lorri giovinco-harte

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I went into a used bookstore the other day and found a hardcover edition of a James Joyce anthology. It’s not like I haven’t read the stories in the collection; I fell in love with classic Irish authors well before I ever met a single person from Ireland. Still, the book is in excellent condition and this is Ireland, after all – don’t I need some Joyce?

The purchase got me thinking about why I buy books that I’ve already read. I’m probably not going to reread the stories (although I did feel the need to attempt Ulysses again on the plane ride over, but that’s the subject of an entirely different post). So why buy the book?

Back in the states, I owned a huge collection of books. My husband and I moved a few times after we married, and I had to listen to a great deal of hemming and hawing about having to pack up and transport the heavy cartons, but I just couldn’t part with any of them. It didn’t matter that I had read them all; the Read the rest of this entry »