I estimated for every book I borrow from the library, instead of making a trip down to Kino, I would save about $20 on a weekly basis (average price of hardcover and paperback, and assuming I read one book every week), which would work out to about $1,000 annual savings if I read for one full year. And, Tah-daaaah, in three years, with the money I would have saved, I could afford a CHANEL 2.55. Woo Hoo!! Alternatively, I could invest in blue chips, but see how first.
In case you’re wondering, a 2.55 looks like this.
A very classic icon that goes with about everything in my wardrobe. I haven't decided on the color, but probably black. Before I digress, I finished a book yesterday. I liked it, just like Sharp Objects, and start to think that maybe books dealing with the Dark Side and mysteries/suspense are so much more fun than lighthearted stuff. Maybe that’s why I like investigation work so much. The bigger the fraud, the more SHIOK it is.
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield was classified as a gothic romance mystery in the style of Bronte by reviewers. The narrators were two females, one a celebrated author, and the other a biographer. Both practiced escapism through books.
The story paid tribute to lovely classics like The Secret Garden, and Jane Eyre with elements of ghosts, beautiful gardens, a house fire, good servants, absent parents, and kids behaving badly.
I did find the book too long initially, at 406 pages, but I couldn’t put down the book after I started. In the end, I finished it too fast.
Another sad and touching tale, and another $20 for the Chanel 2.55 fund.
2 comments:
I stopped buying books regularly about three years ago because I decided I could save a lot of money by just going to the library. So far, it's been working well. I'm lucky in that the libraries here allow you to reserve a book online. They e-mail you when the book has arrived, and they can deliver it to whichever branch is closest to you, too. I'm doubly lucky that I live close to both a city library at Newport Beach, and another library in the county system. Between the two of them, I can get almost everything!
Yah! Me too, I would go online and reserve the books I want for $1.55 each, on the NLB website. The books would be delivered to Marine Parade Library.
But, you know, I've always thought it will be nice to have a home library too, where you keep all your favourite books and movies. A comfortable day bed in a brightly lit room, which you can easily convert into a mini movie theatre as well.
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