Tuesday, at 9:30, the youngest came down the stairs after work and sought a business self-improvement book for a project due that night. He’s the one who said, in fourth grade, that whatever book Ms. Cole was going to assign them to read, we already had a copy of it. So he was pretty confident that we could get him something immediately.
Ah, and gentle reader, if you pay attention to my Good Book Hunting posts, I have been wont in the past to pick up books on how to be a better salesman, how to be a better manager, and so on and so on and Scooby Doobie Doo. But I have dewonted myself recently from buying more of them because they just don’t interest me that much–much like I’ve moved away from political books which I bought in the early part of the century.
However, no matter how often these books get in the way when I am looking for something to read, I could not instantly find one or more to suit his needs.
I did, however, find two copies of Bocaccio’s The Decameron (bought first in 2021 and again in 2024).
Well, now I have to determine which to put on the free book cart in church, where my duplicates are going to live forever because I’m the only one who looks at the free book cart these days. Maybe I’ll recall all of my free books and put them in the little free library in either Battlefield or Republic where they can likewise molder whilst spicy monster, erm, romances move along (link via Sarah Hoyt @ Instapundit).
Oh, and seconds later, I gave him Tools of the Titans by Tim Ferriss which was probably a gift from my beautiful wife who also owns a copy.
So the so-often-happenses:
- Son needs a book for a school project at the last minute.
- We can find a book quickly to fit the need.
- Brian J. finds a duplicate of a classic.
Also, note that I might yet have another copy of it somewhere if it’s in a Classics Club edition which I might have acquired before the I started with the Good Book Hunting posts (mostly so I can reminisce about buying a book when I finally read it many years later). Which also it-so-often-happens at Nogglestead.
