If a book's worth reading, it's worth buying... TWICE

I like to think I am clever, at least of average intelligence. I can hold my own in a conversation, and recently answered 6 questions in the sports round of a quiz. Six in the sports round, all the while I was pretending that they mattered. 

Anyway, I just purchased the biography of Truman Capote by Gerald Clarke. It has a picture of Philip Seymour Hoffman on the front, and as you can see says he starred in the film at the top. I started reading it, as I love a good biography. It all felt familiar, like London, I felt like I had read it before. 127 pages in I realised I have read it before. In fact, the copy I purchased from the second hand bookshop is in fact the copy I sold them back about 8 months ago in a ruthless purge of books, from my overflowing bookshelves. I sold it to them for £1.00 and purchased it back for £3.75 plus a large coffee and an average cake. Great, I am exactly £10 down on life.

I know it was my copy, because when I reached page 127, I found this post it note reminder, in a very familiar handwriting, to a former colleague. Fairly confident, I am £10 down and in big trouble because if it was inside the book I donated, I did not call him, no question.

Anyway, the book is brilliant, the film is captivating, and the book is worth buying TWICE.

This quote from page 127, is my favourite... Newton describing Capote

"You aren't a human being; not a mere human being, I mean," he later added. " I've been sure of that all along. You only have all the conceivable charm of a human being, but in fact you are a supernatural helper in patent leather pumps."

Anyway, I am going to say that Capote may well have done something very similar to buying the same copy of the same book twice. Have you ever done something a little mindless that has perhaps made you chuckle. Share in
the comments below, if you're brave enough, we could all do with a chuckle!

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