Books are life; Emily wholeheartedly believed this to be true. Perhaps what she collected was a little strange, but it upped the ante and finding a book that met all the criteria brought her immense satisfaction. No one else truly understood—it was honestly probably the most pointless thing to search for instead of limited or first edition copies since they were so commonly distributed—but there was something immensely magical when everything aligned to manifest from the list in her journal onto a shelf (or realistically, a pile in her living room).