“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.”

—  Louise Penny, book Still Life

Source: Still Life

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Canadian woman writer 1958

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