The BOOKMARK in Dolega

Must we wait for a multiple vehicle accident to slow down the traffic here in Dolega? This is a TOWN, for the benefit of those who don’t believe. ..a pueblo, a poblado, people, perros, peatones, pollos, for Pete’s Sake. Add to this the infernal brakes of semi drivers who suddenly decide that 70 mph is just a tad too fast for town, and hit the brake exactly in front of the Book Mark…the roar alone would give a healthy man a coronary. Not just 65-70 mph, but passing besides, just before a bridge and an intersection. I would be happy to see transit police doing something besides collecting Morditas; perhaps slowing traffic down in the middle of a village…what is the bloody rush anyhow. The economy has slowed to a near standstill, though we pretend otherwise, and still we must rush those 70-ton loads of concrete blocks along a highway with a ten ton limit, we must get to Price Smart to buy whatever, we must get to the dentists who will keep us waiting an hour anyhow, we MUST…we must we must

To start our Obama-inspired housecleaning, we (actually Michael did it while I was in Costa Rica last week) reorganized and straightened out our paperback fiction shelves, so they are better organized with fewer duplications. And to make room for our upcoming Large Print section, we are selling all our foreign-language books (except Spanish) at Wall Street prices, all at two dollars each. These include both fiction and non-fiction, in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, plus one in Finnish, several German, Dutch, Flemish, French and Italian. We have boxed them by language, so come in and globalize your libraries with our cosmopolitan collection.