Please don’t do that, @CSIHSIS. Would you want to buy a used item - book, clothing, whatever - thinking it was/paying the price for new? Whether we like it or not, we are all in this together and it’s bad karma to cheat others. Yes, lots of people cheat, but you’re a better person if you don’t.
Maybe I am reading it incorrectly, but I thought @CSIHSIS returned the book because she got the wrong one?
I’ll bet you’re right, acollegestudent, and shame on me for misinterpreting what CSIHSIS said. Many apologies, CSI - it sounded to me as if you were saying you hadn’t paid for a book you read in more than a year. Now I see that isn’t what you were saying and I’m embarrassed that I read it wrong. Sorry for the unnecessary lecture.
I really, really loved 11/22/63. I want to reread it, but it’s so long and I am trying to read a certain number of books for the year for the goodreads challenge, so I can’t take that much time out for a reread until I get ahead a bit.
Nope, CSIHSIS said on 3/12 that she read Gone Girl in two days and then said she returned it for the King book. Seems to me the excuse was handy but was not necessary because no questions were asked. Seems pretty clear.
^^Correct. Since we don’t have post numbers to reference, here is the link to the earlier post:
<a href=“One of the best books I've read in the last 6 months is . . - #2366 by CSIHSIS - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums”>One of the best books I've read in the last 6 months is . . - #2366 by CSIHSIS - Parent Cafe - College Confidential Forums;
This will throw you-- when I worked at Border’s they checked out books to the employees to borrow for free just like the library. I did it all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if B&N does it, too. Maybe you’ve been buying used books all this time and don’t know it!
A terrific bunch of little reads is The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes, a collection of vignettes of vets dealing with zoo and wild animals. Example: they rescue a young male bottleneck dolphin in CA, nurse him to health - with an explanation of how that needs to be done - and then release him next to the group of bottlenecks nearby … except he goes under the boat and heads the other way. After 3 weeks, they saw he was barely moving around. After 76 days, they lost transmission and decided he must be dead so they sent out a plane to recover the body for study … and when they got close, they heard the transmitter coming from a group of bottleneck dolphins … because he’d swum home to be with his family. Genetic testing eventually came through and proved that.
Well ow. I’m actually male, but whatever.
The book store would not take back a book that’s been read, so I don’t know what anyone’s talking about.
We’re talking about these posts of yours:
March 12
“Just read Gone Girl in around two days and I feel sad because I finished.”
March 13
“Went back to B&N today and returned Gone Girl and got 11/22/63..”
Maybe you can clarify?
I hardly ever buy books. We have a great library system.
I’ve been reading Amy Hempel’s short stories. I believe they were recommended several months ago by cartera, and I wanted to thank her! I love short stories and it is such a difficult genre to get right. Amy’s stories are exquisite. Truly.
If you like science fiction, I just finished “Leviathan Wakes”.by James Corey and enjoyed it. Space opera, with good characters and interesting plot. Don’t be put off if you download it to your Nook or Kindle – it isn’t really 900+ pages – they bundle it with a fantasy book by the same author (I thought I had 400 pages to go when it finished!).
I bought the book “The year of Magical Thinking” a few years ago at B&N. Got three quarters through it and the last quarter was a repeat of the second quarter of it. In other words, the book I had was a dud and there had been a mistake in the assembly of it. It did not contain the last quarter.
Shortly after realizing this, I was in B&N and realized that I should have brought it back with me so I told the sale clerk about what happened and asked if i could bring it back for a refund or a replacement copy so that I could finish it. He replied “Sure. If it’s in good condition!”
Good condition?! Well…it’s missing the last 75 pages or so but other than that, it’s in great condition!
I’ve been reading Alice Munro’s collection of short stories, Dear Life, but I had to take a break from the intensity. It doesn’t do them justice to just gulp them down one after another.
I am not normally fond of short stories, but Munro is an exception to that rule. What a master she is.
I would also heartily recommend Monica Wood’s collection “Ernie’s Ark.” Or, in fact, any of her novels or her memoir, “When We Were the Kennedys.” Wonderful writer.
Just finished “Those Who Save Us.” I really enjoyed it. Thanks to the folks who recommended it. I started Dennis Hopper’s biography. So far, the biggest surprises have been about Natalie Wood.
Consolation, when you’re done with Dear Life, you might enjoy the CC Book Club’s discussion from December: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1563943-dear-life--december-cc-book-club-selection-p1.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1563943-dear-life--december-cc-book-club-selection-p1.html</a>
After some general comments, we looked at the stories one-by-one, in order (starting on page two of the thread).
Thanks, Mary13! I will do that.
I just finished Bill Bryson ’ s book, One Summer- 1929 in America. I really enjoyed it. So many important things happened that year.
I decided to combine another book with my Dennis Hopper book so I just started Invention of Wings last night. Not sure I could be reading two books that contrast more.