Someone who owned this must have died, and whoever inherited it, realizing the number of Dan Brown and Lillian Jackson Braun novels this was keeping off the bookcase, donated it. If I weren't too poor to buy good books (the going rate on even a used copy of Angels & Demons is $40 because people are so unwilling to part with them; many collectors won't even let you remove theirs from the safety of a monitored study room) I wouldn't have to settle for shtuff like this. Well, somebody named Mencken (whoever) thinks this guy's ok, and everything's pretty short, so it shouldn't be that bad.
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Truly, it's difficult to bear: the retreat of New Jersey bookstores into the unreckonable distance. By the year of my birth, used bookstores had already disappeared from even the most affluent NJ cities. Town-center bookstores followed soon after, and then the children's bookstores, like Christopher's (where we first met Pickles, the firecat). Now, finally, the Short Hills mall bookstore (a Borders) has gone, too, and the people (though they can no longer afford books, anyway, and admit to the inutility of bookstores in their lives) weep, and rend their garments. But, Chris! Take heart! Make a note in your torture alums address book! For I will leave you my first-edition, hardcover Dave Eggers when I die. (When I reunite my soul with the blissful souls of all former bookstores--and New Jersey's halcyon past.)
PS--That is a beautiful book, and thank you for this blog.
have you read "the return" by conrad?
thank you for making all my dreams with this blog come true!
I have the two of you to thank for this blog
only you can make self-publishing dreams come true (or truer if you have multiple blogs)
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