Book Hunt: Folsom Library Ye Olde Book Sale
Throughout the year, Folsom Public Library receives thousands of donated books from friends of the library. They have a small bookstore and once a year do a massive clearance sale in one of the library meeting rooms. You can find lots of contemporary and children’s books there. For the average book lover, the sale is … Read more
Book Hunt: San Francisco – ABC of Reading & On Moral Fiction
Doug Rice likes to assign out of print books for our ENG230A class, and when the campus bookstore can’t stock them, he huffs out of class. Let me tell you something else about Doug Rice: He hates malls. He hates Borders. He hates people who shop at those places. Well, this weekend, he drove me … Read more
Beers Books – Second Saturday Sale
This weekend, Jason and I visited Beers Books in midtown Sacramento. This is my favorite Sacramento used bookstore and I always make sure to drop in on the Second Saturday of every month because they take 20% off your entire purchase. Beers specializes in selling used books, but also carries a decent assortment of new … Read more
Book Hunt: The Library of Congress
A writer is always looking for a bookstore or library to tromp through and get lost in. He wants to march down the stacks, and run his fingertips along all the spines of books. He wants to pull down a tome and find the missing piece of his soul. Whenever I travel, I always try … Read more
