I recently stumbled across a web page on a book club site maintained by my old friend, part-time business partner and, briefly, former roommate John C. from Providence. In it, he has a catalogue of the thousands of books in his personal collection. Among these are many of the volumes I left for him when I moved from RI to Florida in 1997.
I'm glad I gave these books to him. By now they surely would have been lost or sold during the past decade and a half what with the many moves and crisises I've undergone. I hate knowingly leaving a book to a likely disastrous fate, especially in our electronic age where books actually made of paper are becoming more and more rare. With him they are safe.
Here are the ones I recognized. Almost all purchased new by myself between the late '70s to mid '90s.
I'm glad I gave these books to him. By now they surely would have been lost or sold during the past decade and a half what with the many moves and crisises I've undergone. I hate knowingly leaving a book to a likely disastrous fate, especially in our electronic age where books actually made of paper are becoming more and more rare. With him they are safe.
Here are the ones I recognized. Almost all purchased new by myself between the late '70s to mid '90s.
