tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180841772024-03-13T06:18:07.432-05:00Ravenswood Used BooksA full service used book store with thousands of fine titles packed into an intimate space. Books in nearly every category are available in many price ranges with an emphasis on classic titles and famous books and authors from all periods and countries. We buy or trade for store credit. Payment by cash or check.Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-45021439425394240282017-07-08T09:12:00.001-05:002017-07-08T09:12:28.261-05:00Ravenswood Used Books: We forgot!<a href="http://chibooks.blogspot.com/2017/07/we-forgot.html?spref=bl">Ravenswood Used Books: We forgot!</a>: Sorry, friends, but we have ignored this page for over a year. For news, hours and stories, please visit us at Facebook.com/ravenswoodusedbo...Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-3228572780345805082017-07-08T09:06:00.000-05:002017-07-08T09:08:38.111-05:00We forgot!Sorry, friends, but we have ignored this page for over a year. For news, hours and stories, please visit us at Facebook.com/ravenswoodusedbooksJim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-18788943836408236482016-07-25T19:32:00.000-05:002016-07-25T19:32:46.035-05:00Work forceOur new helper is Barbara Strangeman. She lives just around the corner and is a language guru who knows that English has twice as many words as any other tongue, including Eskimo. She has also taken it upon herself to fully alphabetize the store, a job that's not on the list of projects, but it might prove to be a money maker. That's up to you, dear customer. Why don't you stop in and say hello or hi or greetings or hey or yo or how's it goin or sup or what's happnen. Whatev. Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-58050767732944297992014-08-09T13:05:00.000-05:002014-08-09T13:05:38.212-05:00Singing in the Stacks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-7956025263475261912014-03-26T09:27:00.000-05:002014-03-26T09:32:18.510-05:00Smooth move, dude!Attention, book lovers!! RAVENSWOOD USED BOOKS is moving to a new location. Starting in April we'll be at 2005 West Montrose Avenue, just off Damen and only few blocks away from our old store on Lincoln Avenue. We'll have more space, service by two bus routes ( Damen and Montrose ) and the brown line, and great neighbors up and down the avenue, including lots of dining and snack shops, boutiques and specialists, including but not limited to a terrarium store. Same phone- 773-593-9166 - and great service by our trained staff of two, one an avid reader and the other an avid store owner. We're also going to have a great new sign across the store front, but for the moment please enjoy the crafty cut -out, not yet archived for publication, by Jessica, our talented manager. ¶ See you on Montrose ASAP, and don't you dare miss it!<br />
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Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-45344915577507451522013-11-30T15:23:00.001-06:002013-11-30T15:23:36.653-06:00Photos of erstwhile assistant Janis adorn the bookstore's walls, and here is the latest, in which she and family are posed in the woods near their log cabin home , somewhere next to Asheville, North Carolina. They have neither internet nor cell phone service and yet rely upon income generated by computer games designed by Miles & his company, which causes us to go figure.<br />
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Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-68966071758559679942013-08-06T20:58:00.000-05:002013-08-06T20:58:59.887-05:00Excerpts<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qUp2fIwMynY/UgGpI_DYU4I/AAAAAAAABok/5m7lpzQgRwM/s1600/seventh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qUp2fIwMynY/UgGpI_DYU4I/AAAAAAAABok/5m7lpzQgRwM/s1600/seventh.jpg" /></a>from Kevin Brockmeier's <a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/book-review--the-view-from-the-seventh-layer/Content?oid=1115229">The View From the Seventh Layer</a><br />
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"...the conscience of every house was the bookshelves. She was demoralized by the number of houses whose shelves held only clocks and geodes and a few back issues of TV Guide. She imagined the consciences of the people who lived there hardening into a thousand immovable facets as they sat in their armchairs and watched the minutes roll by. And many of the shelves that did contain books carried only a few tattered romance novels or an oversized hardcover tribute to some summer blockbuster or television series. It was the rarest of houses that was actually equipped with books she would have been excited to read. She knew that it was priggish, but she came to rash conclusions about the people whose collections she perused. She couldn't help herself. <br />
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People who read Maeve Binchy give their sympathy so indiscriminately that she wondered whether it might not be self-pity simply masquerading as sympathy. <br />
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People who read Charles Bukowksi believe the only clear vision is a disfiguring one. <br />
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People who read read Thomas Pynchon are smart but disdainful.<br />
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People who read D.H. Lawrence suspect that the forbidden is not necessarily without its virtue, and so are easily persuaded that the forbidden and the virtuous are one and the same. <br />
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People who read Anne Rice believe that tragedy is romantic.<br />
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People who read Salman Rushdie use their scruples like a blade: the humane ones use them for opening, the cruel ones use them for wounding.<br />
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People who read Tolstoy find it difficult to be alive because they are reasonable, while people who read Dostoyevsky find it difficult to be alive because they are not.<br />
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People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.<br />
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People who read Tom Clancy would not approve of her - neither her weakness nor her sorrow.<br />
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People who read Tom Wolfe feel that they have never abandoned their ground, tht it is the world around them that has snapped free of its foundations.<br />
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She approved wholeheartedly of people who read Carson McCullers - their open nerves and their beaten glances.<br />
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She did not believe she would ever be capable of understanding people who read James Patterson."<br />
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<br />Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-64031750262814428232013-05-30T14:26:00.000-05:002013-06-06T13:36:53.737-05:00Postage Stamp Short Story<a href="http://www.thejournal.ie/fighting-worlds-stamp-912325-May2013/">A 224-word story written by a teenager...on Ireland's newest stamp:</a><br />
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<br />Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-48529472764010558232013-05-25T01:13:00.000-05:002013-05-25T01:13:00.727-05:00"I've never seen so many books in my life!"<div style="text-align: left;">
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Months ago a title caught my eye - <i>Womenfolks</i> - by an Arkansan author, so i squirreled it away for safe keeping. Rediscovering it (much like a squirrel must after such a winter), i was wrapped around the first chapter instantly. That kinsome attraction brought to mind a favourite customer and fellow Arkansan's recommendation of another Ozarkian author hailed not as an unknown writer but "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Harington">an undiscovered continent</a>," Donald Harington. Perhaps he remains a continent undiscovered because locating his work feels like locating sunken Atlantis or floating Laputa. The vast vaults of our dearest CPL got nuthin. </div>
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To soothe my stung hick pride, i extracted as many works by other Arkansan writers as i could find from the local branch. This June shall be dedicated to sweating through poetry, novels, and folklore hailing from the ridges and river valleys of the Natural State. So far the list includes such diamonds as Miller Williams, John Clellon Holmes, John Winks, Robert Palmer, Robert Vance, John Gould Fletcher, and Thomas Nuttal. Will report soon on this literary hitch-hike down yonder. </div>
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-the oracle in residenceJim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-38946150586585444572013-04-25T00:59:00.000-05:002013-04-25T00:59:00.044-05:00Algren, The Movie<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="note_intro" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.2em; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It's the birthday</span> of the bookseller and publisher <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Beach" style="border: 0px; color: #85776d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Sylvia Beach</a></strong> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&keywords=Sylvia%20Beach&tag=writal-20&index=blended&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325" style="border: 0px; color: #85776d; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">books by this author</a>), born in Baltimore, Maryland (1887). She opened a bookstore and lending library on the Left Bank of Paris called Shakespeare and Company, which stocked English-language books. Shakespeare and Company became known as "the unofficial living room" of the expatriate artists living in Paris, writers like Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. Sylvia Beach met Joyce in 1920, just as he was finishing <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: oblique; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ulysses</em>. He couldn't get it published because all the big presses thought it was too obscene, so she offered to publish it for him, even though she'd never published a book before. To fund the project, she got people to buy advance copies. She had no editors, so she edited the huge manuscript herself, and she published it on Joyce's birthday, February 2, 1922.</div>
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During the Nazi occupation of France, people urged Beach to return to America, but she didn't want to leave her bookstore or her community. In 1941, a German officer wanted to buy the copy of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: oblique; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Finnegans Wake</em> that was on display in the shop window, and Sylvia refused to sell it to him. He threatened to confiscate everything in her shop. Within a few hours, Sylvia and a few friends moved all the books into hiding in an upstairs apartment and painted over the name on the door, and Shakespeare & Company vanished.</div>
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But the real trouble came to Sylvia Beach because she had kept an 18-year-old Jewish girl on the payroll as her assistant. The Nazis had warned Sylvia to get rid of the girl if she knew what was good for her, but she refused. The girl was put on a train to Poland and never heard from again, and Sylvia was sent to an internment camp for six months. After her release, she didn't have the heart to reopen her bookstore. But for more than 50 years, there has been a second Shakespeare and Company bookstore on the Left Bank, run by George Whitman and his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman. It is a haven for young writers, who can sleep on beds in the store in exchange for working a couple of hours a day shelving books.</div>
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Ernest Hemingway wrote about Sylvia Beach: "Sylvia had a lively, sharply sculptured face, brown eyes that were as alive as a small animal's and as gay as a young girl's, and wavy brown hair that was brushed back from her fine forehead and cut thick below her ears and at the line of the collar of the brown velvet jacket she wore. She had pretty legs and she was kind, cheerful and interested, and loved to make jokes and gossip. No one that I ever knew was nicer to me."</div>
Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18084177.post-46244700333385395732013-03-12T14:33:00.000-05:002013-03-13T12:51:17.633-05:00CRIME MARCHES ONThe following is reprinted from the bookstore's facebook group page, a site bearing the same name as this one, or close to it. Close enough so as to eliminate confusion. Or confusing enough so as to eliminate readers, but who's counting? And now to that reproduced post:<br />
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customers didn't know our name and called us "Used Books." "I'm
goin' to Used Books, honey, and don't come lookin' for me", they would
say. The fault lay in our signage, since greatly improved by the addition of a
second flag. Another hand painted sign was so well done that it disappeared
immediately, stolen by one of our book scouts, we are so certain, but it
was never proved. ¶ Also unproven is our strong suspicion that a murderer,
fleeing the crime scene just beyond </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://quakechicago.com/">Quake Collectibles</a></span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">, struck a parking meter
causing it to loft through the air and into our plate glass window. The meter's
post bore a car's paint traces, but the detectives ignored our observation and
in fact seemed to lose interest in finding the killer when they concluded it
was a gay lovers quarrel that caused the murderer to inflict fifty stab wounds.
On the plus side, fag bashing is no longer tolerated in the force, so far as we
know. Cops as a group are slow to evolve, for reasons explored in some of the
books we have here in the shop, or just stop by for a chat and we'll share our
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">"If you haven't been to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://gapersblock.com/ac/2013/03/07/live-lit-for-the-lionhearted-at-guts-glory/">Guts & Glory</a></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">, cancel your spa day and do this instead; it is acupuncture for the soul. On the third Wednesday of every month, an audience bigger than your extended family's Christmas gathering (and far less awkward) snuggles into the back of</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Powell's Bookstore</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">to hear fearless tales of guts, and possibly glory.."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">I have squeezed into this room thrice now. The first time a friendly Powell's employee offered the fun fact that the chair she found for me was repurposed from a chamber pot. The second time there wasn't room to pry open my beer, much less my sealskin parka. Overheated and dehydrated, I laughed until I sweated, except when the room went religiously silent, so still that my trickling perspiration seemed disrespectful. The closest I've ever come to my dream of reaching nirvana in a sweat lodge was listening to <a href="http://bitchesgottaeat.blogspot.com/">Samantha Irby</a> read a list of sixty-something flaws. At one point she seemed abashed and hinted at skipping a few. The room roared its unanimous dissent. <a href="http://chicago.improvteams.com/performers/675/whit_nelson">Whit Nelson</a> told how he came to love acting via the years of practice he'd had as a straight man. <a href="http://www.kelsiehuff.com/">Kelsie Huff</a> turned us all to stone explaining how much her mother's boyshorts mattered. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Really, you shouldn't come, because then I'm even less likely to fit inconspicuously between the wall and the short people. But, really, you should come. </span></span>Jim Mallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06528189549521792659noreply@blogger.com1