That's what happened to yesterday's post. So today I will keep it brief. Today's post is about my visit to Borders this afternoon, to finally use the $25 gift certificate I received from a co-worker on my birthday. Will went with me, because the temperature topped 100 again and we figured we can milk a couple of hours of air-conditioning out of it. Which didn't happen, by the way. If I was on my own I could have milked 2 hours of the visit, easy. But Will isn't so enamored with book stores as I do, so I refrained from perusing every shelves of every aisles and back again.
My first intention was to look for a guidebook for Melbourne, for our upcoming trip in October. I didn't end up being too impressed with any of the ones on the shelves, although I still walked out with 3 books. So here are my most recent purchase:
"Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink" - David Remnick, ed.
I've always liked the combination of articles and cartoons in The New Yorker. I'm rather indifferent to some of the articles that focused on local happenings (because I can't relate), but some of my favorite articles/stories/cartoons (and one poem I had committed to memory-although I had long since forgotten the author) have come from The New Yorker, and I have a collection of clipped illustrations & articles I had ripped out. This looks like a nice little collection of food and dining articles; I look forward to reading it. I hope this will prove to be much-needed consolation prize after my last acquisition yielded already 3 duds that I could not even endure to finish. This somehow feels less like a sin now than it did when I was younger, when I finished every book I picked-up out of a sense of duty. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Anyway. My second acquisition:
"The Clash" aka The Searing-Pink Clash Book
I had been aware of this book for a while, put it on my Amazon wish list but haven't been in a hurry to get it. Recently 2 friends mentioned that they had found it somewhere for 5 bucks. One of them said Borders. So Will wanted to check and sure enough, Borders had the books there for $5.99. It's written by the remaining members of The Clash and, I read, contains previously unseen materials. I haven't dived into it yet. The choice of color is a bit surprising.
My third acquisition:
"Weird California" - Greg Bishop, et al.
I have "Weird U.S." of the same series. An entertaining enough collection of local legends and curiosities , although sometimes the entries seem redundant. But for the purpose of casual reading it serves well.
This was the last copy on the shelf and the paperback cover was completely detached from the book. Will suggested inquiring about some discount. I did and they gave me 15% off. Not much considering the condition of the book, but better than nothing. I could have put it back but I thought I still got a good deal.
That's my book adventure for the day.
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