Smile for Today ~

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill found a fascination in books as material objects and expressed a sentiment familiar to many book lovers:

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them ~ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are.  Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."

~ Churchill and Chartwell