Read More: Willow Books
// July 20th, 2009 // Books
Before you enter the store, take a few minutes to browse the elderly wooden bins for ridiculously priced books of all themes. Walking into the store, with its long shelves of mildly ordered books, is a quiet refuge from the hustle going on around the corner at Honest Ed’s. Yellow signs dot the interior with deals ranging from 3 books for $10 to specific deals on fiction, paperbacks and hardcovers. The older the book, the better the opportunity you will have to bargain the price.
The floors creak a little and the lighting is just dim enough. The books ranged from the dilapidated romantics to new books of every sort. Two long shelves that run along the centre help in breaking up the flea market?type atmosphere so that you can find your fixation. A quick stop in will definitely leave you with a choice; a stroll with slightly more scrutiny will leave you weighted down with alternatives
Hours: Usually 11am – 7pm
Location: 758 Bathurst Street (416 534 2665)
Best Find:
The Fall By Albert Camus
Quote of Interest:
“In the interest of fairness, it should be said that sometimes my forgetfulness was praiseworthy. You have noticed that there are people whose religion consists in forgiving all offences, and who do in fact forgive them but never forget them? I wasn’t good enough to forgive others but eventually I always forgot them.”
- Pg. 49. Camus Albert. The Fall, 1956 Vintage Books
