SFist Reads

Where SFist continues on our quest to convince our readers that we like the printed word as much or more than the electronic. Check out our Bay Area local bookstores and our local libraries, and don't forget how easy it is to reserve books from the San Francisco Public Library for pickup at whichever branch is most convenient for you.

SFist Jackson is still working on his fifty-cent copy of Simone de Beauvoir's Prime of Life between issues of The New Yorker and The Economist he's mooching from friends. A red diaper baby, SFist Jackson wishes he were around to hang out with Sartre and Camus, fight for the Spanish Republic and run guns for la Resistance. All that and more in this memoir.

SFist Eve is reading The Ghost Writer, a creepy contemporary gothic novel about family mysteries, pen pals, and the secret lives of librarians. She's reminded a bit of both The Others and a lot of novels she read in college.