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Dec. 5th, 2017 05:47 pmWe're doing a Secret Santa at work, and my recipient made the mistake of requesting something "readable."
"TIME FOR A TRIP TO THE BOOKSTORE!" I yelled, silently inside my head, and hied myself to the nearest Half Price Books to get the most bang for the $15 spending limit.
I got three books! Including two beautiful hardcovers. One of which was a beautiful copy of Code Name Verity, ON CLEARANCE, and while it hurts my soul to see Code Name Verity clearanced at least I will be sending it to a new and hopefully loving home.
Other finds include The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - it occurs to me, rather belatedly, that this is a lot of World War II; I do hope she likes that - and Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Egypt Game, because everyone's life is improved by having The Egypt Game in it.
Also, it was the only Zilpha Keatley Snyder book they had. I have been trawling the stores for ages looking for a copy of The Changeling, without any luck. Also hard to find: Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard. I have had this book stolen from me twice, because whenever I lend it out to people they fall so in love with it that (one can but presume) they forget that it isn't actually theirs.
"TIME FOR A TRIP TO THE BOOKSTORE!" I yelled, silently inside my head, and hied myself to the nearest Half Price Books to get the most bang for the $15 spending limit.
I got three books! Including two beautiful hardcovers. One of which was a beautiful copy of Code Name Verity, ON CLEARANCE, and while it hurts my soul to see Code Name Verity clearanced at least I will be sending it to a new and hopefully loving home.
Other finds include The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - it occurs to me, rather belatedly, that this is a lot of World War II; I do hope she likes that - and Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Egypt Game, because everyone's life is improved by having The Egypt Game in it.
Also, it was the only Zilpha Keatley Snyder book they had. I have been trawling the stores for ages looking for a copy of The Changeling, without any luck. Also hard to find: Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard. I have had this book stolen from me twice, because whenever I lend it out to people they fall so in love with it that (one can but presume) they forget that it isn't actually theirs.
