Last Tuesday I was still traveling (in Birmingham, Ala.),
and raining again, for the third Tuesday in a row, but this week I am back in
New York City, where it is sunny but cold cold cold. I’m trying to get up to
speed for the daily slices starting Friday.
Last
Tuesday I had free-lance work to do, then went out to lunch at Miami Fusion,
where I had a jerk chicken salad, very tasty but unlike any jerk chicken I’ve
had before, more like a sweet and sour sauce. Then I visited the main branch of
the Birmingham Public Library, where I read the first few chapters of Jo
Nesbo’s retelling of “Macbeth” in modern terms.
In a corner
of the library lobby was a used-book store, where the library sells donated
books. This seems like a brilliant idea. The New York Public Library’s main
branch has a shop, but it sells new books as well as all kinds of gift items.
Only one branch in Manhattan that I know of accepts used-book donations and
holds regular book sales. I spoke to the volunteer at the Birmingham Library
bookstore about whether I could send her books, and she told me about flat-rate
boxes from the U.S. Postal Service. I will look into that tomorrow.
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It has been a crazy winter so far.
ReplyDeleteOur library is having their spring book sale now - and I have donated books there as well as buying (not that I need anymore books!)