I should be banned from anywhere that has books for sale.

[adelynne]

I was biking around yesterday (mainly for exercise, also for the thrill of not getting run over my second time out in the streets), and biked into the square near my house as my penultimate stop on the way home. I wanted to go to the Goodwill to see if I could find one book that was really popular and yet very expensive in hardcover (non-fiction). So I wander in and start looking. No sign of the book I want, but oooh, look, there's Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic. "It's only $0.79," I say to myself, "And very small, it should fit into my bookbag easy."

...By the time I left the Goodwill I still hadn't found my book, but I dropped $7.50 on two hardcovers and four paperbacks. Three of which I'd already read and liked enough to want for my collection, one that looked to be a good Science Fiction anthology, one of which contains Elizabethan plays by Marlowe (Tamburlaine), Jonson, and whoever wrote The Duchess of Malfi - which I'm too lazy to get up and check right now.

I had to cart this stuff in a already partially full backpack home on my bike. I really ought not be allowed near books for sale.

Comments

[blue-blazes.livejournal.com]

Hee... Fun. =)

*suddenly has irresistable urge to go to a good used bookstore and drop at least $10*

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is I went to the Goodwill because I didn't think they'd have anything to tempt me with.

And then I had to go to six other stores to find the book I wanted. Very odd.

[lepapillon.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to go to the Goodwill to look for books. I've heard so many people have found great books there for such cheap prices. I need me some of that.

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about where I live is all the university students seem to be dropping old textbooks there.

I'll have to go through it in more depth sometime when I have money. And a "to read" list that isn't half my new bookshelf.

[hamsterwoman]

Hee! Yeah... (but, c'mon, six books for under eight dollars, how could that be reasonably passed up?)

Out local Goodwill does not have books of the non-supermarket-title varieties... which is probably a good thing on the whole. Because the last time I traveled by myself, for instance, I had to buy an extra piece of luggage to fit in all the books I had acquired on impulse...

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

True, true. That's sort of how I justified it. I was worried I wouldn't be able to bike home with them, though.

I actually went to Goodwill because I expected them to have only supermarket titles. I should have remembered that all the college students live here, too.

[grailquestion.livejournal.com]

Webster.

Look you, the stars shine still.

[adelynne.livejournal.com]

Merci beaucoup.