It’s May and lots of us are graduating! A book we always sell around this time of year is This Is Water, by David Foster Wallace. It’s actually a printed speech he gave in 2005 – a commencement address for the graduating class of Kenyon College. It was, as the book points out, the only [...]
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Fish in water
May 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Gift Books
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spring cleaning
May 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gift Books
Does anybody recognize the room in this picture? I hope not, because if it’s recognizable then it means it still looks messy. I was recently given the task of cleaning it up – a task that involved no small amount of dust, sweat, tears, etc, and so for that reason if not any others, I [...]
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Journals
December 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Gift Books
We received some really special journals the other day. I was familiar with them, but had always been intimidated by how beautiful they were. I thought to myself: How could I ever mess it up with my handwriting? Would my thoughts be eloquent enough? A customer came in today looking for a copy of The [...]
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I am planning everyone’s Christmas this year!
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Gift Books
These are the books that I think that everyone should get for Christmas!!! These are not in any particular order. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks City of Refuge by Tom Piazza The Little Book by Selden Edwards December by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop Child 44 by [...]
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