BLM Dispatch #23 - Summer Reading
It was a bountiful summer of reading, these books connecting me to friends and places near and far.
A visit to The Strand bookstore in New York brought me serendipitously to early hardcover editions of The Pine Barrens and Coming Into the Country and a signed copy of Macfarlane’s new book. Fifteen blocks south in lower manhattan, I picked up Things Become Other Things at McNally Jackson Books.
The Way Around came with me on a plane to Minneapolis, and then heartbreakingly stayed on the plane when I left it in the seat pocket along with two sheets of scribbled notes and dozens of dog eared pages and underlined sentences. Upon arriving to my sister-in-laws home in the Twin Cities, I walked to Magers & Quinn in Uptown and bought it again.
Vromans in Pasadena and City Lights in San Francisco rounded out the other connections, which further proves that the real reason to ever travel is to visit bookstores (and, for gods sake, MORE TIME TO READ).
Dropping in some capsule reviews for those who might be interested in picking up a new book or three…
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