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When the going gets tough, the TOUGH BUY BOOKS
I felt sort of bummed out last night and tonight, so I went out and bought a shitload of books. My travels took me through two Half Price Books and a Barnes & Noble, with a stop at Chipotle for dinner along the way.
I guess the good part is that I spent enough to get the Half Price Books 2006 calendar, which means COUPONS! Whee!
Let's see. My Halfpriceage:
Secrets of Baseball because it looked amusing.
Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves because hot damn, another whole book of baseball poetry, not just Casey At The Bat parodies!
Diamonds in the Rough because I had no idea that so much baseball went on in Alaska, of all places.
One Pitch Away because the other Mike Sowell book I read was absolutely amazing, and the stories of the 1986 postseason in this one looked interesting.
(I got a bunch of movies for like $2-3 each as well: Emma, Gosford Park, Field of Dreams, Shawshank Redemption, The Terminal, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Yes, I've seen most of these before; The Terminal and Gosford Park are the ones I have not. Carl would probably be amused to note that I almost bought Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey movies as well, but decided it wasn't worth it since he's not here, and who else would be nuts enough to want to go on a Jane Austen movie-watching spree?)
At Barnes and Noble I picked up the following:
Idiot, because well, I think it'll be amusing in light of his recent ahem, career path change;
Juicy, because well, uh... actually, I have no idea why I bought this. I picked it up and started thumbing through it and found myself wildly fascinated and disgusted all at once. It was 50% off.
Believe It! because I bought a Red Sox book when they won the World Series last year, so figured I'd get a White Sox book this year. Also the first page of the book is the exact same picture I currently use as my desktop image except taken from the opposite angle. I ♥ Joe Crede.
Anyway, the problem is that I already had about five books in my queue before going shopping for more. Oh well. Book shopping rules. I'll have to find some time to scour the east-side Half Prices one of these days. I still wonder how many books I read in 2005. I'm seriously guessing it at around 40; I should have kept better track. I want to drive down to Powell's one of these days, too.
I finally bothered making a "books" icon. It sort of sucks but it'll do until I figure out something better.
Oh, and by the way, does anyone want a free copy of Pro Football Prospectus 2005? Jonah Keri gave me a copy when I was at that Baseball Prospectus event a few weeks back, and well, I can't seem to find anyone who likes football and actually reads books about it, so otherwise, it'll probly go to Half Price next time I make a book run.
I guess the good part is that I spent enough to get the Half Price Books 2006 calendar, which means COUPONS! Whee!
Let's see. My Halfpriceage:
Secrets of Baseball because it looked amusing.
Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves because hot damn, another whole book of baseball poetry, not just Casey At The Bat parodies!
Diamonds in the Rough because I had no idea that so much baseball went on in Alaska, of all places.
One Pitch Away because the other Mike Sowell book I read was absolutely amazing, and the stories of the 1986 postseason in this one looked interesting.
(I got a bunch of movies for like $2-3 each as well: Emma, Gosford Park, Field of Dreams, Shawshank Redemption, The Terminal, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Yes, I've seen most of these before; The Terminal and Gosford Park are the ones I have not. Carl would probably be amused to note that I almost bought Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey movies as well, but decided it wasn't worth it since he's not here, and who else would be nuts enough to want to go on a Jane Austen movie-watching spree?)
At Barnes and Noble I picked up the following:
Idiot, because well, I think it'll be amusing in light of his recent ahem, career path change;
Juicy, because well, uh... actually, I have no idea why I bought this. I picked it up and started thumbing through it and found myself wildly fascinated and disgusted all at once. It was 50% off.
Believe It! because I bought a Red Sox book when they won the World Series last year, so figured I'd get a White Sox book this year. Also the first page of the book is the exact same picture I currently use as my desktop image except taken from the opposite angle. I ♥ Joe Crede.
Anyway, the problem is that I already had about five books in my queue before going shopping for more. Oh well. Book shopping rules. I'll have to find some time to scour the east-side Half Prices one of these days. I still wonder how many books I read in 2005. I'm seriously guessing it at around 40; I should have kept better track. I want to drive down to Powell's one of these days, too.
I finally bothered making a "books" icon. It sort of sucks but it'll do until I figure out something better.
Oh, and by the way, does anyone want a free copy of Pro Football Prospectus 2005? Jonah Keri gave me a copy when I was at that Baseball Prospectus event a few weeks back, and well, I can't seem to find anyone who likes football and actually reads books about it, so otherwise, it'll probly go to Half Price next time I make a book run.