The one book I wanted really badly was Paul Carr's The Upgrade but it wasn't there. I have to order it from Amazon and then I have to decide if I want it in actual book form or on my droid. This is not a serious problem, I realize, but disappointing for sure.
I usually buy my calendar this time of year but I bought one for my birthday. I glanced at the journals but I already have too many unused ones. They sure are tempting though, aren't they? I already did the after-Christmas shopping for cards so I started with the sale racks.
Some day I am going to buy the classics and read/reread them. They had a lovely set of classics that I considered but it felt like buying homework so I continued on.
I did check my Amazon wish list for books I had saved but there wasn't really one that jumped out at me. I thought Emily Giffin had a new book out but I was wrong. Then I blanked on author names that I wanted to check.
This turned out to be a good thing though as it forced me to go one by one down each bookshelf. I did eventually remember who I wanted to look for but it didn't much help. One book that I read & loved the author only wrote one book, how unfair is that?
I must have made the security folk nervous because I kept circling and circling the same shelves. There are entire areas of the store that I am not interested in: science fiction, cookbooks, and self-help. I glanced at teen fiction and history section but it was more out of boredom than anything else.
Eventually I realized that I was carrying eight, EIGHT, books. I did some quick math and realized that I was finished shopping. This didn't stop me from checking out the magazine racks though.
Then I spotted the Nook kiosk. My cards would pay for a Nook and I enjoyed playing with one of the bigs Kindle. (great story I will share later) I looked at the stack of books then back at the Nook then back at the stack.
There is just something about holding an actual book that I can't let go. I understand the lure of having many books in a device smaller than a magazine but it's just not the same.
I don't believe that the cashier quite understood my delight/embarrassment at having a stack of gift cards and still having to pay $5.33.
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What a fun haul!
ReplyDeleteYES, the journals are SO TEMPTING. If I didn't use control, I'd have about thirty of them, I think. ...Fine, probably more like fifty. Or eighty, WHATEVER.
YES to feeling like buying homework! What a good way to put it! I think I'll check the classics out of the library. Well, unless they'd look pretty on the shelf: I love those ones that came out recently with gorgeous covers!
Mecca is right - had there been a Barnes & Noble anywhere in my known world when I was in my teens, I would probably be working there still with no further career goals ever considered. I love the feeling of holding a book too - but I did succomb to a nook a couple years ago. Love it. But just walking into a B&N store? Heavenly!
ReplyDeleteI am a book hoarder. We have a Planned Parenthood book sale twice a year, and I end up with boxes of books for like $20. I also go to Goodwill and look through their books...and it's pretty much the best reason to go to garage sales. (I'm not snobbish about second hand books.)
ReplyDeleteI am slowly making a dent in the list of classics I feel like I should have read or should remember better. I finally made it through "Wuthering Heights" a few months back after having declared it unreadable in my teens.
My mom has a Nook, and I think sticking to tree-killing books is the way to go. She's had to replace it once, and had to replace the charging cord twice. I never have to charge my books, and can take them anywhere.
:-) Rambling, but there you go.