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feather_ghyll) wrote2018-11-08 06:21 pm
feather_ghyll) wrote2018-11-08 06:21 pm
PERSONAL: Adventures in book shopping
Last week, I was asking myself 'What is wrong with me?' I was browsing around an antiques shop, not a great haunt for books, but I saw a pile of them. Enid Blytons mainly, but one or two proper girls owns. However, one of them was a 'Dimsie' and one of them a 'Susan', so I decided to be sensible and consult my list at home before buying anything. So, I returned to the shop the next day, with the list, discovered that I did own the aforementioned books and picked up three I didn’t.
But I was careless about checking all their prices. All the ones I’d checked were a fiver, which is within tolerance levels, but at the payment desk, the seller drew to my attention to the fact that one, by a writer I’d never come across before, was £22. There are some books by some authors I might pay that much for. At a push. On a good day. This did not meet those criteria.
So, I paid £10 for two books, but admit I was thinking more of the books that I hadn’t bought. One of the books I purchased was ‘Daisy’ by ‘Elizabeth Wetherell’. It was only when I got home that I flicked through the pages and felt a sense of recognition. It was the same story as ‘Daisy’ by Susan Warner, reviewed here. Wikipedia points out that ‘Elizabeth Wetherell’ was Susan Warner’s pen name. I’m not sure which copy I’ll keep, but I was so vexed at myself for my carelessness. If I buy a double copy from a charity shop, that’s one thing, and as you can tell, I'm trying not to, but with another shop it’s such a waste. I’ve only myself and my overexcitement to blame, because just as I haven't read much over the past month and a half, I haven't been book shopping either.
But I was careless about checking all their prices. All the ones I’d checked were a fiver, which is within tolerance levels, but at the payment desk, the seller drew to my attention to the fact that one, by a writer I’d never come across before, was £22. There are some books by some authors I might pay that much for. At a push. On a good day. This did not meet those criteria.
So, I paid £10 for two books, but admit I was thinking more of the books that I hadn’t bought. One of the books I purchased was ‘Daisy’ by ‘Elizabeth Wetherell’. It was only when I got home that I flicked through the pages and felt a sense of recognition. It was the same story as ‘Daisy’ by Susan Warner, reviewed here. Wikipedia points out that ‘Elizabeth Wetherell’ was Susan Warner’s pen name. I’m not sure which copy I’ll keep, but I was so vexed at myself for my carelessness. If I buy a double copy from a charity shop, that’s one thing, and as you can tell, I'm trying not to, but with another shop it’s such a waste. I’ve only myself and my overexcitement to blame, because just as I haven't read much over the past month and a half, I haven't been book shopping either.