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Me: Hi, could you write down the name 'Tim Flannery' for me?
A: How's it spelled?
Me: Two Ns E R Y
A: Would you like me to write down his phone number too?
Me: *long-suffering sigh* No, I'll just put that in my cell phone, thanks.
I have called A well into hour 2 at Borders, trying half-heartedly to find something to spend a $25 gift card on. If I could spend between $100 and $200 on books a month, I could probably pick up a stack quite easily. But the complex task of figuring out the best way to spend $25 is beyond me. The book must be a) unlikely to be found in a used book store or on Paperback Swap, and b) deemed likely to be a slightly better read than the thousands of books in the store which seem interesting. Finally, I settle on a travel anthology. It wins by virtue of the notion that I will meet many new authors for the price of one, and because I am in the travel section when I decide I'd much rather be home with A, watching a movie.
If you could buy one book a year, what would you buy?
A: How's it spelled?
Me: Two Ns E R Y
A: Would you like me to write down his phone number too?
Me: *long-suffering sigh* No, I'll just put that in my cell phone, thanks.
I have called A well into hour 2 at Borders, trying half-heartedly to find something to spend a $25 gift card on. If I could spend between $100 and $200 on books a month, I could probably pick up a stack quite easily. But the complex task of figuring out the best way to spend $25 is beyond me. The book must be a) unlikely to be found in a used book store or on Paperback Swap, and b) deemed likely to be a slightly better read than the thousands of books in the store which seem interesting. Finally, I settle on a travel anthology. It wins by virtue of the notion that I will meet many new authors for the price of one, and because I am in the travel section when I decide I'd much rather be home with A, watching a movie.
If you could buy one book a year, what would you buy?
