My condolences profound, rave. I know your loss all too well, and share your pain.
---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] I suffered a terrible lost today Date : Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:40:21 -0000 From : "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo.com> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I suffered a terrible lost today. When I picked up my morning paper I discovered that, overnight, I had lost an old and dear friend. The headline was like a punch in the stomach: Weak sales spell end for 82- year old chain. I bought my first book at the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop. In my sane and sober youth I spent hours meandering through their original downtown location, a two story emporium that smelled of books, dust and mold. I saw Ernest Gaines read there. I saw Gloria Naylor read there. I saw Edward P. Jones read there. I didn't meet my first wife there but I did gain an introduction to my first book club. As I sit here, in my basement office, surrounded by hundreds of the thousands of books I own, I realize the Schwarz Bookshops were the epicenter of my lifelong love with books. Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops to close. Wow. ~(no)rave! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
