I found out about Vintage Books through a tutoring event that my work hosted and Vintage Books had donated some books for people to take home with them. On Friday I finally had a chance to check them out for myself. I fell in love with this place immediately. It has a very strange and appealing charm to it that captivated me and made me not want to leave. I scored two books from Vintage books for only $3.79! So fortunately for me, one of those books was "The Screwtape Letters" by C. S. Lewis! The particular copy that I bought was printed in 1970 and on the inside actually has someone's name in it and is dated 1972. I find these books to be such a treasure; its a strange phenomenon that just by holding a book you can feel part of another time period. I would encourage all of you to visit this local book shop...keep them open! Here is a link to their site where you can find their address: http://www.vintage-books.com/
I just loved today. This week I got quite sick and was couped up in my house for the last 3 days, only leaving my house to buy myself medicine, soup and tissues. I like to rest, but not that much. You can imagine how refreshing it was to get out of the house today and just go do some of my favorite things around Vancouver. Firstly, Tanya and I hit up Albina Press, then headed to Vintage Books where I always buy books based on their covers. Then we went on a walk at the waterfront, grabbed some dinner at Warehouse 23 and watched the sunset at Columbia. It's simple- but its enough to make me happy.