Reading on the Road

Our mission to go to an independent bookseller in each province continued yesterday in Sudbury with Bay’s Used Books. We dutifully donned our Analog Books t-shirts and took pictures in front of their wonderful two-story murals.

We entered a warren of bookshelves, nooks, and crannies, with the written word surrounding us. Coleen got a map to guide her though this literary labyrinth. I eventually found her in Canadiana with the help of security cam footage and an employee.

Unlike the resident cat Hugo at Analog Books, Bay’s Used Books’ feline mascot is an orange plushy named Crookshanks. Delightful hour or so surrounded by books. We are starting to acquire our own library in the van where space is at a premium.Read more