San Francisco is My Home

24
Sep

Words, words, words

Author: kris, Category: Events, Literature

This is the week I wait for all year long, for this week begins the San Francisco Library giant book sale.

The sale takes place in an enormous warehouse at the lovely Fort Mason, and it is filled to the brim with used and new books on every subject. If you go in the early days of the sale (Thursday through Saturday), most books are around two or three dollars. Come back on Sunday and everything is a dollar or less.

Even if you are not a reader, the study of human folly is well worth the price of a bus trip, as thousands and thousands of bibliophiles come out of the woodwork and engage in subdued near-fistfights over the boxed set of Trollope or the 18th century cookbook one of them found in the humor section.