My husband and I own a bookstore, in which we sell both new and used books, mostly used. Sometimes, going through backstock and trade-ins, I find myself suffering something akin to mental whiplash. For instance, as chance would have it, what I’m sending to The Bookstation in the next box of used books so far includes: Piloting, Seamanship and Small Boat Handling, 52nd Edition by Chapman, et al, The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family, by William J. Bennett, Digging Up Bones: The excavation, treatment and study of human skeletal remains by D.R. Brothwell, Nine Lives: The Folklore of Cats, by Katharine M. Briggs, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Revised Standard Version; Lady of the Lotus, a novel based on the wife of Buddha by William E. Barrett; Utopia, by Thomas More, translated by Clarence H. Miller, and Death of a Doxy, a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout.
It’s an interesting job, I’ll give it that.
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