Q is for…

April 20, 2016April 4, 2016 / akarras823 / 1 Comment

Quinto Books

In London there is an area around Charing Cross Road that is loaded with used bookstores. It’s not as packed as it was when I first visited in 1995, but there are still a fair amount still around. Quinto Books is one of them.

Quinto Books

I don’t mind mentioning that we came home from this vacation barely making our luggage weight because of all the books we bought. Not only did we spend a serious amount of hours in Blackwell in Oxford, we also spent the better part of a day knocking around Quinto’s and others like it on Charing Cross. Kosta was looking for history (Ancient Greek or WWII) and music books, while I was intent upon handsome old volumes of fiction and life in Tudor England. We each came away happy, as you can see.

Heaven!

Heaven part 2!

My Cryptic Message from the Universe…

March 9, 2016 / akarras823 / Leave a comment

Remember last week when I showed you that amazing book donation we received?

The riveting 1974 page-turner Weeds of Canada.

Well the Universe is trying to tell us something because this was donated today:

That’s right. Now we have two.

Have you ever heard of anything so weird? I’m wondering if any of my Canuck friends (Mary, Caitlin or Mary Ann) are having possible weed issues? Probably not in March, but remember this summer, I’m your go-to person.

I feel like the Oracle at Delphi just gave me a cryptic message that one day I will curse in anger: “Zounds! If only I had kept that Weeds of Canada book and taken in seriously! For here I am lost in the wilds of Saskatchewan and don’t know if this leafy spurge is edible! Whatever shall I do now?”

Highly prized donated books

March 3, 2016 / akarras823 / 2 Comments

We get a crazy amount of donations at the library. We get all kinds: fiction, cookbooks, self-help, art books, foreign language materials, all kinds. Some aren’t so great, but every now and then you get a gem like this:

Who wants to start the bidding?