nancy drew in bourda market..
so after moving off from the picket , i head down to bourda market .. I saw a man reading a book at one of the stalls.. with the continued decline in literacy in Guyana especially among men/males/beings with penises .. I am always feel that I need to tek a picture if I see a man reading a book anywhere - saw a man reading while waiting for an appointment at Ministry .. and now at the market, see a man with a tattoo throw back reading a book.. saw that it was a book stall and the man is the owner.
His collection of books included a lot of romance novels - he said 98% of his clients are women - and included clancy, grisham and so on - and then toni morrison, terri mcmillan, alice walker..
The man said that he trying to keep the thing going, and that he believes it is necessary to keep the book stall open, even though it rough but he said he could do with more space.
He has a lot of Nancy Drew.. I bought two which I have not read (for my niece)
When Guyana was a backward oppressed country, apparently before independence.. every market had book stalls, and there were roving sellers of books. I heard that Berbice actually had about three publishing houses (Edgar Mittelholzer published his first books there). Now that we are thriving progressive democracy, the number of book sellers has decreased. The nice fancy City Mall has no book shops. Bourda Market has a few stalls. Georgetown Reading and Research Centre has their second hand book store. Michael Forde Bookshop is depressing to visit.. one could only imagine how vibrant it must have been like in the days when the PPP was being oppressed and not in power (a friend and I wanted to make a proposition to Freedom House to take it over but we too busy wid stupidness).
There is a nice small shop on Regent Street near Oronoque - Centre for Islamic Studies. - air conditioned with a settee so you can sit down and read if you want.
One day Guyana might become backward again.. and the bookshops will thrive.
His collection of books included a lot of romance novels - he said 98% of his clients are women - and included clancy, grisham and so on - and then toni morrison, terri mcmillan, alice walker..
The man said that he trying to keep the thing going, and that he believes it is necessary to keep the book stall open, even though it rough but he said he could do with more space.
He has a lot of Nancy Drew.. I bought two which I have not read (for my niece)
When Guyana was a backward oppressed country, apparently before independence.. every market had book stalls, and there were roving sellers of books. I heard that Berbice actually had about three publishing houses (Edgar Mittelholzer published his first books there). Now that we are thriving progressive democracy, the number of book sellers has decreased. The nice fancy City Mall has no book shops. Bourda Market has a few stalls. Georgetown Reading and Research Centre has their second hand book store. Michael Forde Bookshop is depressing to visit.. one could only imagine how vibrant it must have been like in the days when the PPP was being oppressed and not in power (a friend and I wanted to make a proposition to Freedom House to take it over but we too busy wid stupidness).
There is a nice small shop on Regent Street near Oronoque - Centre for Islamic Studies. - air conditioned with a settee so you can sit down and read if you want.
One day Guyana might become backward again.. and the bookshops will thrive.
Bwoy, we din't have TV and computer games back in de day. If yu didn't go and play with whoever was in the Street, then you read! Simple - times change.
ReplyDeleteyeah.. but other countries have tv and computer.. much better.. but their number of bookshpos and libraries aint like we own
ReplyDeleteThe PPP run Ministry of Education is buying counterfeit text books, need I say anymore?
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Children don't read because their parents don't... their parents never inculcated the good habit of reading in them... and because some parents can't read also.
ReplyDeletei looked at all the book store for a nice horror/fantasy book but all i could get is text book this is why kids don't read share text book nothing to boost their imagination.
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