Either love or hate the ideologies behind big box book stores such as Chapters-Indigo, but one cannot deny that they have some fairly killer book deals when Ms. Reisman is looking to drop some of her older stock. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s not the public library or fake book shop prices, but hey, 50% [...]
03 May 2010 Bryan 2 comments
environment, travel, urban planning
I picked up a copy of Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us from Indigo’s books under $10 table. I’m not sure what a book has to do to be heaved onto the $10 table…perhaps this is where former “International Bestsellers” go to spend their twilight years…next to the the Chicken Soup for the Atheist books. [...]
20 Feb 2009 Bryan 3 comments
First 2009 post and 308th post since 2004 when I started this blog. Actually, I began blogging in 2003 at http://www.bryancrosby.ca (without the “-”) but lost that domain, and the 100 or so associated entries because of an amatuerish mistake regarding hosting payments…make sure credit card information is up-to-date or one might find their hosting [...]
06 Jan 2009 Bryan 0 comments
china, grad school, queens, surp, urban planning
I was a bit of a library/book nerd when I was an undergrad (actually, probably ever since I became a library helper in grade 5). Having such an occupation would involve numerous hours browsing around looking for interesting items in a university library. That’s right…in a university library looking for non-fiction books to read that [...]
03 Oct 2008 Bryan 7 comments
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