A bonus score...

16 Lighthouse Road along with the other 8 Cedar Cove books arrived today. Boxed and double wrapped. I felt a little like Helene Hanff when she unwrapped a book she received from Marks & Co., Booksellers, swathed with pages of another old book they had ripped to use as wrapping paper. In my case, however, the swaddling was The (Florida) Ledger. Nonetheless, I unfolded the Newspaper with care and read the sections with interest.

I do so love receiving used books from some small private bookseller, and reading words that other eyes have read along with the notations jotted down on the flyleaf by a person unknown to me. As Ms. Hanff wrote: * “….I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages some one long gone has called my attention to.” 

Here, here!

Post Script:

I began reading 16 Lighthouse Road this afternoon, just to get the feel of it, mind you, and before I realized, two hours had passed and I was more than half way through it. I like being in Cedar Cove, and meeting its residents. I think I’ll stay a while.

*Pg 27
84, Charing Cross Road
By Helene Hanff  (1916–1997)
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