Spring Reading

- February 25, 2006 in Outing -

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Spring Reading
Spring Reading, by jhary

Autumn and I went to the Friends of the Library 39th Annual Old Book Sale today at the Center City Park in Macon. Mostly there was what you’d expect: a bunch of junk. However, there were some treasures, like Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King, a novel I’ve been wanting to read for quite a while now. I also found a couple of Stanislaw Lem novels about his intrepid space explorer Ijon Tichy. The only Lem I’ve read so far is Solaris, but that novel blew me away. These should be fun, too. The other sf book I found was George Alec Effinger’s Irrational Numbers, a collection of short stories. I can’t say much more about this right now, other than I remember reading about him somewhere. The rest is non-fiction, like essays on Dryden and tragedy; Martin Buber’s I and Thou; William H. McNeill’s Plagues and Peoples; and Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling. Not a bad day. Thanks for taking me, A.

One Comment

  1. JenPack on the February 27, 2006 remarked #

    Oh, I miss the old book sale. Especially the last day when they give you a paper sack and let you fill it up for a few dollars.

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