I have ordered 'To kill a mockingbird'! I went to Waterstones and searched the shelves, it wasn't in fiction, it wasn't in classics...mystery. Then I got distracted by the other books - I've been watching 'Glamour's Golden Age' on BBC4 and am having a 1920s thing so I wanted Evelyn Waugh's 'Vile bodies'...also not there. It seems that they had one copy of each but they were both sold at the weekend - I must have a book choice doppelganger in Leicester pre-emptively buying all my books! either that or I've started sleepwalking again and have gone sleep-shopping and then squirreled the books away...I like to think that if I did sleep-shop I would sleep-shoeshop not sleep-bookshop, so I'm blaming the book doppelganger.
Anyway, they did have 'Decline and fall' so I got that. And then I saw 'On the road' which I half read in my first year of uni but apparently my short attention span had already set in by then because I didn't finish it. And that was on 3 for 2 so I decided to see whether they could order any of my books on 3 for 2.
Long story short (because let's be honest, this is not the most interesting story of my life...although it is kind of an exciting story just because it forms part of my 30 before 30) I ordered 'To kill a mockingbird' - a teeny tiny baby step towards No.11 :) And while I wait for it to arrive I have Decline and fall, my first book by a Bright Young Person,! and On the Road, and Norwegian Wood (the third of my 3 for 2, because I'm reading Dance, Dance, Dance at the moment and I'm loving my Murakami, but it's time to have a break from my Japanese phase now).
Wowzer, I just managed to say in 5000 words what could have been said in 15...it's a talent.
Summary - 'yay for me, I ordered a book' :)
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