Library books

How delightful to browse in a library with fresh, shiny books - a whole new world of possibilities. These have to go back to Pitt Meadows library today.BC's best known artist, Emily Carr, painter of monumental forests - seeing so many of her paintings in one place (admittedly at a small scale), I started looking differently at the trees around me.

What we think about when we look at art. Fascinating. Might have to buy that one.

Interviews with contemporary cartoonists - a genre, names, and approach new to me. Interesting to see the vignettes of cartoon history that lie behind the contemporary work. And there's something about that grid layout of comic strips ...

The history of foods - salt yes, but who knew lettuce had a history?

As these were found in a library in Canada, here are the Canadian connections. Emily Carr is a Canadian icon; Alberto Manguel lived in Toronto from 1982 to 2000; Seth is a cartoonist "obsessed with the past" living in Montreal; Margaret Visser taught Greek and Latin at York University, near Toronto, for 18 years.