I haven’t written much in a while, so this will be a conglomeration of the latest in life.
I’ve ventured around a good bit and found some neat places. I’ll start with bookstores. The first that I actually found (as in, the address did not turn out to be a Jackson-Hewitt tax office) was Book People on Granite Avenue. The place appears to be run by an older lady who I think was born out of the states, but has lived in the area for 40+ years. It was a neat shop with a large selection of books. She was very helpful in the search, and I left with a couple of books, though they had nothing by Somerset Maughm, and there were no copies of War and Peace translated by Maude/Maude. More recently, I visited Chop Suey Books on Cary Street. It was a bit brighter, but the guy behind the counter seemed less knowledgeable, and though nice enough, was not particularly helpful. I liked the place, though, including the concept of selling art in a room upstairs. They had a great selection including a pretty decent spiritual/religious section from which I attained a book by the Dalai Lama. I also purchased Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maughm.
The third of the bookstores that I have been able to find is Fountain Books (also on Cary Street). It was a neat little place and the girl was friendly and seemed like she might have been helpful had I needed any. While they didn’t have a huge selection of books, they were able to order. I liked the area at the front with employee picks listed by the particular employee who chose the books. Last, I visited Black Swan Books on Main Street (farther west than I thought). They had a different personality as each of the former three had had. There were a larger number of books of the categories rare/older/etc. They did have a nicely sized literature section, and I was able to find a copy of War and Peace translated by Maude/Maude! It was bound similarly to the copy I’d started from the FHU library, and I like it a good deal, though it does not have a cloth bookmark as the other did.
With the five books that I purchased from all three of the four stores, I think that I may have achieved my fifty dollars spread between three businesses for the month! Go local business.
That’s all that I have to say for now. It’s actually not, but there are some things that you just shouldn’t risk publishing for all to see.
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