Went up to Library today to get a few books to read on the trip. I was mainly looking for Henning Mankell , but they were all out on loan or reserved. Then I realised that at least 3 of them are in my library basket to return. Went up to the Merchant Of Fairness the local second hand bookshop.
Martin, Sally and Michael in the Merchant all said they knew they had NO Henning Mankell. I wondered how they knew. It seems as if they had someone in yesterday asking. Had a brief grump and disagreement with them about the readability of Harry Potter books and quality of HP movies then left. (You can guess my views on the hype and tripe of HP).
I went over to the new bookshop (not a new book shop - a shop for new books) and bumped into Damian and then Janet. Janet came back home for a cup of coffee. She kindly supplied some expensive Yo-Yo biscuits from that expensive cake shop near the bookshop. Janet lived in HK for about a year about 2 years ago, so we got out the HK map and started scribbling stuff to do and go to and such while we listened to the new Mary Coughlan CD she bought along - signed too.
I was looking for books I could read and then leave for Bridget to read. Bridget had complained about the lack of feminist, political books in english available in Kaohsiung! So I tried to look for some feminist, melbourne, political books.
I noticed the book by Kate Lance about the pearling boat called Redhill or something. I remember her telling me about it a year ago. I havent got a link for her book site yet and I'm ashamed to say I havent bought the book yet. This is a paper Kate wrote. Then I noticed Carmel Bird's new book Cape Grimm on the other shelf. I somehow felt a bit famous myself standing there between two books by people I knew. I stood for a while willing some of the fame to rub off. I had best go back and buy those two books if I want anything to rub off.
A list of books I bought to give to Bridget (and I'll read them on the trip)
Quarterly Essay - Made in England the David Malouf essay
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton
The History Wars - Stuart Macintyre & Anna Clark
Found a reference on web to Kate's book Reconstructing Redbill:From Pearls to Peace
Monday, March 22, 2004
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment