... it. -Search the Seven Hills by Barbara Hambly. This was the real jewel, since it's a wonderful mystery by an author I love that's virtually impossible to find. I don't see our cheap bookbuying habit ending any time in the near future, even as we find ourselves hip-deep in mediocre paperbacks. Because out for every ten books we sorta wanted to read sometime, there's the irresistable prospect of ...
... 2000) • Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Dog – 1958) • Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra – 1956) • Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli – 2004) • Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon – 1930) • Robert Hass (Bookbuying in the Tenderloin – 1967) • Bob Kaufman (No More Jazz at Alcatraz) • Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men – 1980) • Jack Kerouac (On the Road – 1957) • Gus Lee (China Boy – 1991)...
Has international shipping suddenly gotten more dicey? For years I've been buying from various European publishers and retailers and have never, to my recollection, not had a book arrive safely at my door. But over the past month, no fewer than three books -- one from PS Publishing, two from Ex Occidente -- have failed to arrive. Now, I've bought a great many books from PS, and only rarely ...
...: bonni in chinatown sat: auntie seng till evening i can't remember doing anything particular, OH ANG PAO, family and harry potter (which was good, because i can't remember the book but can remember the general plotlines) sunday: bookbuying, zhiyi, den + riceball + a lot of trekking, auntie seng and trinity's birthday (and patrick! and everyone!) monday: work ha ha ha. certificate expired.
