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Is it the butterfly effect if watching Ted Lasso results in me buying a book named after a John Prine song? Or is it just Apple TV?

(I only watched the pilot of the show. I’ll go back to it after I finish this.)

The best books are usually found in places that make you actively fear for your life. Yknow, crypts, dungeons, tombs, used book stores…

Have I ever told you how much I love used book stores? I bought two works today; a history of the Siberian Husky, and an old hymnal for my mother.

How many lives have you lived before this? Did you sit on a dusty shelf, or rather a worn pew. How many hands have touched you? How many lives have you touched? Were you held, or did you hold? Perhaps both.

What led you here? Were you loved? Cherished by a grandmother, whom the earth has reclaimed. Or were you cast aside, clutter to be dealt with. Perhaps both.

You are with me know. Loved and safe in my home. My mother will love you, as I do. I hope your time with us is good. I hope you enjoy it. And one day, I hope you are returned to another used book store. I hope your journey continues. Keep touching lives.

$6 is nothing, but you are everything.

Ι've checked most of them and they are legit

the delivery of thrifted/pre-loved books arrived today and my mother cannot understand why i am so elated and excited.

My latest additions to my collection of books. I was very please to find the Catch-22.

Barts Books is a home converted into a bookshop in Ojai, California. The outdoor section is my favorite but honestly I could spend hours wandering the whole place. (Also if you do letterbox hunting there’s an adorable one here)

I write my name on back of the cover of every book I own. I dog ear my books. I annotate the margins in pen. My books are filled with my thoughts end evidence that I have read them. Proof that my books have been used. Proof that they are loved. Because to be loved is to be changed.