The Sunday Haul (on 30-03-2025)

 It wasn’t too hot last Sunday but I had my cap on as I left for Abids for the Sunday second-hand book market. I got there just around noon, and within minutes I found the first two titles at a seller opposite the GPO. The first title I found was a copy of ‘Righteous Victims; A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001’ by Benny Morris with half of the author’s name torn away. It was thick as a brick and from the blurbs on the back cover it looked like to be a good book. 

I was still excited with finding it when I spotted the second title almost related to the same topic. I found a copy of ‘The Lion’s Gate’ by Steven Pressfield with an arresting cover. This was about the six day war that took place in 1967 between Israel and the Arab countries. I have another book on the same topic titled simply ‘The Six Day War’ by Jeremy Bowen that I had found at a second-hand book store sometime in January. It was a good haul so far and I had a wonderful feeling about finding these two books.

Then with another seller I found two more wonderful books. The first was a beautiful copy of ‘Antarctica’ by Claire Keegan. A couple of months back I had read ‘Small Things Like These’ and had found it to be a wonderful short read. ‘Antarctica’ is a collection of fifteen short stories by Claire Keegan.

The other book was a nice copy of ‘The Third Reich’ by Roberto Bolano, another thick volume that I almost did not buy because I have not yet read ‘2666’ and ‘The Savage Detectives’ that I had found long ago. I do not know when I will get the time to read all these books but I went ahead and bought the book because it is not every day that one finds books by Bolano at Abids.