location: the little library costar: @selinswonderland
"--and the thing is," Alex continued, even though his voice had been the only thing in the air for what felt like the last small eternity other than the quiet thumpy sound of book-sorting and page turning and Selin's occasional notes aloud about what she wanted to do with a particular book, "that it's not like I'm a huge drinker or anything! When your work means that there's always the potential thread of paps around waiting to snap a photo of you getting sloppy, you learn fast not to give them that opportunity. Not in public."
He paused to run his hand over the dust jacket of some volume from the seventies, muttering mostly to himself, "I hate these. The books look so much better without them but nobody ever takes off the dustcoats and throws them out even though I'm sure that's what they were meant for. Why keep a stupid fakey cover instead of letting the book breathe and look nice?"