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The Bookstore War by Paul Combs — A Book Review
The band of bibliophiles are back in top form, facing battlefronts of evil — okay, not “evil,” but definitely against some seedy characters
If you’ve been lucky enough to find your niche in life, you’ll usually find a place that’s home to your people. In my case, I was in my late teens when fly fishing was an all-encompassing passion, and a local fly shop was my sanctuary. The shop’s proprietor and sole staff, Mike, was a large man with a large beard. He spent his nights toiling underground as a miner, drilling and blasting for ore that produced an abundance of nickel, lead and zinc. During the day, he would wake early and with hands the size of boxing gloves, he fashioned graphite rods, called ‘blanks,’ into instruments that communed with nature and, in their harmony, through water and the trout therein, conversed with God.
Upon each visit to the fly shop, while I either watched and learned, then practiced and perfected fly tying, or hung out and watched as Mike built my custom fly rod, others of our kind would come in, share stories and knowledge and commiserate with great disdain about anyone who did not know how to fly fish yet persisted in calling themselves…
