Louise PennyMyrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.
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People are constantly judging others by their possessions. It is easy to find out if someone is well-off since they have money, but it’s not so easy to tell if someone is well-educated. That’s why people look at the books on a person’s shelves or their grocery carts. It shows whether or not someone has read widely and if they are smart enough to know what books are important. If they have read, taught, or written anything worthwhile, then they are definitely worth knowing.
Source: Still Life
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