Friday, November 08, 2002
I had to return a long overdue book (which I had given up on) to the Oakville Library, and discovered that the Oakville Friends of the Library were holding their semi-annual book sale today. I picked up some interesting titles there last time I was there, and for $1 per pound of books it seemed hard to go wrong.
So I walked out with 8.5lbs of books. This may seem like a lot of books, but in fact I only walked away with 4 rather heavy tomes, and they are hefty in more ways than one. I picked up a relatively recent 3-volume full edition of Edward Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire". I figure that will keep me busy for a while. ;-) The fourth book was a copy of Paul Theroux's "The Pillars of Hercules". I grabbed that one because it's his tour of the Mediterranean, so I figured it would be a good read prior to hitting the south of France again. I was hoping to find a travel book about the Virgin Islands (which we have pretty much decided to head to immediately after Xmas), but no luck there.
I almost walked away with a copy of "The Fatal Shore", Robert Hughes' history of Australia, but I was afraid my backpack couldn’t take the strain of another heavy tome. If it is still there on Monday, I'll grab it. ;-)
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