“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.” Oscar Wilde One morning last week, Oscar Wilde was left on the doorstep of The Eclectic Reader. An orphaned book. Who left him? He was recently purchased from this store. And why? Did they not realize who he was? You now…

It’s that time of year when I gather up all of my houseplants that have been summering outdoors and try to cram them back in the house before the frost hits. Now is your opportunity to buy the plant starts I have been growing this summer and the bigger plants that have been “downsized” in…

Hello my book-loving friends! I will be having hip surgery on July 25 and recuperating for about a week or so afterward. A few people will be running the store in my absence. Be kind to them. Talk books to them. Buy books and help pay for their wages! My sister reads a lot of…

It’s been a good month and we just said good-bye to another rare gem. This inscribed copy of Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems was only in the store a few months. As you can see, it was signed locally at The Stone Lion Bookstore in 1985. That independent bookstore closed some time ago. The Eclectic Reader…

I missed a timely post, but you have not missed the wide selection of Outlander books available today at The Eclectic Reader. There are more on the shelves. I am a devoted Outlander fan, having started way back in 1993. They are my favorite escapist reading. Going deep into another world and historical time that…