Wallowing in books...

[fajrdrako]

What a lovely morning! maaseru and I went to the book sale held by the Friends of the National Library at St. Laurent shopping centre this morning. It was wonderful; one of the best such book sales I've ever seen. Most books were $1 or $2 each; some were more. My pièce de résistance was 412: a wonderful book I am still excited about, Vézelay: The Great Romanesque Church by Veronique Rouchon Mouilleron. Gorgeous. There's detail and description of every carving, with elucidation of their meanings. Brilliant visual detail of 12th century clothing and artifacts - we even see the belt loops in a miller's kilt.

The other books I got were:

• Winnie Ille Pu by A.A.Milne (Winnie the Pooh in Latin. I have it in hardcover, but it's easier to carry around in paperback.)


• Crackdown by Val McDermid


• Poisoned Cherries by Quintin Jardine


• The Owls of Gloucester by Edward Marston


• The Distant Echo by Val McDermid


• Where Evil Sleeps by Valerie Wilson Wesley


• Hello Bunny Alice by Laura Wilson


• Ladies' Man by John Ramster


• Death's Own Door by Andrew Taylor

You might guess from these, quite rightly, that I've been in the mood to read mysteries lately.

• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. I've read this one twice, but I didn't own a copy. Now I do. Too bad they didn't have A Thread of Grace.


• The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex by Mark Morton


• The Age of Chivalry by the National Geographic Society (pretty, pretty picures)


• Illuminated Manuscripts: Medieval Hunting Scenes - "the Hunting Book" by Gaston Phoebus by Gabriel Bise (more pretty, pretty pictures)

Now... to get ready for Beulah's 75th birthday party.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It sounds as if - the rule is, there is no rule! Libraries can exist for any number of purposes with all sorts of types of funding.

Which I suppose is more or less true here, though I really haven't looked closely at the way the OPL is set up, and I should. I bet there's information on their web pages, which I look at daily - but not for that kind of information, it's to look for books and (often) renew the ones I have already.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

True, but the funding is extremely important down to the detail, as we have found through our court case.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I bet!