I spent some time rearranging the fiction section today.
You could certainly find something good to read, but there were few unusual novels (or editions of them) on the shelves this holiday weekend.
I took these photos just as we were closing--in a rush I skipped an entire bookshelf of authors A––E.
Also, I didn't photograph the Mystery/Thrillers & Romance books sections.
I posted these original size--you can scroll to the right (on a computer screen), if you're inclined to the pleasure of browsing titles.
I am.
We start with just a wee sliver of Faulkner, top left.
I see I missed the beginning of the Ms too--all those Macs and Mc's.
Glaser died last summer (June 2020) at ninety-one.
From his obit in the NYTimes:
"Milton Glaser was born on June 26, 1929, in the Bronx, to Eugene and Eleanor (Bergman) Glaser, immigrants from Hungary. His father owned a dry-cleaning and tailoring shop; his mother was a homemaker.When Milton was a young boy, an older cousin drew a bird on the side of a paper bag to amuse him. “Suddenly, I almost fainted with the realization that you could create life with a pencil,” he told Inc. magazine in 2014. “And at that moment, I decided that’s how I was going to spend my life.”
The Seven Storey Mountain in fiction — hmm.
ReplyDeleteSo many books! It's like a library there. Most thrift shops here have maybe one or two shelves for books and/or dvds, the rest is clothes, junk jewellery, old curtains (my mum used to buy those and make dresses for us girls) and maybe a few bits and pieces of furniture. Then rows and rows of shelves with unwanted bits and bobs of crockery, glassware, pots and pans and so on, which I love browsing through.
ReplyDeleteWhat lovely variety! Good to rearrange them too, then your regular customer will see something they missed.
ReplyDeleteMICHAEL: Heh, I didn't meant to imply Seven Storey Mountain is fiction though.
ReplyDeleteI often put literary memoirs and the like in with Fiction and Literature if I think people won't look in Religion/Spirituality, etc.
You can just barely see Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is in Fic/Lit too--tow to the right of Franzen's Purity.
Love the story of Milton and the paper bag. I’m always in awe of people who have such clarity of interest at a young age.
ReplyDeleteBINK: me too!
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