glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grand Haven Book Haul It is in the flow of existence 5:08 PM Wednesday evening. This morning I made a sudden decision to go to Grand Haven to look at used books. On the way I stopped at Brother Tim's place to see if he wanted to go with me. Tim had just gotten home from the Holland Farmer's Market when I stop by his place. Tim said Sure he would go with me to Grand Haven to visit used books stores. So we drove to Grand Haven, but before getting there we stopped at Echo's Thrift Store so I could look at their used books. I found these three used books- "Rites of Passage" a novel by William Golding "The Paper Men" a novel by William Golding "The King's English: Adventures of an Independent Bookseller" Memoir by Betsy Burton After checking out Echo's Thrift Store we headed north to Grand Haven. When we got into the city of Grand Haven we went first to Grand Haven City Library to visit their own used bookstore. This used books store sales used books cheap twenty-five cents for paperbacks and fifty cents for hardbacks. Carol and I try to visit this library used books store at least once a year. I found these used books there today-here is a list of what I bought to add to our book collection- "The Shadow Of The Sun" a novel by A.S. Byatt "Two Lives: Reading Turgenev And My House In Umbria" by William Trevor "Marianne Moore: A Literary Life" by Charles Molesworth "Blossom" Crime novel by Andrew Vachss "Down In The Zero" Crime novel by Andrew Vachss "Flood" Crime novel by Andrew Vachss "Daniel Martin" a novel by John Fowles "Jaipur Nama: Tales from the Pink City" travel by Giles Tillotson "Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston "War Trash" a novel by Ha Jin "The Crazed" a novel by Ha Jin "Another" a novel by Ann Beattie "Genesis" a novel by Jim Crace "Time Will Darken It" a novel by William Maxwell "I Am No One You Know" Stories by Joyce Carol Oates "Falling Slowly" a novel by Anita Brookner "Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter" biography by Enrique Hank Lopez After checking out the Grand Haven City Library used books store we went to a used bookstore there in Grand Haven to look at their used books/Booked for the Season. I bought there these three used books- "The Four-Gated City (Children Of Violence" a novel by Doris Lessing "Memoirs of an Anti-Semite" Stories by Gregor Von Rezzori "While England Sleeps" a novel by David Leavitt While in Grand Haven we stopped for lunch and then headed back to Holland. On the way home we spotted a Goodwill thrift store so we stopped to look at their used books. I found these two used books there- "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" a novel by Milan Kundera "Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, And All The Ships At Sea" a novel by Richard Bausch On the way back to Holland we stopped at a park called Riverside Park and we also stopped at where one of his two brother's lives just to say Hi. So has gone by this day. Existence keeps speeding by full force. I will close to look at my books and prepare for the coming darkness. 5:48 p.m. - 2015-09-02 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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