Some people have comfort foods. I have comfort books.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would be my primary comfort book, if I had to pick just one. Brett is traveling in the US right now, and told me he found my "Hitchhikers book" in the storage tub at his brother's house, and will bring it back home to me.
Bearing in mind that I have here in the house my leather-bound Hitchhiker's "trilogy", plus a paperback of the 5th book, plus a copy of the original radio scripts, I had to ask which book had been left in the States.
Turns out, it was a big coffee table book I'd purchased - thin, but huge - with color photos (not from the show or movie) and a fun iridescent dust cover.
I had to tell him not to bring it back. Sell it, donate it, find it a good home, but I don't need it with me here in Vietnam.
My love for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made me buy this beautiful book, but we no longer live the "Coffee Table Book lifestyle™!" 😆
I have the text of the book here in the first version I'd ever owned, complete with inscription from my parents (who gave it to me), paint stains, and my own penciled notes in margins.
So that's my go-to comfort book.
And here's where we get back to the coffee part of Coffee Klatch.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent's comfort beverage of choice is tea. He goes on about it almost as much as I launch poetic about coffee. 😆
Maybe tea is just too British for me first thing in the morning. Either way, it seems that even a stranded Earthling trying to make sense of the universe appreciates a reliable brown beverage.
So the questions of the day are:
What's your go-to comfort book? (If you have one.)
And what's your go-to comfort beverage?
I don't know if I have a comfort book. With my ereader, I can pull up several books that I enjoy, and what I need depends on my mood. As for a beverage, I drink mostly water. I mean, occasionally I love a chocolate shake. But as I can't do caffeine, coffee and tea are both out for me. (And I hate hot drinks, so...)
ReplyDeleteI got hardcover copies of Hitchhiker, Restaurant, and Fish at a used book store decades ago (the '80s, maybe the '90s?), but they didn't have Life, the Universe, and Everything, sadly. Did you ever get into Dirk Gently? Those were fun as well, but definitely a different vibe.
Oh yeah! I loved Dirk Gently, but in a different way. I had the paperbacks. I also had a book called "The Salmon of Doubt" which was published posthumously, including everything on his hard drive - essays, Doctor Who scripts, and a handful of chapters of a new book he was working on that he apparently couldn't decide whether to add to Dirk or Hitchhiker! (The new book was going to be titled The Salmon of Doubt).
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