Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Books and stuff

Today's trip to the library was a little more expensive than last week (natch, since we didn't buy anything at the sale last week).

Book sale total: $15.50. El Burrito got a Pooh book, two books about Biscuit the puppy, and another book about puppies, for 50 cents each. I got a Dover coloring book on Celtic fashions, and a signed copy of The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida. And I found two old military books for DH (the man who has a copy of the Army/Marine counterinsurgency manual, of all things) - a Ranger handbook and a 1960s field manual that belonged to a friend of DH's family (he died last fall, and a lot of his books were donated to the Friends group).

Returned 6 items, I think, including a kids' crochet book, the astronomy book I was reading last week, a Sesame Street DVD, and Drew Pinsky's book Cracked, which is sort of a memoir/autobiography, but also sort of not. I read it in just a couple of hours, so it was on the fluffier end of biographies.

Checked out 8 books, including biographies/memoirs of Ron Howard and Tori Spelling. The Tori Spelling book is mainly for whatever tidbits are in there about her 2nd marriage, because her 2nd husband had a small part in Due South for most of the series. I'll admit to watching their Tori & Dean: Inn Love "reality" show, but there was a lot of eye-rolling going on.

Library total: 40 items out, 6 on hold.

And now it's back to Googling information on variegated ginger, and other odd things, like getting the address for a first-day cover of the Edwin Hubble stamp. I just found out he's from Missouri.

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