I don’t know what you experience when you go into a book store. But if you are like me, you spend quite some money there, in spite of amazon and the like. Today I went into a book store looking for a gift - went out with the gift and to additional books for me.
About the icelandic author I can’t say anything so far - at the moment I am just hooked by Iceland, so I hope I like it. And then I saw the newest book of Gertrud Leutenegger, a swiss author. She has written many books, but is not very well known. I suspect because not much happens in her books. At least at the first glance. And her language is excellent - it is really fascinating reading her. Only to hope that I don’t expect too much from the new book.
By the way I wouldn’t have known Leutenegger either, if it hadn’t been for Monika Schnyder. Besides teaching arabic (egyptian dialect), Monika is writing wonderful poems. And she happens to be a good friend of mine!
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January 12, 2009 at 5:07 pm
zibilh
I seldom buy any books in bookstores these days - probably because I go there when I want a certain book and then they don’t have that. I usually pile up my book wishes in my head and then order everything from the internet. I know, this behaviour is very bad for small book stores. But there you are. From being a dyed-in-the-wool book store browser when I lived in town I kind of glided into amazon and now I’m hooked …
On the other hand I am a frequent guest at the lokal library
So how was your catch?