Weekend Finds

Used book store finds from this weekend. I know I haven't been posting much, but I am just kinda swamped in life right now. Not so swamped that I didn't have time to run down to the used bookstore and use all my store credit.
Sadly, only one of these books is for me. The other three are Christmas presents. I picked up Full Bloom for $1 and the main reason that two friends on Goodreads gave it high ratings. I have never read anything by Jayne Ann Krentz/Stephanie Laurens, but I know she is popular. I am currently reading it and for it being over 20 years old, it isn't dated at all. Whether or not it is good remains to be seen.
Bitter is the New Black is a standby Christmas present for me. I really think one of the volunteers at my library will love it. I read Cutting for Stone for my book group and LOVED it. Love, love, love! So I thought my sister would appreciate it. Quest for Justice is for my dad, because he loves anything legal and this is a local author/lawyer.

I will try to get back to posting regularly. I have a couple of picture book reviews saved up that needed to be posted for the world to see.

The mystery of the stolen charger....

One of my part-time people asked me to come help with a situation with a patron regarding a charger of some form. I didn't know anything about the situation when I approached the patron.

Patron: Hi, the daytime security officer said I could plug my charger into the outlet next to the drink machine, but he said it might get stolen.

Me: Ok, was it stolen?

Patron: No, no one would want it. It cost $5 and it was very tattered.

Me: Ok, so what's going on?

Patron: Well, has anyone turned a charger in recently? Mine is gone.

Me: No, it was probably stolen.

Patron: Well, it was hidden between the coke machine. No one could see it.

Me: But obviously someone found because it isn't there.

Patron: But no one would want that charger.

Me: Obviously someone did. The security officer did warn you that it might be stolen.

Patron: He did, but no one would want that and it was hidden out of sight.



We had this conversation for like 10 more minutes until I handed it over to the security guard, who went on the same merry-go-around for 10 more minutes.

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Book Club 2013 Selection

My library book club's 2013 selections....

       January 8th - A Parchment of Leave by Silas House
       February 12th - Quest for Justice: Defending the Damned by Richard S.
                       Jaffe (Author will be present for Feb. 12th meeting)
       March 12th - A Grown-up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
       April 9th - 84 Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
                      by Helene Hanff
       May 14th - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
       June 11th - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
       July 9th - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
       August 13th - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by
                           Sherman Alexie
       September 10th - Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
       October 8th - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
       November 12th - Defending Jacob by William Landay
       December 10th - The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

In other news, I am alive. Just swamped with work and a new addiction to anythig

written by Lisa Kleypas. Seriously good.  

Oh, joy.