Hello. I am having lunch before heading over to Morecambe to try to visit
Andrea. A more complicated post about Didonians is gestating but will have to wait until this evening. The Indian curry mentioned recently
here is postponed because a friend is unwell. Rereading Poul Anderson blends with the rest of life. Sheila will visit her family in Northern Ireland and I might revisit the friend in
Birmingham. Because Sheila likes
Malta, we might revisit there although I do not want to make a habit of flying in the current climate.
Laters...
(Andrea's brother's Old Pier Bookshop, front and interior. Andrea inhabits the two floors above the shop.)
10 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I hope Andrea is well, I think you've told us he might have been ill.
I would love to go thru "The Old Pier Bookshop." It's hard to find good used book stores. My impression is they don't tend to last long. I would be looking thru the SF section (of course!), then the history and Biblical sections.
Given how cold and wet and rainy (and sometimes snowy) winter is in the British Isles, I can understand why Mrs. Shackley likes Malta!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Andrea is very unwell with a condition that has not been fully diagnosed.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And I'm sorry Andrea has a difficult to diagnose problem. I hope it can be successfully treated.
Ad astra! Sean
Ditto on the opes for Andrea.
And damn, but I love bookshops like that. My parents once bribed me to study math harder by offering to let me take a large cloth suitcase into a used bookstore and buy all the books I could get into it; that was just before we went on a long trip by sea. I got 75 books into the carpetbag, many of them Poul's.
I tracked down most of Dornford Yates' books in this shop.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
That was an amusing story, about you and your parents! I had to obtain my collection of Anderson books piecemeal, from different sources, spread out over many years.
In another timeline, we see Rogatien Remillard, running "The Eloquent Page" bookshop, the kind of used bookstore I would love to visit!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
"The Eloquent Page" reads to me as if it is based on a real place.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
It does, now that you suggested it! I suspect Julian May modeled Uncle Rogi's book store on real used bookstores she had known.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The inconvenience of a solicitor's office on the floor between the shop and Rogi's apartment sounds like a real detail.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
It does, one of the many little awkwardnesses which is so much a part of real life!
Ad astra! Sean
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