Marcia Raley initiated the Buzzy Book Club several years ago when she brought in a couple boxes and bags of books that she no longer wanted and instructed me to “Do what you want with them. Sell them, give them away I don’t care.”
I then cleared a shelf on one of the stands in Buzzy’s Country Store and placed the books on it noting accordingly that folks were free to take or trade a book as they wished to do so. I soon had folks who would trade in some books and others who even offered to purchase some of these books. All in all though, it was mostly an exercise in dust collecting as the books sat untouched and un-wanted.
Thru the years, other folks also brought in and deposited numerous books to the point that I completely filled one shelf and had several bags-full of books, mostly paperbacks, stashed in the Buzzy store room. Unfortunately, I found myself taking in more books than folks were taking out. Thus, I retired the book club as far as collecting them. Mind you there is still a shelf-full of books in Buzzy’s free to anyone who wants one of them.
I was reminded of all this when, on my recent trip to visit my daughters, I took with me a couple books from the BBC (Buzzy Book Club) to read on the long, to-and-from plane rides. Upon finishing one of the books, I was pleasantly surprised to find the following inscribed on the last page of the book:
The book was Rules of Betrayal:
My thanks to Nancy B. for her donation and inscription. (It was a good book and I currently have it back in the BBC if any of you want to check it out – literally!
Only one song to be played here – the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer.” Note that I recall some critic somewhere discussing the tune as “Obviously being about prostitution.” All I can say is that that was never very obvious to me at all. See what you think (click here.)