October 3, 2006 - breathing again

Six weeks of chaos, madness, confusion, out of which I stumble with treasures in hand.

Hornby Island, at second hand:

• Doug Jones, My Brother's Farm: Reflections on Life, Farming, and the Pleasures of Food ($4)
  
• Wayne Grady, Chasing the Chinook: On the trail of Canadian words and culture ($6)
  

Victoria, garage sale:

• Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country ($2)
  

Salmon Arm, Bookingham Palace:

• Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind ($6.99)
• Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys: A Novel in Two Semesters ($9.48)
• Michael PJ Kennedy (ed.), Going Top Shelf: An Anthology of Canadian Hockey Poetry ($2.99)

Victoria, Grafton Books:

• Alexander Pope, Works, Volume II (Imitations and Translations) - 1756 ($85)

Birthday presents:

• Douglas Coupland, JPod
• Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
  

Granville Island, Blackberry Books (buy two, get one free):

• John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce ($21)
• Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife ($22)
• Orhan Pamuk, Snow ($21)

Vancouver, Canterbury Tales:

• Tom Wayman, Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems 1973-1993 ($7.95)
• Bronwen Wallace, The Stubborn Particulars of Grace ($5.95)