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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 5:17:59 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Nov 5, 2012 10:58:40 GMT -5
I read the preview pages Kracker. Sounds like a great story. One of those that will keep me awake until three AM because I can't lay it down and shut off the light, LOL.
Thanks for the tip. If Mr K's book store doesn't have it, my local library will get it in for me. I called and they have it in their Kingsport branch. I love Mr. K's used books. I buy hard cover editions of the latest best sellers, used, but in like-new condition for anywhere from 3 to 5 dollars, and when I have read them I get about half of that back on a trade. It's even cheaper than amazon.
Does Utica or Rome have a store like that?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2012 17:35:31 GMT -5
Nope, no used books stores around that I know of. They've all closed. There used to be one on Genesee St but it's gone.
I'm sure you'll enjoy the book. I know it kept me up!
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Post by virgilgal on Nov 5, 2012 20:50:46 GMT -5
This looks amazing and I'm also interested in reading it. Thanks for the mention kracker. I recently succumbed to my irrational dislike of libraries for most of my life and am now a member of our Finger Lakes Library System. I can access about 10 libraries, order a book online and pick it up in Cortland. Then I have about 3 weeks to read it. I will add this to my list!
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Post by Clipper on Nov 5, 2012 22:58:29 GMT -5
We have a system much like the Mid York Library System around Utica. I am close to a Sullivan County branch library in Blountville Tn which is about 3 miles down the road. It is small, but if you request a specific title they can usually get it for you. I also have a card for the Bristol Va/TN city library. It was brand new only a few short years ago. It is bright and sunny, and has an amazing selection of books. Once in a while on a rainy day, I will go there and get lost in the stacks for hours, just browsing around just as I did at the Utica library when I lived up there. I have always been an avid reader, but retirement has allowed me the time to really spend some time enjoying books and reading. Now if I happen to get deep into a good book, I can read late into the night, and simply sleep a little later in the morning.   As a young boy I often would wile away an afternoon reading a good book. If there was not a sandlot ball game, or a trip to the swimming hole, I would sometimes grab a book, and go to a place where I occasionally went to read in the shade of a tree. It was next to a small pond that used to be approximately where St Mark's Church stands now. The houses up the hill from General Herkimer school had not been built yet. Once in a while I would fall asleep and nap there for half the afternoon and not get much reading done.  My dad taught me to read before I ever entered school. Books have brought me untold pleasure all of my life. Even in Vietnam I was never without a paperback poked in my back pocket. When it was quiet, I could be found behind the 50's cushioned by a couple of life jackets, reading my book. When I was a firefighter and worked 24 hr shifts, I would read for hours at the fire station between calls. When I drove a truck, I wiled away the hours waiting to load or unload reading my book. VG have you purchased a kindle or a nook or some other device to read from? I am simply old fashioned. I want to turn the pages and smell the paper and the ink. I don't see myself buying one of those devices as long as I can buy a good hard back edition and carry it with me wherever I go. I want to browse through the bookstore and library. I want to flip through the book before I buy it. I don't want to read a quick review and "download" anything. LOL |
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Post by virgilgal on Nov 6, 2012 7:54:17 GMT -5
Clipper, I think there are readers and then there are those who are not readers. I think I was born reading. Our father taught English and did a lot of writing, mostly poetry, as well. We had more books in his library than our school library and I read my way through them before I left home. I read now every night for an hour or two before I fall asleep. Once in a while I read for a while in the afternoon, I always bring a book to an appointment and I read online, new and such constantly. I always felt I had to own a book in case I loved it so much I needed to be able to read it again and again. I ran out of space for books a long time ago and weeding them out was getting too traumatic. When I was with my daughter this summer I tried her Nook. I have to say I loved using it. I priced them and priced "buying" books for them. Since I buy 95% of what I read as used books I couldn't come close to affording the nook! I did decide to join the library though, mostly because I was thinking of what I spend even on used books. It's been wonderful to start reading a series and to just add a request for the next edition every few days. I think I am hooked!
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Post by Clipper on Nov 6, 2012 12:13:09 GMT -5
I used to have shelves full of books in every corner of the house, as well as boxes of books stored in the garage. I took the majority of them to Mr. K's and traded them, with the exception of some reference books, a few biographies, a couple of bibles, a dictionary and a thesaurus (although I now use the internet for those references), and a select few novels. When my mom died and we cleaned out the house in preparation for selling it, we found not only her books, but also 10 banana boxes full of my dad's paperback westerns. The three of us children took what books we wanted, and sold the rest at the estate sale. I held back three boxes of dad's books and traded them in a a store in Kingsport Tn. He had a credit slip for over $300 at one time. He read those paperback westerns until the day he died, and I would go monthly to get him another dozen or so. In the four years that he lived after my mom passed away, be went through that $300 at a dollar or two a book, and I kept him supplied with second hand paperbacks from Mr K's. I don't know about you VG, but I justify my spending on books quite easily. I don't go to movies, I don't smoke, I don't drink, and my books and bowling are my "frivolous spending items." With trades I usually get anywhere from 6-10 books for $10 or $12. Less than it would cost to buy ONE book new and at full price. Smoking used to cost me that much in a day or so. I seldom jump on this thread and recommend very many books because a lot of what I read is the everyday writings of John Grisham, James Patterson, Mary Higgins Clark, and Patricia Cornwell. Unless someone recommends something special, such as the book that Kracker is recommending, I normally read a lot of murder mysteries and crime novels, sprinkled with a sampling of regional lore written by local authors. An occasional biography when one person or another peaks my curiosity. I have read a the biography of every president since Eisenhower, including Barrack Obama's "Dreams From My Father." I hope that I will be buying "President" Romney's biography soon. Time will tell. |
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Post by dave on Nov 6, 2012 23:42:30 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Nov 7, 2012 1:49:14 GMT -5
Oops. UPDATE: ::)I guess I will have to read "Former Governor" Romney's biography, LOL. |
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