Appetite For Books
Dec. 24th, 2016 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilightponyFluttershy didn't want to brave the bookstore crowds this time and it was too short notice for Rarity. She's preparing her spring apparel line, so I went to Canterlot alone. By late morning I'd stepped off the train and I'd popped over to Celestia's School. I trotted downstairs to Physical Equinology and Archaeology and made my way through the maze of pony artifacts in Sub Basement D. I peeked into the workspace reserved for Prof Quest's research. There I found Moondancer up to her ears in manuscripts. The science of equinology does not pause for winter, but luckily for me, it will take a break to go book browsing with a good friend. Moondancer knows all the best stores for buying books.
It was snowing in Canterlot, but getting caught in a flurry while shopping in a city built into a mountainside lacks Ponyville's charm. The cobblestone streets are often steep and they get very slippery fast when it snows. I fell a few times.
We made it to the district where most of the booksellers have their shops. We got out of the weather and down to the serious business of selecting books. Just the best ones. I can't take the entire store home. A Shadow Spade novel. Some collections of scientific letters. Land of the Tapirs by Pier Biddet. A biography on Mare Cutie. The Cutie Mark of Dorein Bay by Ostler Wild. A Hairy Thatchet book. Another by Pasture Ffjord.
While we were in a big Barns and Pommel bookstore, we asked what was new and good in Neighponese illustrated books. I chose one I thought Fluttershy might like. It's risky buying books for somepony else. I really tend to buy things I'd like to read, and Neighponese illustrated literature is very low on my list of preferences. Barns and Pommel likes to make tempting display piles of half-priced books, placed right near the entrance where you can't miss them. I poked through the books and one was an illustrated joke book called 101 Uses For A Raw Carrot. Moondancer and I snickered over some of the illustrations showing ponies using carrots in silly, unlikely and even unsanitary ways. I bought that book for Pinkie. It was half price!
It was snowing in Canterlot, but getting caught in a flurry while shopping in a city built into a mountainside lacks Ponyville's charm. The cobblestone streets are often steep and they get very slippery fast when it snows. I fell a few times.
We made it to the district where most of the booksellers have their shops. We got out of the weather and down to the serious business of selecting books. Just the best ones. I can't take the entire store home. A Shadow Spade novel. Some collections of scientific letters. Land of the Tapirs by Pier Biddet. A biography on Mare Cutie. The Cutie Mark of Dorein Bay by Ostler Wild. A Hairy Thatchet book. Another by Pasture Ffjord.
While we were in a big Barns and Pommel bookstore, we asked what was new and good in Neighponese illustrated books. I chose one I thought Fluttershy might like. It's risky buying books for somepony else. I really tend to buy things I'd like to read, and Neighponese illustrated literature is very low on my list of preferences. Barns and Pommel likes to make tempting display piles of half-priced books, placed right near the entrance where you can't miss them. I poked through the books and one was an illustrated joke book called 101 Uses For A Raw Carrot. Moondancer and I snickered over some of the illustrations showing ponies using carrots in silly, unlikely and even unsanitary ways. I bought that book for Pinkie. It was half price!
