Taking myself out for a BIG adventure today, I went to the local used bookstore. It's a bookstore right out of a movie, long and narrow, bookshelves to the ceiling, books piled up everywhere. The lone person in the store, a slight, professorial-looking man, greeted me, my book list in hand.
He replied by tapping the side of his head.
"Wow!" I sighed.
He took my list and turned on his heel. I followed behind. He led me from one book to the next, pulling them off packed shelves with surprising speed.
Here are my NEW used books:
- The Biography of Alice B. Toklas by Linda Simon
- Genius, The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- Amazing Grace, A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
And now, I have a confession to make. As I write this post, copying Amazon links to the books, I suddenly realize that the Alice B. Toklas biography I bought is not the autobiography by Gertrude Stein. Uh-oh! That's what I thought I was buying. Silly me. Well, I suspect I'll still enjoy reading it.
And before diving into any of them, the one I'm most looking forward to is the Kathleen Norris book.
But first, I will finish The Known World by Leonard P. Jones. I only started it a couple of nights ago and I still have most of the novel to read. It's an interesting book about a black man who owned slaves in Virginia of the 1850s. I am enjoying reading his prose.
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