This weekend finds me in Sydney.
It'll take another post to ruminate on the city, but let me just say that they have some damn excellent bookshops.
I spent yesterday afternoon in Kinokuniya, which is sort of Japanese version of Border's, only much better stocked. (For example: a whole aisle of poetry, and one entire bookshelf devoted to Renaissance history!)
Today I whiled away most of the morning in Berkelouw. The ground floor is new books, funky stationary and a vegan cafe (I didn't have to tell them that I wanted a soy flat white. It was already soy). And then you climb the stairs and GLORY: shelves and shelves of second-hand and rare books. And more coffee and food, with the sun making golden coin shapes across the tables.
And tonight, while waiting for my Thai take-away to cook, I ducked into Gould's (open at 9pm!), and brought a very clean copy of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Views the Body and a battered but serviceable copy of George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind. All for 8 bucks!
What a winner!
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