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Yesterday in the afternoon, Borders was selling the newest Pratchett, Unseen Academials, for half price, so I got it for thirteen dollars. In the evening I found a used bookstore in downtown Ann Arbor, not far from that The Gallery Project I went to. Much bigger than I thought it would be. It's called Dawn Treader Book Shop, and I spent forty-five dollars and fifty cents. Which, coincidentally, happened to be less than two dollars than what I was carrying on me. I found that interesting. If I'd bought any of those things that I'd really wanted but told myself weren't necessary, I wouldn't have had enough. Instead I bought exactly enough to be just barely able to pay.
Guess I should explain The Gallery Project. It's some kind of art thing where I felt extremely uncomfortable. My teacher wanted me and her other students to show up there wearing shirts she gave us, ones with her design on it. It got very crowded, I was quite underdressed, and there weren't a lot of others from my class. Well, I'm not very sociable, so I spent some time standing around feeling alienated. I did run into two people I knew and was semifriendly with at Adrian, but I started to get to that point where I think someone I'm talking to is annoyed with me. Plus, there was no food and I was starving. There was beer and wine, but I am twenty, and possibly the only underage person in the world who gives a damn about following laws like that. Mostly because I'm not at all interested in drinking, but still. So I left, and it's actually a good thing that I didn't buy food.
Anyway, at the Dawn Treader I found all kinds of things! It's kind of mazelike, the shelves are crammed, the floors have stacks of books everywhere, and they had to tell me they were closing before I went to the front to ring stuff up. Some of these books are ones I've seen and in some cases read, which I've seen in bookstores but didn't want to pay full new price for. Some are ones I've heard of but never seen.
First category: Mort (British cover art), Heir to the Empire, The Last Command, hardcover Vision of the Future. Second category: Diane Duane's The Door Into Fire and hardcover The Door Into Sunset (but not The Door Into Shadow, alas), Wing Commander: Freedom Flight, two books of The Conquerors Trilogy, and "Thunder of the Captains", which I only bought because Aaron Allston was listed as one of the authors, and I've never seen a book of Allston's that wasn't Star Wars. I also saw two issues of Galaxy of Fear, but I'm only interested in two issues of that, the one with Wedge and the one with Thrawn, and they weren't those.
Sunset's jacket - it's hardcover - has the original price. $21.95. Fire, softcover, was originally $2.95. They're old! All of the paperbacks cost me $3.50. Vision of the Future was $7.50 and Sunset was $10.95. Believe me, if there had been paperbacks of those two, I would have taken them.
Fortunately for my finances, I did have some more money at home. Still, I really shouldn't go back there for a while. Oy, where do I begin...
Guess I should explain The Gallery Project. It's some kind of art thing where I felt extremely uncomfortable. My teacher wanted me and her other students to show up there wearing shirts she gave us, ones with her design on it. It got very crowded, I was quite underdressed, and there weren't a lot of others from my class. Well, I'm not very sociable, so I spent some time standing around feeling alienated. I did run into two people I knew and was semifriendly with at Adrian, but I started to get to that point where I think someone I'm talking to is annoyed with me. Plus, there was no food and I was starving. There was beer and wine, but I am twenty, and possibly the only underage person in the world who gives a damn about following laws like that. Mostly because I'm not at all interested in drinking, but still. So I left, and it's actually a good thing that I didn't buy food.
Anyway, at the Dawn Treader I found all kinds of things! It's kind of mazelike, the shelves are crammed, the floors have stacks of books everywhere, and they had to tell me they were closing before I went to the front to ring stuff up. Some of these books are ones I've seen and in some cases read, which I've seen in bookstores but didn't want to pay full new price for. Some are ones I've heard of but never seen.
First category: Mort (British cover art), Heir to the Empire, The Last Command, hardcover Vision of the Future. Second category: Diane Duane's The Door Into Fire and hardcover The Door Into Sunset (but not The Door Into Shadow, alas), Wing Commander: Freedom Flight, two books of The Conquerors Trilogy, and "Thunder of the Captains", which I only bought because Aaron Allston was listed as one of the authors, and I've never seen a book of Allston's that wasn't Star Wars. I also saw two issues of Galaxy of Fear, but I'm only interested in two issues of that, the one with Wedge and the one with Thrawn, and they weren't those.
Sunset's jacket - it's hardcover - has the original price. $21.95. Fire, softcover, was originally $2.95. They're old! All of the paperbacks cost me $3.50. Vision of the Future was $7.50 and Sunset was $10.95. Believe me, if there had been paperbacks of those two, I would have taken them.
Fortunately for my finances, I did have some more money at home. Still, I really shouldn't go back there for a while. Oy, where do I begin...
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