Our local library had a big sale last week. They were selling off some of their older books.....I assume to make room for some new stock or somesuch.
I went by to see what the deal was. They had a teeny-tiny section of the library partitioned off and had the For Sale stuff in there. It was quite a mixed bag. I'd gotten there on the second day of the sale. My sister had been there the day before and said the place was "mobbed". I picked up a couple of woodworking books, and also got a stained glass book for the Mrs.
One book that caught my eye and I just had to get was J.H. Patterson's "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo".....in hardly-used hardback. (Odd thing about this book is it never had a "card thingy" glued inside, and they didn't stamp it with their library stamp on the edge of the pages like I am sure you've all seen on library books.) Not a bad deal for 12.5 cents!
This is the true first-hand tale of a pair of man-eating lions that literally stopped progress on construction of a railway line in East Africa in the late 1800's. They made a movie out of it some years back called "The Ghost and The Darkness". It's a pretty good read. Patterson's style is a bit "Victorian" and he uses words and phrases that ya just don't hear in modern parlance.
Anyways..........I do a good bit of reading, but mostly periodicals and how-to books. Kind of nice to sit down with a book that tells a story for a change.AND to MAKE TIME for it!!!
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