I am looking for a book.
It is not an obscure book.
It is a fairly famous book, in fact.
They even made it into a movie (well, okay, in the 80's).
But still.
I have been to the public library, which, by the way, is quite a lovely spot, twice now in search of this book.
A note about our library: it really is one of the more beautiful libraries I have known. Very inviting and cozy, yet sleek and intelligent. A lot of Frank Lloyd Wright influences.
And still, for all that, each time I have been there to obtain this book, the only copy . . . ONLY COPY, I say, has been mysteriously "checked out."
I have been to the bookstore in town, which, God help me, needs to hire some people who have read a book or two in their lives.
It was not there either.
Enough said about that, or this will turn into a larger rant than I intended.
I even went to the almighty Wal-Mart.
I should have known better.
Enough said about that, too.
I have not yet sought out the musty, dusty, tightly cramped aisles of the used book store in town. It's a great place to peruse if you have an aromatic cup of coffee, and an hour or two to yourself. It is not the place to take three energetic boys who pretty much live in a state of perpetual motion.
However . . . I suppose that will have to be my next stop.
I don't suppose there is any reader of this humble blog out there who happens to own a copy of Out Of Africa by Isak Dennisen, and would lend it to me fairly soon for a short period of time?
It is the next book on my bookclub reading list, and I would really like to attend with something intelligent to say about the selection, or anything to say about it, really, at all.
I love living here.
I really do.
But when you can't find a copy of a classic book in the whole town . . .
Ah, but wait!
Am I forgetting?
Amazon.com!
Gee whiz.
Why bother with libraries and bookstores?
The Internet.
Making the world a better place, one book at a time!
