Something More

I really just discovered the book section at what used to be called The Alabama Books Store, and is now referred to as I recall not what. I went there one day last week to look for Absalom Absalom! and instead I found Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard, The Thanotos Syndrome in hardback by Walker Percy, and Dante's The Divine Comedy in full, in the Everyman's Library Edition, also in hardback, among others. There were others I would have liked very much to bring home with me, but shelf space, as I always say, is limited. I came home to find that my copy of The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading and Writing and the World of Books, by Robertson Davies, had arrived from one of the independent book sellers on Amazon, and I almost immediately ordered his book of essays on the theater, A Happy Alchemy. I've just about gone crazy ordering books these last two months.