Dashiell Hammett, Alexander Dumas, Homer (the blind Greek guy, not Homer Simpson), Georges Simenon, Sue Grafton, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol — these are authors whose books I automatically buy when I see them at tag sales and flea markets.
If …
I’ve been to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst a couple of times, and I admit I am intrigued by the reclusive Belle of Amherst, though I have never been able to make heads or tails of her enigmatic poetry.…
I got a deal on a copy of The Sixties by Edmund Wilson at the Whately Antiquarian Book Center, marked down from $35 to a buck.
Who knew the journals of this crusty old gentleman could be such fun? There …
The bad news is that the Whately Antiquarian Book Center is closing. I can’t tell you how many hours of enjoyment I have had from the hundreds of books I purchased there.
The good news is they’re offering a lot …
I’m reading my 20th Spencer novel by Robert B. Parker, and while I have found that some of them are positively preposterous, and all are very formulaic, I still enjoy reading about Spencer beating up thugs, making love to Susan …
I just finished my 17th Spenser mystery by Robert B. Parker — ‘Silent Night.’ Coincidentally, it’s the last one he wrote, or rather co-wrote. He was working on it when he died and Helen Brann, his literary agent for 32 …
I was very sad to learn that the Whately Antiquarian Book Center is being sold and will be out of business in January. It’s been on the market for some time, and there was some hope someone would buy it …
I’m enjoying a book I picked up many years ago at a tag sale called ‘A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman.’
It was one of those books I thought I might read one day and …