Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat in the Bookshop

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat by Ernest Bramah

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." - Virginia Woolf

 

The Passenger in the Bookshop

The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

"The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written." - Cormac McCarthy