Funky little bookstore

[Rhys]

So I discovered this funky little bookstore that is near my house.
Fantastic and eclectic selection of used books including a first edition hardcover of CJ Cherryh's Merchanter's Luck...

I like funky bookstores...I mean I really like Borders and B&N but they only tend to carry the popular titles...

and as an aside...Laurell K Hamilton has a new book coming out

ooooooo I am in heaven...

 

[Rambling Rose]

My admiration for you grows.




Make a little room for it. Some shutters to let in the light, maybe?

 

[Rhys]

My admiration for you grows.
make a little room for it. Some shutters to let in the light, maybe?

I have over 5000 books. It makes for difficulty in moving, much less finding wall space. Right now, the potshelves are overflowing...

as for light...no no...there are things in here that go *poof* when exposed to sunlight...

 

[Rhys]

Found another one...

Called Albion books...cool little place lots of trouble I could get into!

 

[PrincessSalome]

Keep going! My town used to have a funky little book store, but no more. Barnes and Noble and that's it. It was like "You've Got Mail" without the love story and happy ending.

When I'm depressed I have "book store therapy," I just go by myself and read (and buy too much). I love to go to the Children's section. My neice and nephew are very spoiled. Children's books cover a lot of serious topics, but everyone is always okay. The art helps too. Ooooh, new thread idea!

 

[Rhys]

My admiration for you grows.




Make a little room for it. Some shutters to let in the light, maybe?

kick me.

drop bricks on my head
(lord knows others have to)

I just fucking *got* this...

I am a slow child...be patient with me

 

[Rhys]

The booklist of ill gotten gains:

The Science fiction writers handbook

The Sword Maiden by Susan King (yes I freely admit I read romance novels so fucking sue me)

The Annubis Gates by Tim Powers

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler..

 

[Svedish_Chef]

I just fucking *got* this...

I am a slow child...be patient with me

There is slow... and there is Rhys.

 

[Rambling Rose]

Re: kick me

*kick*

 

[Gawd]

I'm something of an Author. Have you read My Book? It's a top seller. Even though Gabriel snuck in and took all the sex out before it hit the shelves. The Song of Solomon used to make Larry Flynt look like Jerry Fallwell. Well. Jerry Fallwell is a bad example. You don't want to see what he does behind closed doors when the thinks no one is looking. Omnipresence is not all it's cracked up to be.

 

[ExLimey]

I spent the better part of my college career visiting tons of used book stores around LA looking for research material (history major). Luckily I had a good job because I usually picked up 10-12 books at a time mostly off the subject I was writing about.

One day soon I will be converting a room in my house into a "study" (big leather chair, dark woodwork, bookshelves as far as the eye can see...)

 

[Rhys]

There is slow... and there is Rhys.

Indeed. I do live in my own state of oblivion...

Its called the Kingdom of Fuck...I'm nominally the scribe there...

 

[Rhys]

Re: Re: kick me

*kick*

 

[Rhys]

I'm something of an Author. Have you read My Book? It's a top seller..

As a matter fact, I have mate. Never saw such a tome of Man's inhumanity toward man...

and that Paul guy...he had issues...enough to fill a magazine rack.

 

[Gawd]

He's into whip me beat me games, loves to be stretched on the rack. And he was such a mysoginist in life, too. Who would have guessed that he'd be calling Mary Magdalene "Mistress?"

 

[Rhys]

He's into whip me beat me games, loves to be stretched on the rack. And he was such a mysoginist in life, too. Who would have guessed that he'd be calling Mary Magdalene "Mistress?"

I would have thought he was licking Salome's boots as well.

 

[Dillinger]

I love funky little book stores too... especially used book stores. I travel a lot and always try and find such places wherever I am. I have found a wonderful one in Boulder. I found a great little bookstore in San Francisco - new books, not used - but that's where I picked up my copy of Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates.

My best experience was in Rochester, Minnesota - completely unexpected... I've written about this on the boards a couple times - I came across a rare copy of a Crowley manuscript - Minnesota, of all places.

Book stores are one of the things in life that are true and good.