I like to go out and find things I didn’t know I was looking for. It’s how I find most of the books I end up buying, and the two novels and a record I’ve brought home with me just now. I’d walked out restlessly into the rain that’s now fallen all day. Summer rain …
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For the Love of Secondhand Books: A Continuation
A second meander around some nearby bookshelves, which are almost ready for Christmas. I’m almost ready for Christmas here. To my partner Sarah’s amusement, once I’d finished my work on Friday, I went down to the Oxfam shop nearest to where we live and did what she calls my Christmas shopping. Mostly second hand books, …
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For the Love of Secondhand Books: A Digression
It’s a perfect example of what it is, a secondhand book. It’s got other well used books on its cover, it’s on a ‘vintage’ imprint and I bought it from a secondhand bookshop. It is also, by the way, a perfect book. Tom Hanks says it as well as I ever could in his review …
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Buying LPs again
A memory from August 2013 It’s started. After a 23 year gap I’m buying LPs again. Not that I’ve got a turntable mind. That won’t come ’til next week. But it’s ordered. For months, possibly years, I’ve been magnetically pulled towards any turntables I’d happen to see when we’ve been in town shopping. Or rather …
