Top Ten Weird People in the store this weekend
#10 The guy who ran in here in a panic begging to know where he could buy pot
#9 The guy I saw in the men’s room using the toilet, then washing his hands, then using the urinal. (I left, so no word on a second hand-washing.)
#8 The woman who asked if this was a library (we get this almost daily)
#7 The two Fringe Festival volunteers who kept panhandling their team leader. (Fringe volunteers get fed, so it has some appeal for urban-camper-y types.)
#6 The guy who took one of Ariel Gordon’s ($7) poetry chapbooks yesterday because he thought it was some kind of a freebie thing, and then brought it back today to show me which of the poems he liked best.
#5 The Fringe Festival volunteer who kept asking Andrea if she knew that one of our bookshelves was on wheels. How ingenious! It must be very handy. Do you move it around a lot? etc., etc.
#4 The drunk who wanted Chicken McNuggets
#3 The bearded giant who eats in the restaurant every week or two, just so he can stare at the servers was in today. He wanted me to tell him if anyone still made tin ceiling tiles. (He was obviously staring at the ceiling as well today.)
#2 Jerry
#1 And best of all, the guy who came in looking for our “spirituality” section. It’s a broad category, I said. What are you looking for? The Dark Arts, he mumbled hoarsely. I showed him where we keep goofy shit, which is above our SciFi section. He then proceeded to pull a whole shelf of Andre Norton down on his head. I guess that would make him a Novice Dark Artist.
Top 10 Saturday
Every Saturday we’ll post an Aqua Books’ staff member’s top 10 favorite books.Third up is misc. worker Andrea. Go Andrea Go!
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
A Clergyman’s Daughter - George Orwell
Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe
A Widow for One Year - John Irving
The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies
Watership Down - Richard Adams
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Top 10 Saturday
Every Saturday we’ll post an Aqua Books’ staff member’s top 10 favorite books. Second up is bookstore owner Kelly Hughes. Go Kelly go!
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Hobbit - Tolkien
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Dying Earth - Jack Vance
The Inklings - Humphrey Carpenter
The Red Pavilion - Robert Van Gulik
Two for the Lions - Lindsey Davis
The Number One Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
The Eyes of the Heart - Frederick Buechner
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Top 10 Saturday
Every Saturday we’ll post an Aqua Books’ staff member’s top 10 favorite books. First, up is me, Dave. Go Dave go!
Collected Poems - W.H. Auden
A Confession - Leo Tolstoy
Baseball: A Literary Anthology - ed. Nicholas Dawidoff
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Coming Through Slaughter - Michael Ondaatje
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace - Andrei Voznesensky
Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball - Stephen Brunt
