Excerpts from X-scapes
This book is currently not for sale.
The book is dead–long live the book!
Few people have not noticed the diminishing number of bookstores. We’ve had several in Tamsui close in the past two years, and many others have much ‘slimmer’ collections of books… it seems that bookstores as we grew up with them are about to go the way of the dinosaurs, CD stores, and other esoteric products….
Just ordered a book from Abebooks
Abebooks. I’m looking for a replacement book and found that it was out of print. So I ordered from Abebooks. They’re reliable and fairly speedy. Only problem: Book $1. Mailing $8. Oh, well. At least I can get it that way! Author: Karen Wallace Title: Archie Hates Pink: 1972- Bookseller Book No.: GRP14527094 Price: US$…
Book of the Weekend: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
This is the book I bought at the weekend. It’s an interesting read and Gladwell makes his argument clearly: “Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, he builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, “some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky”.” Check…