Baggins Book Bazaar

I come from a generation whose primary source of entertainment was not TV, video games or the internet. It was instead reading books. As a child, if I were to ever go on a lengthy car journey, the go to form of in car entertainment would be to bring a book. I don’t want to cover old ground, as I have written about this in the past but I cannot stress how important the local library was during the seventies. Not just for me but my entire family. We would all go, take out multiple books and read them over the following weeks until we had to return them. Books, were a feature of our home and those of my peers. When we finally sold my parents home a few years ago, the most notable and striking aspect of the house clearance was filling 16 substantial boxes with books and trying to find a suitable charitable outlet to take them. Both my parents collections of books, built up over a lifetime. It was a striking statement upon the significance of books in the past and how they are considered nowadays.