Gaugin painting, paddles in the wake of the great explorers, and recalls the tales of Robert Louis Stevenson

At the start of the final section of James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, is an epigraph him from his bitter childhood into whatever he makes of his life: ''Then I buckled up my shoes,/And I started Have we finally buckled up our shoes and started?

And since I've started to add a few board games on the site I thought I'd link to Amazon's Summer Toy

I started this little online bookstore partly to remove clutter and partly to share wonderful ideas and

So as a sort of dark humour, funny only to myself type thing, I started reading Albert Camus' The Plague