Yearly Archives: 2008

thanks for giving

Well, it has been that day of the year again and I want to thank every cus­tomer that has been to the shop I work to give me a great time and the guar­anty of a pay check this month.

Thanks for a great Thanksgiving!

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my work space full of books

Don’t you just love books? Well, I do, as you may have guessed see­ing this lit­tle site of mine.
And I’m blessed being able to work in a book shop. More than a year already!
To give you a sam­ple of our sec­tions, and the books we buy for our cus­tomers, here are some photos.

Ain’t it a pretty sight — sigh–

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mr dixon disappears — ian sansom

Israel Arm­strong, the reluc­tant librar­ian in North­ern Ire­land is back for a new adven­ture. We have met Israel in the case of the miss­ing books, but now the books are all save and sound in the van aka the mobile library. What (or bet­ter who) is miss­ing this time is Mr Dixon, an influ­en­tial depart­ment store owner. He van­ishes right under Israel’s nose and when Israel is found at the ‘crime scene’ he is even arrested as a sus­pect of harm­ing and kid­nap­ping Mr Dixon. This unjust treat­ment to make him the obvi­ous cul­prit makes Israel more deter­ment to catch the real offender. Well.…determent.…Israel has to find him really, oth­er­wise he him­self will end up in the jail cell again. So, another job for our ‘hero’.

old fashioned library

My boyfriend and I went on vaca­tion to Turkey. Happy times all around!
At the end of the first week we felt fit enough to see some cul­ture and we went to Eph­esus, an old city once flour­ish­ing. A lot of build­ings are still there in good con­di­tions and this is one of them:

It is the library of Cel­cus from the sec­ond cen­tury AD. Of course no more books were found in it, but the build­ing itself, although no longer com­plete, is impres­sive enough. Just imag­ine roam­ing through books in this place. Makes you won­der why we don’t build like this any­more. Here are some pic­tures of the beau­ti­ful details: