Trawling through the Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn
Happy Thursday, everyone, and I'm hoping that you're having a pleasant week. The US general election is ongoing (I voted a week ago) and if you are in the US I hope you already have or are getting ready to vote by Tuesday. This is an important one (even more than usual) and it's so important we all vote. Now on to the random crap I found this week! Published just over a century ago, in 1919, this is the charming sequel to the wonderful Parnassus On Wheels , wherein Roger Mifflin was running a bookstore in a horse-drawn cart. I'm an absolute sucker for bookstore novels and these are excellent examples with a good affection for the material and a lovely wit. It's also a fun look at early-20th-century Brooklyn, with an added bonus of a darn good mystery. ________________________________________ Like last week, this two items are from an author who is apparently extremely well-regarded but of whom I have almost zero knowledge and definitely I've nev...