The smell of used books

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A used bookstore has its own unique smell. Its both offensive and
delicious all at once. This morning after breakfast at the Egg Toss Cafe we popped into What Goes Around, a little shop filled to the brim with stacks of old books. Heaven!!

I'm a big fan of Pearl S. Buck's work so I was thrilled to find a trilogy of books she wrote under the nom de plume John Sedges. I also grabbed "Reading Lolita in Tehran". A copy of Lolita was also on the shelf and I was tempted to buy it but I've watched the movie and so I'm familiar with the story. It's intriguing but disturbing so I decided to pass.

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