glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a used books haul or road to serfdom It is 4:33 PM Wednesday afternoon here in West Michigan. Today has been a day of buying used books. I got up this morning around 8 o'clock AM. I got up ate breakfast and then we had devotions/prayed. After we prayed I had to do an errand and on the way home I stopped at a local Goodwill to look at their used books and bought these used books- 'The Eustace Diamonds' A Novel By Anthony Trollope 'A Stranger In This World: Stories' by Kevin Canty 'The Easter Parade' A Novel by Richard Yates 'The Song Of The Dodo" Island Biogeography In An Age Of Extinction' by David Quammen 'Mortals' A Novel by Norman Rush When I got home from my errand and visiting Goodwill Carol wanted to drove to Grand Haven to drop off cookies at a elderly widower from her church who is now 94 years and is to weak to live his condo/come to church. Carol sat next to this old gentleman for years and wanted to bring him fresh baked cookies to tell him she is thinking praying for him/the fellow's grandson lives with him to make sure he is OK. So Carol and I drove to Grand Haven which is not far from Holland/Grand Haven is north of us and it was a nice drive sunny sky filled with big puffy clouds. Carol and I drove to her friend's place in a large area of very nice expensive condos/she went inside the condo and I sat in the car reading from 'A Stranger In This World: Stories' by Kevin Canty. Carol soon came to the car and we drove over to Grand Haven Public Library/Loutit Library to check out their used books store Cheap Stacks (we visit Cheap Stacks at least once a year to search for used books/fifty cents for hardbacks and twenty-five cents for paperbacks/we usually buy A LOT OF USED BOOKS at Cheap Stacks! I will now list the used books I bought today at Cheap Stacks- 'Enderby' A Novel By Anthony Burgess 'Confessions of a Philosopher: A Journey Through Western Philosophy' memoir By Bryan Magee 'When She Was Good' A Novel by Philip Roth 'His Illegal Self' A Novel by Peter Carey 'The Chemistry of Tears' A novel by Peter Carey 'The Iron Tracks' A Novel by Aharon Applefeld Translated From The Hebrew By Jeffrey M. Green 'I Wear The Black Hat Grappling With Villains (Real And Imagined)' By Chuck Klosterman 'Signals of Distress' A Novel by Jim Crace 'Altered States' a novel by Anita Brookner 'The Rules Of Engagement' A Novel by Anita Brookner 'He Dreams What Is Going On Inside His Head: Ten Years of Writing' essays by Jonathan Cott 'Patriotic Gore: Studies In The Literature Of The American Civil War' by Edmund Wilson 'Stars and Bars' A Novel by William Boyd After we visited Cheap Stacks we drove over to another store a Resale Store that we visit looking for used books when we are in Grand Haven. I found these used books at this resale shop (in this diary entry I am not listing ALL the used books my wife bought today)- 'The Dog' A Novel by Joseph O'Neill 'The Road To Serfdom' Text And Documents THE DEFINITIVE EDITION by F. A. Hayek Edited by Bruce Caldwell 'Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life' by Edward O. Wilson 'Fugitive Days' A Memoir by Bill Ayers 'The Magic Mountain' a novel by Thomas Mann 'Prussian Blue' A Bernie Gunther Novel by Philip Kerr After visiting this Grand Haven Resale Shop (all the money from this store goes to feed the poor) we visited a Grand Haven Goodwill Store a block down from this resale shop. I found these used books at this Goodwill Store- 'The Men Who Ruled India' by Philip Mason 'Introducing Evangelical Theology' by Daniel J. Treier When we left Goodwill we drove home and we were home by 3:10 PM. We were gone around four hours. It is now 5:16 PM and I am beat so I will close. I have been going ALL day! and that is not normal for me. 5:24 p.m. - 2021-09-15 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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