Berkeley Book-crawlin'
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annburlingham will be the least bit surprised that my visit with her and pipyn today netted me some good books. First, we had yummy sushi. Then we went to my regular bookstore, where I successfully resisted a book about food science, a half-price copy of Holidays on Ice on CD, and a copy of Naked for six bucks.
Then we went to Other Change of Hobbit and I was sunk. Got Coraline, the Tiptree anthology (loved seeingwild_irises's name on the cover), The Secret Country (ditto pameladean), and Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton, who I like from Usenet and elsewhere but don't really know.
Next,annburlingham gave me an utterly delightful gift: The Barbary Coast, by Herbert Asbury, subtitled "An informal history of the San Francisco underworld". It has a picture of "A madame and some of her girls" on the frontispiece. Fun!
And to round out the day of bookshopping,someotherguy and I walked to Temescal, stopping at the bookstore too see if I could find a book they'd had earlier in the week. It was gone, but I got The Poet's Companion, Gilroy's Garlic Lover's Cookbook, and a Scarpetta mystery I haven't read yet.
Whew. I won't be buying books again any time soon.
Really good to spend time with good people. Good, bookloving people. Fun.
Oh, andporcinea, I almost bought a classic-winnie cookbook for you, but the first recipe I turned to had bacon in it and I just felt so sad for Piglet that I put it down. Silly, I know.
annburlingham will be the least bit surprised that my visit with her and pipyn today netted me some good books. First, we had yummy sushi. Then we went to my regular bookstore, where I successfully resisted a book about food science, a half-price copy of Holidays on Ice on CD, and a copy of Naked for six bucks.Then we went to Other Change of Hobbit and I was sunk. Got Coraline, the Tiptree anthology (loved seeing
wild_irises's name on the cover), The Secret Country (ditto pameladean), and Tooth and Claw, by Jo Walton, who I like from Usenet and elsewhere but don't really know. Next,
annburlingham gave me an utterly delightful gift: The Barbary Coast, by Herbert Asbury, subtitled "An informal history of the San Francisco underworld". It has a picture of "A madame and some of her girls" on the frontispiece. Fun!And to round out the day of bookshopping,
someotherguy and I walked to Temescal, stopping at the bookstore too see if I could find a book they'd had earlier in the week. It was gone, but I got The Poet's Companion, Gilroy's Garlic Lover's Cookbook, and a Scarpetta mystery I haven't read yet.Whew. I won't be buying books again any time soon.
Really good to spend time with good people. Good, bookloving people. Fun.
Oh, and
porcinea, I almost bought a classic-winnie cookbook for you, but the first recipe I turned to had bacon in it and I just felt so sad for Piglet that I put it down. Silly, I know.