May 27 - Hornby "free store"

I lifted a few books today from the capacious shelves of the Hornby Island free store, conveniently located at the island's fiercely communal recycling centre (complete with $30,000 outhouse, I kid you not). Two will be left at the B&B:

• Randy Ray & Mark Kearney, The Great Canadian Trivia Book 2
• Gordon Payne, Against Architecture: An Installation (it deserves to stay, since this artist lives on Hornby)
  

The other four will go home with me:

• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
• Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
  
• Patrick Suskind, Perfume
• ed. Ian Katz, The Guardian Year, 2001

The Guardian volume contains some powerful and thoughtful essays responding to 9/11, among other valued things. How can one volume contain Ian McEwan on 9/11, published on 9/13/01; Salman Rushdie on reality TV; Jeanette Winterson on the mass-marketing of pornography; and Richard Dawkins on the death of Douglas Adams?