PERSONAL: Perception and serendipity
Feb. 18th, 2010 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllBookshops moving can be quite distracting. It's better than bookshops closing down, obviously, but if you don't know that they've moved, you assume the second eventuality has taken place. And if sleet is falling and one out of the three charity shops in a town is closed for renovations, you are quite entitled to get grumpy and go buy a proper lunch in a nice, warm pub. Your sulking may be enlivened by a loud conversation about health and visits to fortune tellers between a pair of ladies who lunch.
However, jut when you're giving up and are on your way to the fruit shop and bakery to ensure that you will have spent more than your fare and you find the shop you were looking for...oh joy. (A proper second-hand bookshop and quite decently lit too).
I managed to break my girls own price limit (there was another book that I also wanted that cost five pounds more, and I didn't buy that, which is how I justified it to myself). I got an Angela Brazil, a DFB, an Evelyn Smith, two other non girls owns and a book where a character's name is Applegard and they're called Apple. I will not think of the grand total. It feels like more when you're doling it out in notes.
I checked when was the last time I bought a girls own book because it felt as though there'd been a drought - it depends on the definition. Certainly, it's been a while since I bought a book set in a girls' school and it's also been a while since I bough enough books to weigh down a carrier bag on their own. It's been a couple here and a couple there. Of course, as I am currently realising that space for all these books really is a problem, maybe that's a good thing.
However, jut when you're giving up and are on your way to the fruit shop and bakery to ensure that you will have spent more than your fare and you find the shop you were looking for...oh joy. (A proper second-hand bookshop and quite decently lit too).
I managed to break my girls own price limit (there was another book that I also wanted that cost five pounds more, and I didn't buy that, which is how I justified it to myself). I got an Angela Brazil, a DFB, an Evelyn Smith, two other non girls owns and a book where a character's name is Applegard and they're called Apple. I will not think of the grand total. It feels like more when you're doling it out in notes.
I checked when was the last time I bought a girls own book because it felt as though there'd been a drought - it depends on the definition. Certainly, it's been a while since I bought a book set in a girls' school and it's also been a while since I bough enough books to weigh down a carrier bag on their own. It's been a couple here and a couple there. Of course, as I am currently realising that space for all these books really is a problem, maybe that's a good thing.
