Yeah, I know. I crapped out of last week’s blog post. Fact is, I had nothing to report, except maybe about my pot plant which is growing at the rate of 6 inches per day, or my haricots vertes, which are not growing at all. Tomorrow I’m headed up to the shack in Cape Breton […] More >>

Gee, it was good to be back in person after all that isolation! It seemed that many of the librarians of yore had grown younger in the four years since my last RBMS. Oh, wait. They WERE younger. A new crop! I had some good conversations with fresh faces, and pleasant reunions with old hands. […] More >>

36264 Pictorial History of American Ships by Durant John $10.00 ordered 1 $10 Shipping $10 Total $20 (CA Sales Tax to be remitted by Biblio – not included in order total) Tax: $0.78 Payment has been received from the customer by Biblio.com. **** The purchaser of this book requested Expedited Shipping. The nominal postage increase […] More >>

Doomed! Up at 4 am silently screaming, I’m out of books! I’m out of money! I’m doomed! This is followed by 5 or 10 minutes of Why did I ever…? As in, why did I ever do the last half-dozen things I thought were such good ideas at the time? Like planning to drive halfway […] More >>

It was sort of dreamlike, hallucinatory. Wake at 6:30 am, coffee, email. In the car at 7:45. South on 128 to Rt 2 to Rt 111, and then, you know. A memory dream? All the sudden, just like always… I’m in line at the Boxboro Regency Hotel, waiting to shop a book fair, looking at […] More >>