Book porn!

[misslj_author]

I just borrowed from mum, her box of books called "Gordon Classic Library." A bit of digging around the internet tells me these books were published in the 1930s, and were for the Australian and New Zealand book buying market. Mum tells me she used some of these books when she was studying English Literature at high school.

I've always loved this set of books. They're *beautifully* bound - dark red faux leather, real gilt page edges, very fine paper with dark type. The bindings are strong and the covers are midway between a traditional paperback and hardback. They're not very large, perhaps half the size of a normal paperback, but they have a looooot of pages to make up for that. Plus, they smell like old, antique books, which is just awesome. Especially as they are old, antique books!

When I was a kid, I think I read this copy of "Little Women" more than a dozen times. I used to sort the books around, alphabetical by title then alphabetical by author. I remember the box used to live on top of my upright piano in the wide hallway of dad's house. This box of books has travelled all over the city with mum, from house to house, flat to flat. I'm really glad she kept them, and so is she.

Anyhoo, because books are one of the reasons we're all here, I'm sharing photos of the box and books. Onwards, beneath the cut!









And just for something a little different, an adorable (in my opinion, anyway,) photo of my cat, Castiel, Kitty of the Lord, hamming it up for the camera.

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Yeah, there's a couple there I haven't heard of outside their inclusion in the box. Ian's got a box from his mum, too, my mum tells me, but she doesn't remember what books are in it, just that they're different to this box.