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July 23, 2007
surfing fearlessly, or how i read harry potter book seven in eleven hours and learned to love the web again
had to make two stops to track down a copy; first stop was our local indie bookstore, the regulator, since i'd had no trouble getting the last book there without a reserved copy.
but oh! they had no unreserved copies and told frightening tales of the book being unavailable. "try somewhere obscure, like Sam's Club" they told me, without irony. okay, i'm paraphrasing a little, but that's basically what the woman said to me.
next stop: Costco, where there was a huge table of them. I noted the price briefly: $19. not bad, i guess. as i stood in line a woman tapped me on the shoulder and informed me that "you can get that book for $18 at wal-mart!" i explained that it was out at many stores in the area and i was just glad to get a copy. as she left, the woman ahead of me in line asked me how much it was here. I told her, and realized that of course driving across town to save a dollar was hardly worth it.
i was interrupted in my reading exactly three times: once by a call on my land-line from a woman claiming to be from a human rights organization. i told her "sorry" and hung up. once by a well-known scammer in the neighborhood who rang the doorbell and claimed to be collecting money for a children's charity. i grabbed my mace and my cell phone after that and kept them close by, although i don't think he's one of the ones with a history of crime, just door-to-door scamming. finally, a cell phone call i didn't answer from a tradesman who was quite confused and apparently thought he was supposed to meet with me today, but wasn't going to be able to. i'll return his call tomorrow.
oh, the book itself? what did i think? it was good.
Posted by lisa at July 23, 2007 10:29 PM
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Yes! Good! I liked it, too. I think it ended pretty much the way I wanted it to ...
Posted by: Lisa B on July 24, 2007 08:11 AM
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