Bookstore News: Near and Far #2

The second of a short series on bookstores. (Scoll down to see the first installment.)

Carlos Museum Book Shop, Emory University

Another bookshop that also carries books in art, science and the humanities is the Carlos Museum Book Shop. Both the manager Mark Burrell and Brent Tozzer, who handles the register on the weekends, dropped me notes to stop by for their book sale earlier this month. (They know I am an easy mark.)  I was ecstatic to pick up a couple hardback copies of one of my favorite books in the last couple years, Clive James' Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. It has even influenced my book shopping (e.g. Purchasing the Cavett biography at Atlanta Vintage Books).

Now I can mark up my paper back copy with impunity (and save the new copy for show) and gift a copy for my older daughter who just celebrated a birthday.

In behalf of the MARTA book club, I also picked up Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen. (I liked his other books The Walls Around Us and My Usual Game, the latter I found at A Cappella's outside discount shelf). In Metropolis Owen describes Atlanta as a “city that has probably been the source of more bad transportation policy than any other city in America.” (I will be sure to shout “We're Number One !!! We're Number One !!!” the next time the train runs late.)

Comments

[Bonnybee]

As your younger, non-birthday celebrating daughter I would like to hear how you like the Green Metropolis book. I am curious in this subject...does it say anything about eating locally also? I am slowly developing my ethics and feelings about sustainability and how it can work with or deny my economic trained brain which favors efficiency and instant gratification.