Books and cats and books and cats and….


Our trips in the past few years have been there-and-back affairs, due to the complications of figuring out COVID hours/openings, the fickle nature of New England nature, and wanting some amount of post-travel pre-work time to relax. But the end of last week we were in Connecticut, Andrea wanted to go to a used book store, and none of the aforementioned issues were issues, so I suggested we go to the Niantic Book Barn, which met everyone’s requests:

  • Andrea: a large, semi-curated but mildly out of control collection of books.
  • Lorelei: cats

Andrea found a pile of romance novels:

I wouldn’t recommend going far out of the way to stop there, but if you’re by the Connecticut shoreline already it’s a fun stop. You won’t find a lot of good books unless you snipe one that just got sorted or you pull it straight from the newly arrived section. The stuff that accumulates… well, let’s say they had three entire shelves of L. Ron Hubbard.

The thermostat, in the politics section

As for me, I walked out with one, one dollar book. I think it was a steal.

A 1968 copy of Conan the Warrior