Okay so you know those times when you are inspired to go on a book spending spree?
Well yesterday was one of those moments for me…
As I was going about my daily business trying to locate a good hairdresser and splurging a bit by means of “retail therapy” low-and-behold!
The QBD Bookshop in Strathpine had a ton of signs splashed around their shop screaming out crazy savings.
I thought. Meh.
Not thinking I would score any decent reads (except for the books in the kiddie’s shelves blaring at me to “buy them for the kids” with their pretty coloured covers) I did a quick ‘z-scan’, left-to-right, left-to-right of the shop (John has been teaching us about newspaper layouts and how a page can capture the reader’s attention effectively, totally true!)
and found to my delight:
Nelson Mandela’s Biography, $9.99 – mine.
Ray Martin’s Autobiography: Stories of my life – $9.99 – mine.
Autobiographies were looking good!
Then I saw it: Gasp!
William Shakespeare on The Art of Love – The Illustrated Edition of the most beautiful love passages in Shakespeare’s plays and poetry.
$59.99 reduced to (wait for it)
$9.99 BANG!
I swooped it off the shelf like a pro-crim.
Last one on the shelf was mine. Muahahahahahaha!
All I could think of was how beautifully captivating this book was…
It was so classic and old yet, brand new. Packaged. Ohhhh no one had opened this book yet…
I imagined.
Caressing its sonnet filled pages and strong hard, spine perusing over legendary filled words flowing rich with ……. well you get the idea.
My pulse was rising… I had to buy it.
The guy at the shop counter with his ever so gen-teel manner said,
“Oh my God, this is the last one, I bought this for my mother for a birthday present it’s so beautiful!”
Yep. And that’s why it’s mine. All mine.
I felt pretty elated at that point.
But it didn’t end there…
I entered another random bookstore to find…. gasp….more?!
Gawd this was just too much for me!
I think the whole quirky “discovery of languages” book thingy appealed to me…..
The Vulgar Tongue – Buckish Slang and Pickpocket Eloquence ($9.95) – mine. (David Stuart has this book too. As I said Dave “great minds!” )
Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary – Selections from the 1775 work that defined the English Language ($9.95) – mine.
Maybe it’s not everyone’s idea of exciting reading.
But i was whipped.
And in my “to-do” day of doing a bunch of girly shopping such a distraction usually wouldn’t have caused me to swoon over a bunch of books.
And spend money on em’.
Oh but “the lady doth protest too much!”
I’d never seen so many sweet books for less than $10.
Ten books later and I was a very satisfied customer.