Of Course We Have Cheese, This is a Cheese Shop....

So, taking the last few of the books I declared not worthy of squeezing into my office shelf space to the little used book store down the street, I found that I have 40 dollars give or take of credit there. Cool! So I popped in to see if they had the kids' books that I planned to buy with the exchange. Not many. Nope. Amelia Bedelia is it really.

So, what the heck, I'll buy some paperbacks for me to read.

I picked out about five paperbacks from the sci-fi genre, and a hardback I've already read but not in hardback.

When I got the the counter, explained to the owner guy that I had credits, and he pulled up my credits, he said "oh, but you have general credits. You can't use those for sci fi."

Which, of course, was the bulk of my purchase (except for crazy old Amelia Bedelia).

I had looked at other sections of the book store's books, too. But nothing really jumped out at me. So now I have 40 bucks worth of credit at a book store where I don't really want to buy any books. It's like having a credit card with a big old limit and not wanting to buy any candy at the 7-11 (remember being a kid and thinking if only you had money you would buy one of everything? Well, the curse is by the time you have the money, you no longer want all that crap. At least not regularly).

Sigh. I'm sure it's some sort of cosmic punishment for all those late library books in my shady library past. Don't tell the library police you know where I am, by the way. I've been on the lam from them for years.

But speaking of libraries, I did take a couple of backpacks full of big hardbacks to the library to donate. That felt really good! This had to have been over 200 bucks worth of books, since a couple of them were the freebies I get from a publisher to review (I didn't review them cause they were like, book three in a series that I haven't read books 1 & 2 of). Since I grew up a library kid, spending millions of hours reading books and loving the library, this felt like a moment to give back a bit. A tiny chunk of the pleasure I have gotten I can now think of someone else getting from my donations. (Cause again, they're all decent books, just not books I wanted to keep).

Anyway. On that note: time for a nap. :)