Today is the first in a long list of books that I got at the Fair’s Fair on 17th Ave & 14th. Sigh. I miss that bookstore so much. I’d gone there since I was a little kid and so many of my favourite book memories were there. Also Off the Wall. Ugh I still miss that place so much it hurts.
I don’t have the steam to write more about bookstore grief today, so here’s today’s book!
I bought this book because I thought “woah—how unique” though the next time I went to the store there was another copy on the shelf, ha! That quip aside I think this book is super appealing—it contains all these full colour reproductions of Scottish tartans alongside explanations of them. In some ways this seemed like the sort of book that wouldn’t get made anymore, and I really love books from the not at all distant past that might not be produced today. Often those are heavily illustrated books, to which I’m always drawn, and this one appealed to that sensibility.
Here’s the Anderson tartan for my friend Isobel :)
Anyway—as I mentioned—low on stream today. TTFN