Spent an hour browsing at Grey Wolf Books in San Leandro, a great barn of a place. Bought a small heap of sf\/fantasy paperbacks, concentrating on the top shelf that only we freaks can reach unassisted.<\/p>\n
I also found a copy of Thomas’s Calculus and Analytic Geometry<\/i> at a price low enough that I need no longer refer to my old purple one. (My sister had used it after me, returned it to me with the spine ruined, and got herself a fresh copy.) How many of you remember the purple book? How many still have it?<\/p>\n
My most curious find was a dictionary of Latin medical terms – for Estonians. One has to wonder: do such things ever move, or did the shop’s buyer take a wild gamble? If the latter, at how much of a discount?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spent an hour browsing at Grey Wolf Books in San Leandro, a great barn of a place. Bought a small heap of sf\/fantasy paperbacks, concentrating on the top shelf that only we freaks can reach unassisted. I also found a … Continue reading