“I do not demand a gin palace at every corner, merely that it is written into the constitution of the nation that every village must, as a public service and a monument to more sensible civilisations, maintain a pub.”
— From In the Country by Kenneth Allsop 📚
Should your bookshelves reflect the person you are now, or should they encapsulate all the versions of you from earlier in your life?
John Naughton’s review of An Ugly Truth, a new book about Facebook, makes it sound like essential reading. Next on my list after I’ve finished Charles Arthur’s Social Warming.
