To My Valentine: A Love Note to Books, Movies & Music
For My Valentine, Bobby Crace. Written by Maya Contreras, Editor-in-Chief, The DDD Books are everywhere in our house. They are of course on our three bookshelves (which currently out numbers our furniture, the books have more places to sit then Bobby and I do). They’re on our bathroom floor, on our couch, on top of the refrigerator, and on our window ceils. Bobby always has at least two in his backpack and I always have one for the subway or several on my iPad.
Our books are very different. Non-fiction is my necessity and Bobby is almost strictly fiction. Maya Angelou’s Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now sits snuggly between John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and Philip Roth’s Portney’s Complaint. Bell Hooks’ All About Love: New Visions stares defiantly at Charles Bukowski’s Ham on Ray and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. James Joyce’s Finnegins Wake looks loving from the shelf knowing he will be read again and again by Bobby for the hundreth time.
