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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
I forgot to mention that almost everybody in the store, including me, was wearing a mask.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 26, 2021, 08:28:14 pm ---I went out today to a bookstore that is 10 miles away! Not very environmentally correct of me but it's getting so good bookstores are few and far between. At least I didn't order on Amazon.
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Why is this environmentally incorrect? ???
Front-Ranger:
To get in my car and travel such a long way just to buy a book. I should have taken a bus or a train but public transit is very inadequate where I live.
Front-Ranger:
It's an archival issue this week around the theme of food. I don't mind an archival issue but I've read three of the articles already and remember them. :-\
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on August 26, 2021, 08:28:14 pm ---I went out today to a bookstore that is 10 miles away! Not very environmentally correct of me but it's getting so good bookstores are few and far between. At least I didn't order on Amazon.
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The Tattered Cover is still there, I hope??
I confess to the evil deed of ordering things on Amazon, just because it's so easy. My Kindle hasn't worked with my new wifi, so I haven't ordered anything lately, but I'm getting one of those huge new iPhones in a day or two, which may be big enough to read a book comfortably.
You can also by ebooks from Barnes & Noble. I haven't heard of them doing anything evil.
But another option is to get the digital version from the library. At least a couple of people I know have library memberships in several cities so if a book is popular (as I'm sure that one is, for example, given the good reviews) you can get on numerous waiting lists and borrow it from a library anywhere. As I understand it, at least -- I haven't actually tried it yet.
--- Quote ---I found the book Real Estate by Deborah :Levy, which was reviewed in TNY a couple of weeks ago. Started it and like it well. I forgot I don't usually like autobiographies, but this one seems okay so far. Not too self-absorbed.
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I wonder what she considers the difference between autobiography and memoir. Memoirs are among my favorite genres. I don't think of them as self-absorbed; the good ones read like novels that happen to be about real people and their real lives.
I just started reading The Yellow House, a memoir by Sarah M. Broom. It's about her family's house in New Orleans and involves Katrina, so it's especially interesting to me and timely now.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-yellow-house-sarah-broom/1129761250?ean=9780802149039
One thing Amazon has over B&N is its "look inside the book" and "send a sample" features.
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