Today, I was dropping kid 3 at a
friend’s house and I saw a banner for a book sale. Oooh… maybe they will have
those missing volumes of Mary Stewart I was looking for, I thought.
I took kid 1 with me and thirty-one
books later we staggered out the door again. They were priced at one dollar
each and the money went to Lifeline, an Aussie charity. At one stage a nice
lady handed me a large cardboard box to put them all in.
One thing that was interesting was
to see how often the same volumes had been donated: lots of new Bourne by van
Lustbader (I admit to marking that one ‘did not finish’ myself), Patricia
Cornwell, Paullina Simons and Tom Clancy.
I was very surprised to see
Rosemary Rogers in the romance section. I used to read her bodice rippers in
junior high school. Most notably, out loud to all my friends in a ‘hey get a
load of this’ way. It was a recent one, too. I came home and Googled her to
find that she is eighty-one and still writing. That’s something we can all
aspire to.
But now, my Goodreads to-read list
is 150 books.
Sigh.
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