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Book Browsing And You

by Bill Ward on June 12, 2009

in Black Gate Blog, On Books

As a kind of follow-up to my unsettling experiences as chronicled in ‘No Books For You,’ I’ve bloggated an ode to the act of browsing for books in actual, physical, honest-to-goodness brink-and-mortar bookstores. You remember those — the places we used to get all our books back before the Jetsons became reality and robots started [...]

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A Good Haul

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by Bill Ward on May 20, 2009

in On Books, Thoughts & Things

The other day I had to go get a new battery for the lawn mower, so naturally I ended up at the local Goodwill buying books. Got some good stuff; non-fiction ranging from bios of Lindbergh and Teddy Roosevelt, to a book on Gurkhas, something about Mallory and Everest, and one about Ernest Shackelton’s Arctic [...]

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No Books For You

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by Bill Ward on May 5, 2009

in On Books, Thoughts & Things

I was book hunting recently — actually I was running errands of various sorts, but it’s often the case with me that a trip to the grocery store or Home Depot morphs into a book-buying expedition of some kind — and I hit one of my regular spots, the local library. Now, it’s only recently [...]

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Books As Sacred Objects

by Bill Ward on November 12, 2008

in On Books

Recently, I have read two interesting essays on books, the first of which is ‘Of Bibliophilia and Biblioclasm’ from Theodore Dalyrmple writing for the New English Review. In it he talks about the sacredness of books — at least for those that love them — and he takes as his starting point the second essay [...]

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