I had a little time between dropping off musically inclined family members at church and the service at which they performed, and I (re?)discovered that Hooked on Books is open on Sundays, and, well, I spent a few minutes there.
Most of the minutes were at the dollar book carts out front, from which I picked Functional React by Cristian Salcescu about the frontend framework; 3 Nights In August by Buzz Bissinger (which I thought I might already own–I picked it up 17 years ago and mean to read it one of these decades); and The Ultimate Guide to Tai Chi edited by John R. Little and Curtis F. Wong. I then went to the sale area in the back which is even emptier than it was the last time I was there, through the older books section and the classics and onto the philosophy section, where I picked up The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity by Daniel P. Reid.
I picked up The Gold of Friendship collected by Patricia Drier from the free book cart at church as I thought I might just sit in a pew for the hour preceding the service (but I opted to not). I’d placed two books on the cart this morning (the duplicate copy of The Story of Civilization: The Age of Voltaire that I picked up yesterday and 33 Days to Eucharistic Glory, a book I has received from some Catholic charity at least twice now–this being the duplicate of the first). 3 Nights in August will hit that same cart next week, I reckon.
All in all, it was about ten dollars and thirty minutes killed. And four books to linger on my to-read shelves for decades most likely.
