Chapters (Canada's Barnes & Nobles) has a great selection of books, but they don't always have everything. Lately, they've been nagging me with unavailable books. I didn't want to order them (because it can cost up to 30$) and they said the demand wasn't strong enough, so they probably wouldn't order those writers anytime soon. So, there's always Amazon, with its free shipping and its low prices. Here's what I could get:
Cathedral, by Raymond Carver: Honestly, I could've find this one in Montreal I'm sure. But I felt like reading a Carver and this one just happen to find its way to me through Amazon suggestions. You never need a reason to read a Carver. It gets to you, no matter what your mood is.
My Dark Places, by James Ellroy: Saw this one in Montreal like, three years ago maybe? Passed my way then and never saw it since. As you know, I developed a slight obsession with Ellroy since. The extracts he reads sometimes in public are beautiful.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy: Same story than for the other Ellroy. It's sad, but the selection of his work is getting thinner and thinner as time go by. All I can find is the L.A Quartet and piles of Blood's A Rover. This book is thick, it's like 600 pages.
Broken Summers by Henry Rollins: Not only Rollins is criminally underrated as a writer, but the distribution of his work is not the best. It's my seventh Rollins book and I found only three in Montreal (one second-hand quality). Broken Summers is the compilation of his journal entries for the recording of Rise Above, his benefit record for the West Memphis Three.
Have you read some of those? You guys have a book-shopping binge ahead?
Cathedral, by Raymond Carver: Honestly, I could've find this one in Montreal I'm sure. But I felt like reading a Carver and this one just happen to find its way to me through Amazon suggestions. You never need a reason to read a Carver. It gets to you, no matter what your mood is.
My Dark Places, by James Ellroy: Saw this one in Montreal like, three years ago maybe? Passed my way then and never saw it since. As you know, I developed a slight obsession with Ellroy since. The extracts he reads sometimes in public are beautiful.
American Tabloid, by James Ellroy: Same story than for the other Ellroy. It's sad, but the selection of his work is getting thinner and thinner as time go by. All I can find is the L.A Quartet and piles of Blood's A Rover. This book is thick, it's like 600 pages.
Broken Summers by Henry Rollins: Not only Rollins is criminally underrated as a writer, but the distribution of his work is not the best. It's my seventh Rollins book and I found only three in Montreal (one second-hand quality). Broken Summers is the compilation of his journal entries for the recording of Rise Above, his benefit record for the West Memphis Three.
Have you read some of those? You guys have a book-shopping binge ahead?
