,16 May 7, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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At your public library they've got these arranged
in ways that can make you cry, giggle, love, hate, wonder, ponder, and understand.
It's astonishing what those twenty-six little
marks can do.
In Shakespeare's hands they became
Hamlet.
Mark Twain wound. them into Huckle-
be•ry Finn. James Joyce twisted them into
Ulysses. Gibbon pounded them into The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Einstein added some numbers and signs
(to save time and space) and they formed
The General Theory of Relativity.
Your name is in them.
And here we are using them now to re-
mind you of letters, words, sentences and
paragraphs. In short, books— reading.
You can live without reading of course.
But it's so limiting.
How else can you go to Ancient Rome?
Or Gethsemane? Or Gettysburg?
Or meet such people as Aristotle, St.
Paul, Byron, Napoleon, Ghengis Khan, Tol-
stoi, Thurber, and Margaret Mead?
To say nothing of Gulliver, Scarlett
O'Hara, Gatsby, Oliver Twist, Heathcliffe,
Captain Ahab, and Torn Swift?
With books your can climb to the top of
Everest, drop to the bottom of the Atlantic,
learn how to do anything from cooking a
carrot to repairing a television set . . .
explore the past, guess at the future and
make sense out of today.
Read. Your public library has thousands
of books,-all which are yours for the asking.
And add books to your own library. With
each book you add, your home grows big-
ger and more interesting.
We've been in love with this advertise-
ment for National Library Week ever since
it first appeared because it says so well
how we ourselves feel about
books. We reproduce it here
(obviously — but only
slightly — modified) with
the kind permission of
the American Library Association.
If these words speak to you, too, we cor-
dially invite you to visit us. To talk with us
over a cup of coffee about the newest (or
the oldest) books . . . about how delicious
a leather binding smells ... about that first
edition you found in the dusty bin of a New
York bookstore . . . or to spend some time
at our reading table with one of our books.
Of course, we'd be delighted if you
should buy one, too. For a child, a friend,
a business associate.
We'll gift-wrap it, find an appropriate
card for it, and even deliver it for you if
you like. (We don't call ourselves. "the
Compleat Bookstore" idly.)
But whether you mean to buy a book or
not, please stop by the next time you're
in the neighborhood and to-
gether we'll arrange - afew
letters of the alphabet
in affectionate conver-
sation about books.
cflie Compleal Booksiore
EVERGREEN PLAZA .12 MILE AND EVERGREEN SOUTHFIELD MICHIGAN 48076 557-8803