Toilet Paper and Book Security

 

Because I worried about running out of toilet paper, Husband Rick built a wall of toilet paper in the bathroom. I then had toilet paper security.

That may have been a joke, but less funny is losing book security. 

 

When we are at home in Geneva, we have the English library nestled on the ground floor of the Emmanuel Church. For only a 125 CHF (US$156) family membership a year we can each take out six of their 11,000+ books for a month. We do and do read them.

 

They also have regular book sales of used books at really low prices.

There's a number of English book stores, with Pages & Sips our favorite.

We order books that the Library might not have. This bag below is full of books we ordered to take back to Southern France for our fall reading security.

There were two English book sources in Argelès that we lost. My late friend Barbara had a used book store. Monsieur Livre, a man in shaky healthy, just died. On marché days he sat in the window of his living room facing the street. The sill was covered with French books (if I wasn't so lazy I'd read more in French). There was a box of English books in a case below the window for the price of 3 Euros (US$3.45) per book. The only problem, many of the books we had given him for his resale.

Kiosks and old telephone booths are spring up in both places. 

Friends exchange books when we know the other person will love the discards.

I'm reading my way through the canicule (heatwave). Thanks to books, I've been in Edinburgh walking down Princes Street, which I love, and through Waverly Station. Bagpipes play in my imagination, as I delve into the lives of the people on the pages. 

I said good bye to Scotland and moved to Maine  and another family. I felt the cool breeze and icy water. Even the mosquito swarms seemed real to me.

Leaving Maine, I am now in Australia without ever have to get on a plane or go through customs.My new friends are sporty tennis players.

I expect to finish my six library books and will exchange them for six more in two to three weeks.

 

If the canicule has abated maybe we'll walk along the lake, maybe check out the photo exhibition along the shore, maybe eat at Le Cottage or have an ice cream. If the canicule hasn't abated, I'm content with my book security at home.