Shopping!
I was a bit bored last night, and I’d been in all day working on my search for my dissertation. So Newt decided that I needed to get out of the house. I didn’t fancy going for a meal, and there was nothing on at the cinema that we wanted to see, so we decided to go to the out-of-town Borders! Also because I’d been moaning that I didn’t know what to read, and I didn’t fancy any of the books I’d got.
It’s actually pretty nice there. There’s a Starbucks upstairs (but I’m not sure whether that was open), and there’s more space than the one in town, and it wasn’t too busy.
Unfortunately, the down side is, we spent an obscene amount of money. I succcumbed to their “3 for 2″ offers – two of them actually, so I suppose that’s “6 for 4″! I also got a couple of ‘pop-science’ books that are on my wish list, and a couple of magazines. Newt got a Daoist magazine, and a couple of books.
Here’s a complete list of our haul:
Simply Knitting magazine (I fancy learning how to knit)
Cross Stitch Collection magazine
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve
The Other Woman by Jane Green
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman by Richard P Feynman
Adam’s Curse by Brian Sykes
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCulloch
Archangel by Robert Harris
The Empty Vessel (Daoist magazine)
A bookmark
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You know, I work for Borders (but at a Waldenbooks here in the US) and it’s interesting to see that we’re running the same promos, across store brands and countries. And as an employee of said company, I fail to see how spending an obcene amount of money there is a bad thing.
Sounds like fun! I’d like to hear what you think of Jane Austen Book Club, as it’s on my to read list.
You know, I work for Borders (but at a Waldenbooks here in the US) and it’s interesting to see that we’re running the same promos, across store brands and countries. And as an employee of said company, I fail to see how spending an obcene amount of money there is a bad thing.
Sounds like fun! I’d like to hear what you think of Jane Austen Book Club, as it’s on my to read list.