@nyrbclassics Booooo to this

@nyrbclassics Sorry, what? ". . . But they DO send a signal to everyone who walks into our home that we are a Person Who Reads." What a load of old bollocks.

@nyrbclassics False

@nyrbclassics 🙄

@nyrbclassics What the?

@nyrbclassics "Standing in the middle of the room, he ran his eyes around the shelves and spread his soul over all of them." The correct take by Machado de Assis.

@nyrbclassics Demonstrably false!

@nyrbclassics That's one of the strangest things anyone has ever said on Twitter.

@nyrbclassics Depends on how you read them.

@nyrbclassics My nightstand disagrees!

@nyrbclassics "Why do we keep our books?" Because... we love them?

@nyrbclassics lmao this guy lets people walk into his home

@nyrbclassics A very odd assertion indeed.

@nyrbclassics @WVUPRESS Yeah. As I said earlier, utter twaddle (but, alas, the sort of twaddle that many editors—or are they AI overlords?—lap up).

@nyrbclassics & we do it for others? What? Then why are my best books on shelves in my bedroom where few are welcome?

@nyrbclassics yeah this is just wrong

@nyrbclassics What a load of old books.