Sexy Bookish Librarian

Every once in a while you have to just roll the dice and see what lands. Okay, so I am really not that adventurous. I was really just doing my quarterly hard check to make sure that my links still linked some where. What I discovered was a gem, really.

I started at the bottom, okay so you caught me, this is creative avoidance of work I am just not in the mood to do. Anyway, confessional over, I started at the bottom on the block, with the web circles/loops group. The last in line is "ObscureLogs" and I clicked on it and was immediately spirited away to a working link.

I cannot tell you the name of the site, because it is too many entries back for my browser to recapture, but from it I launched into a wonderful little gem that is hooked up with OMG WallMart. It is called "The Library Thing" (click on title of this post for a direct link) and is fun as can be for the little reader in me.

If you have a unreasonable amount of books cluttering up every room in your house, you too should go to this site. And also to the Old Inlet Book Shop in Homer. Not just because they quote Abraham Lincoln on their bookmarks, "The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." Also because they are the home of the Mermaid Cafe and some of the coolest mermaid paintings you will ever care to acquire. I think Gidget's next bedroom is going to be a mermaid bedroom.

www.mermaidcafe.net/www.oldinletbookshop.com

The Old Inlet Bookshop is a family owned bookshop of third-generation booksellers. We offer used, rare and out-of-print books, and have been operating in Homer since 1997.

The shop has moved from its original location in the basement of the Old Inlet Trading Post to its new digs up the street, now located in a dovetail notch-constructed log cabin in historic Old Town. About 400 feet from the waters of Cook Inlet, the log structure, known as the Hansen House (because it was Burt Hansen who moved it from the south side of Kachemak Bay to its present location in the early 1930s), was one of Homer's very first stores. The provenance is still a mystery, but some locals believe the cabin was built on Yukon Island in 1905, making it one of the oldest buildings in Homer.

Totally renovated, the cabin offers old pioneer charm to the add-on new construction that houses the Mermaid Cafe and B&B. The bookshop specializes in Alaskana, polar exploration, natural history, modern firsts, children's and medical books. We also offer a wide array of general stock in most genres.

Of the 20,000-plus titles available for perusal, one might find a signed Rockwell Kent illustrated first edition Moby Dick in a dust jacket, or a John Muir Cruise of the Corwin with a manuscript tipped into it. There is the possibility of securing a paperback of a favorite fiction writer, or a naval text detailing all the major submarine battles of World War 11.

Also available are original oil paintings by local artist James Buncak, oil paintings by Chicago artist Sue Spero, whale-bone and ivory carvings by Point Hope Eskimo Tom Fields, and photographs by renowned photographer G. Brad Lewis.