Jolly Olde BookBlog

Store Reno – The Light at the End of the Tunnel

After months of work (mostly at night when the store was closed) we’re on the home stretch of the reno.  There is MUCH more shelf space, and now comes the massive job of reorganization.  The new store layout will make it much easier for you to find what you are looking for and showcase much more of our stock.

Improvements are happenning daily, and will continue over the next few months.

Gift Certificates – The Perfect Christmas Gift

Books are always a big hit at Christmas time, and in today’s economy, used books are the logical choice.  Of course, it can be difficult to know what to get.  You just never know what they have read (unless they’re kind enough to provide a "want list"!).

Gift certificates are the perfect solution.  We offer them for any amount, and it’s a great way to ensure your loved ones get what they really want.

Plus there’s no wrapping…!

Terry On Books Blog – Review of EXIT MUSIC by Ian Rankin

After having it sit on my "to-read shelf" for several months, I decided to get to it and finish off the Scottish crime fiction saga featuring Detective
Inspector John Rebus; "Exit Music" being his
swan song. Now that I’ve read it, there’ll be no more Rebus books to anticipate and to savour; at least not until 2014, when his author has stated that he may bring Rebus back on board as a consultant.

Rebus would be sixty-eight by then, if he doesn’t drink himself to death in the meantime. Predictably, Exit Music is another good read from Ian Rankin. Our three main characters are here, as well as a few we’ve met before and a couple of newcomers. DS Siobhan Clarke is slowly and competently taking over the reins of the two related murder investigations in progress as Rebus’s last day looms large. Big Ger Cafferty floats in and out of the picture, irritating the hell out of Strawman.  Not surprisingly though, Rebus still has considerable input in the solving of both cases, despite being somewhat handicapped by his latest and last suspension from duty.

Exit Music is another dark, seedy story that Rankin fans are sure to enjoy, although saying goodbye to our old friend, John Rebus, as he reluctantly accepts retirement, is a sad ending indeed. No doubt I’m speaking for many of you when I say that in a year or two, I’ll probably begin reading the Rebus books over again, in anticipation of his resurrection in 2014.

To read more of Terry’s Blog click HERE

Season’s Greetings!

From all of us at the Jolly Olde Bookstore, we hope you have a safe and happy Holiday Season!

Today I’d like to give a plug to the Community Integration Services Society.  They do great work in the Tri-Cities and North Vancouver, and they deserve as much recognition as possible.

We’ve been working with them for three years now, and are proud to be included in their success stories:

http://www.communityintegration.org/Services+Offered/IDS/default.htm

Welcome to the Jolly Olde Bookstore Newsletter.  As always, lots of exciting things are happening, so lets get to it!.

Brian, Terry, Shafagh & Azi
Jolly Olde Bookstore

WEDDING!

It’s been a very busy summer, highlighted by Brian’s marriage to Tracy!  It was a wonderful day and Desmond did a excellent  job as Ring Bearer.

EXTENDED HOURS!

RENOVATION

TERRY’S BOOK BLOG

As always here is an excerpt of our own Terry Stillman’s Book Blog:

Whatever your age, whatever your financial means, you can begin to build a book collection.

Nearly all readers-except those people who rely wholly on the library for their reading-buy books that they want to actually read, mostly for pleasure, sometimes for knowledge. If you keep these books in a visable, accessible place in your home, you may be inclined to say that you are a book collector, but what you probably have is a personal "reading library". Building a book collection takes a little more thought and planning.

Firstly, most book collections are composed of books that reflect the collector’s main interest(s). Perhaps you’re extremely interested in World War II. Does your interest focus on aviation, land battles, or the navies of the Allies and Axis countries, or all three of the armed services? Perhaps World War I, medieval warfare, the American Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, or even modern warfare is more your preference.

You may have a keen interest in a hobby such as gardening, painting, or music. Your profession may be in science, medicine, law, architecture, even farming and bookselling. You can collect books on all of these subjects.
Are you enthralled by the many amazing children’s book illustrators over the past one-hundred-and- fifty years? Are you familiar enough yet to favour any particular era of illustration, be it Victorian, early 20th century, between the two Great Wars, post-WWII and 1950’s, the ’60’s and ’70’s, or the modern period of 1980’s to present?

If you are of modest means, you may have missed the boat in terms of buying original editions of books illustrated by the top children’s book artists in the late 19th and early 20th century. If you enjoy the work of Kate Greenaway, Walter Crane, W. Heath Robinson, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and their many talented contemporaries, you may still seek out much of their output in later printings, some published as late as the 1980’s.

If you have considerable disposable income for collecting illustrated books, or first-edition literature, then your possibilities are endless.

Once you decide to collect-be it children’s authors or artists, military books, gardening books, sports books, art books, books on games, whatever-the first rule should be to focus. Choose your genre, then choose your sub-genre. It may be first edition books by American authors of the 1920’s and 1930’s. It may be English gardening books from the 1880’s to the first World War; or English true crime books from 1880 to the second World War; or American gangsterism; or all the first editions of Edward Gorey (that might be a sub-sub-sub-genre). Start somewhere, but use some sensible parameters. Secondly, think about a budget. Can you afford a hundred dollars a month, two hundred a month, ten thousand a month? Set some sensible financial parameters as well.

Read more at Terry On Books Blog

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