I just got the sad word that the used bookstore in nearby Gilroy, CA has lost its lease and will have to vacate soon (I'm not sure when). I was last at the store on the last Sunday in March, and had no idea until I saw something about this on Facebook earlier this past week. The cat from the bookstore now needs to find a new home. This was so sad. I loved going to this store! And the cat was so sweet!
On what will probably the last time I ever got to visit the store (again, I don't know exactly when they are closing), I went looking for one of the books on this list. This is one of the prompts this year on this challenge. I wrote down the titles upon first glancing at the list, since it's a click list (and I didn't want to have click through it more than once). A lot of the books on the list I have already read, and others are hard to find, including Dune (still haven't found any used copies of that one). And there are some books listed that I have never heard of. I ended up finding and buying this book from the list (I also got Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat and The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton that some day).
- No Wind of Blame--Georgette Heyer
- Stories by Katherine Mansfield
- Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio--Pu Songling
- The Pilgrim's Progress--John Bunyan
- The Odd Women--George Gissing
- Smoke and Mirrors--K.D. Halbrook
- The Education of Margot Sanchez--Lilliam Rivera
- Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac--Gabrielle Zevin
2 comments:
Hari OM
Some of the best stories are the ones unheard... YAM xx
It is always sad when a book store closed down...
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