August 10, 2016
The ‘kindfulness’ of bookstore signs
For this first in a series to be continued, three bookstores signs – coincidentally, all from Powell Books, in Portland, Oregon. Where we find a recommendation for my old nemesis…
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July 27, 2016
Oregon epilogue: Sometimes A Great Notion
Heading back to the East Coast, I leave behind the novel I finished on the way West – a bit of a “throw away” book: “L’homme intérieur”, a book offered…
July 25, 2016
Bookstore animals
I had read rumors of cats in the bookstores: a sign announced an “Attack Cat On Duty” at both Book Bin I visited, in Salem and Corvallis. Rose, the attack cat of…
July 24, 2016
My frontier for this trip
When I reached Prineville in the late afternoon, there was no bookstores to be seen, though there were books in one of the windows of the block-long “Neat Repeat” store….
July 23, 2016
A parenthesis… or not
When I left Klamath Falls this morning, the bookstore, Basin Book Traders, was still closed; a lone reader sat on the bench placed outside the strip-mall store. So, I thought, this…
July 22, 2016
Tournier spotting in Eugene
The table outside J Michaels Books, in downtown Eugene, looked promising (the anniversary edition of Eloise’s adventures!); the carefully curated collection inside confirms the promise. For the first time since I…
July 21, 2016
Eat, sleep, read, and a talking raven
A hand-written note at the Cloud and Leaf sent me on my next journey: it mentioned the owner of the Cannon Beach Book Co who liked a book so much that she sold it…
July 20, 2016
Incipit for a trip
So we start this book roamin’ at the margin of these United States: three blocks from the Pacific Ocean, at the Cloud and Leaf, in the small coastal town of Manzanita, Oregon. The…
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