This week Denise and I experienced for the first time the
book sale on the front lawn at the First
Baptist Church
in Decatur, which is just a
fraction of their huge legendary yard sale that ended Saturday.
Earlier in the week—in the quiet cemetery-like surroundings—we
scouted out the thousands of book offerings. You can easily imagine what was
there—the usual books that are laid to rest: War and Peace, The Thorn Birds, The DaVinci Code, Rhett Butler’s People, Pat Conroy books,
The Magic of Sex (?), and a complete
hardback set of Louis L’Amour westerns.
Denise went back for the opening ceremonies on Thursday and
not only picked up some Sunshine Biscuit tins (reliving the fresh baked goodness
of her youth), but she brought home some great hardbacks for our library: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan
Didion, That Old Ace in the Hole by
Annie Proulx, and a copy of Jonathan Franzen’s essays, How to Be Alone. Franzen is headlining the Decatur Book Festival on
Labor Day weekend, so I am stockpiling inventory.
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