Another happy trip to Sam Weller's
I love used bookstores, even if they are musty and make my allergies act up.
This weekend, my husband and I met my parents at Red Rock Brewery in downtown Salt Lake City. It was my second time there, and even more delicious than I remember! Ben asked me if he could buy some of their microbrewery equipment for our house. I said no. We still have a 25-year-old couch in front of our tv, for God's sake!
Anyway, we went to Sam Weller's bookstore afterward and of course the time just slipped away from me as I walked around. I managed to hit all three floors this time... and next time I want to visit the Rare Books room that is guarded by a guy at a desk who locks the iron gate when he has to leave it unattended. I've managed to avoid the "local" wing of the store (read: "Mormon" wing) simply because something else always distracted me first (like the iron gate to Rare Books at the top of the stairs). But this time I looked over the half-wall separating it from the rest of the store and noticed a book called "Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah." So I picked it up and delivered it to Ben, who decided that it was a good idea to take it home.
Here are the other books we bought and then (I) excitedly cataloged in LibraryThing:
The singular Mark Twain: a biography
The Prince and the Pauper
The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales
Panati's Extraordinary Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody
(a great companion to my dog-eared copy of Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things)
That's a lot of links in one post (for me, anyway). Thanks for reading.
