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It's Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Eve chez Aurora. We've been doing this for a decade or more now, and perhaps we've finally reached the Shipton and Tilman level, in which the planning fits tidily on the back of an envelope.
There are now thirty-three bookstores participating in what is laughingly called the Seattle Independent Bookstore Challenge. In reality, the Seattle Passport includes stores in Kirkland, Mercer Island, Edmonds, Burien, Poulsbo, Bremerton, Shoreline, Kingston, Redmond, and Bainbridge Island, and, goshdarnitall, that's just The Crazy. And we're just not going along with it, at least not on Saturday. As it is, we won't make it to every store in Seattle even. Not by bike. Not starting at our local that opens at 10:00 am. Not and end up at Oaxaca for a celebratory dinner which is, I tell you, a non-negotiable for both of us.
With age, I tell you, comes wisdom. We're going to the bookstores we like most and that we can reach without too much anguish. Oh, I'd like to visit Magnolia's Bookstore tomorrow on what I consider to truly be Independent Bookstore Day because I absolutely adore that bookstore. Both of us would prefer to hit Open Books tomorrow too. But Magnolia is fairly isolated and closes at 6:00 pm, while Open Books is located near the start of our run but doesn't open until noon. It's not inconceivable that we should somehow squeeze them in, but it's not exactly what you'd call likely.
I'm crossing my fingers we manage to reach eleven stores tomorrow and find them open and stocked with books we are eager to buy. That seems a reasonable, rational approach to the day.
Follow-up post of the results sure(ish) to come.
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