Anodyne
Friday, June 16, 2006
 
25% off red tag sale this weekend at Book Warehouse, Vancouver's self-proclaimed "favorite independent bookstore chain," home of numerous Oprah favorites and the entire CBC Canada Reads list. Lots of interesting stuff mixed in with the middle-of-the-road backlist, including, to my delight, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983 (Walker Art Center, 2003), an expensive hardcover catalog I put off buying new, reasoning that it would arrive over the transom used sooner rather than later. But hardly anyone ordered it in Vancouver, and used copies were conspicuous by their absence. Not what I expected to ever pull out of BW's tiny North Vancouver location, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless, and a good long walk at twilight back down Lonsdale to the Seabus, cool wind blowing, thunderheads piled up over Georgia Straight, unexpectedly pleasant art-historical conversation on the ride across the harbor back to town.
- posted by cjb @ 10:25 PM


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