A Comfy Chair & a Good Book
"A room without books is like a body without a soul.”–Cicero
We agree. However, we have heard about folks who view books as "clutter." If you have the misfortune to live with someone like this and they are not swayed by the Cicero quote, perhaps you can repurpose your paperbacks. Artist David Karoff has this chair on display at Myopic Books in Providence, RI. It is made of recyled mass market paperbacks, drilled through and placed on a rebar frame. And it is probably not so comfy.
But then again, perhaps you can make a case for book shopping as a Magical Mystery Hunt of sorts. All of these treasures and oddments have been found in used books: "thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby’s tooth, a diamond ring and a handwritten poem by Irish writer Katharine Tynan Hickson." Read more.
