Well, I told you I kind of cheated when I posted last week’s book events (sf) cause I had made a resolution to attend a book event and then didn’t really do so. I mentioned my five minutes at the Booksmith but neglected to tell you about the 2 hours I spent at the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Big Book Sale (that’s a mouthful). By the time I left, my day was all but over but it was well worth it.
Apparently this was the 45th year of the event and everyone I mentioned the event to seemed to have gone at some point in their life and picked up some interesting reads. I certainly managed to pick up some interesting reads myself. When I first walked in I was a bit overwhelmed with the task that was before me. I had thought about trying to pick out a book from each category or genre of books they had. I quickly threw that idea out the window after going through two rows of fiction books and already accumulating 10 books. Not to mention the fact that the map I picked up, with my shopping cart at the entrance of the event, listed 66 different categories. The most interesting in my view being “yearbooks,” hopefully mine wasn’t in their somewhere (although I somehow doubt those are the type of “yearbooks” there), “aging” and “craft & sewing” maybe they were interesting to me only because I had no interest in them at all.
