August 9 - HUGGS booksale on Hornby Island

Alas, the reader who attends a charity booksale. It's tough to find time to choose carefully, because there's always an elderly woman using her elbows and counting on chivalry to excuse her ill-mannered behaviour, and a queue behind you, and more to see than you can possible manage. But I've been around enough of these sales now that I don't mind standing annoyingly still for long periods, and it paid off this time. For $20 (some of which was really a donation, on top of the amount they were asking for), I picked up the following:

• Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
• Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home
• ed. Susan Hiller, The Myth of Primitivism: Perspectives on Art
• Tony Hiss, The Experience of Place
• Bill Holm, Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music
• Robert Kaplan, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
• Kenneth Macrae Leighton, Oar and Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast
• ed. David Meltzer, The San Francisco Poets
• Christopher Milne, The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays
• David Rothenberg, Why Birds Sing: A Journey into the Mystery of Bird Song
• Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole, From Desolation to Splendour: Changing Perceptions of the British Columbia Landscape
• Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (World's Classics ed., by Helen Darbishire)
• Jan Zwicky, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

Some real gems here, certainly, though likely a few things that might not get their spines cracked for some time!