Happy Holidays!!

Happy Holidays includes them all:
Merry Christmas,
Merry Couple of Days after Christmas and
Happy New Year!

Hope everyone is well and cool, in the 72 degree December day we're having. Here's one: Hope you don't get heat stroke this Christmas!

Updates:
*Tons of books at the store, almost all for sale.
*Lots of rare books for your viewing pleasure
*Putting new books out on the shelves on a regular basis.
Do come by and say hi!
I thought this was awesome:

Confession
Last night my little boy confessed to me:
Some childish wrong;
And kneeling at my knee
He prayed with tears-
"Dear God, make me a man
Like Daddy- wise and strong,
I know you can."
Then while he slept
I knelt beside his bed,
Confessed my sins,
And prayed with low-bowed head.
"Oh God, make me a child
Like my child here-
Pure, guileless,
Trusting Thee with Faith sincere."
-Andrew Gillies

ps. I had one year of sobriety yesterday!

The English Major Bookstore is Six Months Old!!!

The English Major Bookstore is
Six Months Old
Today!!!!!!





Keep up the fire's of thought,
and all will go well... You fail in your thoughts or
you prevail in your thoughts alone.
-Henry David Thoreau



There never shall be one lost good.
All we have willed or hoped or dreamed
of good
shall exist.
-Robert Browning

Wow, I mean, what can you say on top of that?


Other than to say, we still have books for sale at the store - if you haven't made it in yet, you can do so six days a week, except today (Monday) , when I am closed and actually have some time to blog. Lots of new arrivals, lots of stuff I took in in trade over the past few months and finally have shelf space to put stuff on. By the way, shameless plug here, but I am low on shelving, as those of you who have been in the store can tell. I need bookcases like nobody's business and search for sturdy, gently-used units on a daily basis. I actually recently acquired a handmade, Naugahyde-paneled Bookcase, but still need a whole aisle full of them. If you see any or know of any, please let me know! Thanks in advance.

Oh, kind of big news, I am starting a new service at the store and that is an enhanced search for books you all are looking for. If you have listed your name or email with me and given me a title of a book you are looking for, I will be getting in contact with you over the next couple of weeks (I know, too late for Christmas, sorry, first-time business owner and all) about details. I will find the books you want!!

Goodbye, fellow Memphians and those from far-away places. I hope the 45 degree differences in temperature over 24 hour periods feel as much like a time-traveling experience for you as it does for me - "Oh, look, it's September again for a day, and in December! How fun!"

And by the way, please feel free to leave a comment. I would really like it if you did. A lot. Thanks!

Ranier Marie Rilke

But if the archangel now, perilous, from behind the stars
took even one step down toward us: our own heart, beating
higher and higher, would beat us to death. Who are you?
-Ranier Marie Rilke
Duino Elegies, 2