Books and Polishing

Spent a portion of my evening polishing the halter. Encrusted in shit, I spent two to three hours rubbing and scrubbing with leather cleaner until it shone new. Only things left were a few scratches from being on my horse's face.

Also, and un related to horse tack polishing... I'm getting married.

Other than that I've been working at the book store and pondering. I've started reading again and starting to build the momentum towards two books at once. One book will be fiction and the other not. I've finished one whole book, which was something I never seemed to be able to do at the hostel. I was interrupted so much that it felt as though there was no point, so I would just go wolf hunting instead in the Long Dark. Yellow eyed bastards.

Please, let us have your moldy, smoke riddled books. That is the thing we want with our reading, tar smoke. 

Anyway the book was Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, It was dense, let me tell you. Not for the light reader. It almost came of pretentious, and yet I enjoyed tthe author bouncing writing ideas off me. I recommend her End of Mr. Y for a Neil Gaimen esque fantasy, or the Tragic Universe for something more philosophical.

Books have weighed on me. There's something different about being surrounded by books. For someone like me who can hoard and collect, a book store is a good place to practice abstinence? I suppose that's the right word. I want to fill my shelves and get that beautiful pagey smell wafting under my noses when I least suspect it. They sooth me.

There is no book store in Fort William. There is. Its a new one. Blech. I like verity. Not a amazonian suggestion. I like looking at a hundred thousand spines and trying to decide which one will hold the pages that spark fresh ideas. The adventure. The various styles and qualities. I have a small history book collection in Canada, but its a good one, built by being meticulous about my history books (and literature for that mater).

I'm going to build a collection over yoder so I'll post the list of what I'm after bellow.
As a note, some of these are not always going to be achievable

- Peter the Great, by Robert Massier
- King Death (nf)
- Salem Possessed
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Collapse
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holms.
- Horse in the City
- Wolf Moon, Charles De Lint
- The Hobbit
- Dragonbane + Dragonshadow
- Black Beauty
- The Kalevala
- Basket Case
- What is History?
- Call of the Wild/White Fang
- Wolf country (?)
- How the West was Won, Lou Cameron
- A History of Scotland