nov 20 - purty lady
at the penguin book sale.
pick up my house in umbria
pick up desperate housewives coffee table book (8 ringit!!!)
put down desperate housewives coffee table book
pick up homer's illiad
pick up dress your family in denim and corduroy
put down homer's illiad
pick up 100 little ghost stories
pick up the merry wives of windsor
contemplate the only RM5 copy of pride and prejudice, creased badly. dismissed.
pick up dr jekyll and mr hyde
put down dress your family in corduroy and denim
wonder over next section
PICK UP JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORELL OMG IT'S LIKE IT FELL DOWN FROM THE SKY WITH A SILENT !PLOP! HYPERVENTILATE HYPERVENTILATE
tell self ok ENOUGH books for YOU FIND CHOCOLAT and THAT'S IT
pick up second jonathan strange and mr norell*
put down merry wives on windsor
put down dr jekyll and mr hyde
pick up dress your family in corduroy and denim
contemplate plum sykes (!!!)
pick up milan kundera the last... something (only because natinski and mooke has mentioned)
put down dress your family in corduroy and denim (they're both funny... maybe just one first)
put down 100 little ghost stories
tell self NO, SERIOUSLY, STOP PICKING YOUR BOOKS FIND CHOCOLAT ONLY
pick up selected ghost stories from roald dahl
DAMMIT! STOP
pick up the count of monte cristo
no chocolat found
pay
*this pretty lady must have seen me quietly hyperventilating because she came up to me and said: "there is another version of that with a prettier cover."
and i said, "really!"
and she said, "yeah, it's white, and it's somewhere over there."
and i said, "thanks!"
and she said, "yeah, it's a really good book."
and i said, "yeah! i've been looking for it forever and in the stores it's like... FORDEE?"
and she said, "i know! i bought it full price and i had to stop myself from buying it again... here let me look for it for you."
and she went somewhere over there, and i followed, and then she found it and so i got the second one with an introduction by Audrey Niffenegger with a group-discussion guide. and a prettier cover. and it was so nice of her to do that. as opposed to me who considered demanding everyone who visited the penguin classic section to "FIND ME JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. NOW, GOURD!" also, because she didn't laugh(or blink) at my stupid american wannabe version of forty. thanks purty lady!