“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
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“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
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Antonia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Antonia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Crime, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Science fiction
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