Books! Books for Free!
Make me happy.
Back when were decluttering the old place, we took a metric ton of books down to BookBuyers in Mountain View and traded them in for credit.. and promptly forgot about it.
The other night, as I was fighting between reading quickly because the book was close to its due date and wanting to linger over an awesome history of Venice, I remembered that credit. Confirmed with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kshandra where it was, and called them.
We have a lot of credit there.
So today I wandered over. Castro Street in Mountain View is one of those great suburban core shopping streets, a sort of British High Street with shops, restaurants, and nightspots. Really beautiful. Also, they planned for plenty of off-street parking. Not that I didn't see some parking jobs on the street that reminded me of a Great Dane trying to fit in a cat bed.
But anyway, I browsed around, mostly in the history section, and in their extensive science fiction section (which is huge) and found some really great books.
After checking out, I was walking towards the door. Immediately after commenting about there was just too much neat stuff there, I practically leapt for another book
A good day.
Back when were decluttering the old place, we took a metric ton of books down to BookBuyers in Mountain View and traded them in for credit.. and promptly forgot about it.
The other night, as I was fighting between reading quickly because the book was close to its due date and wanting to linger over an awesome history of Venice, I remembered that credit. Confirmed with
kshandra where it was, and called them.We have a lot of credit there.
So today I wandered over. Castro Street in Mountain View is one of those great suburban core shopping streets, a sort of British High Street with shops, restaurants, and nightspots. Really beautiful. Also, they planned for plenty of off-street parking. Not that I didn't see some parking jobs on the street that reminded me of a Great Dane trying to fit in a cat bed.
But anyway, I browsed around, mostly in the history section, and in their extensive science fiction section (which is huge) and found some really great books.
- Thessalonica by Harry Turtledove
- Sailing from Byzantium by Colin Wells
- The Borgias and Their Enemies 1431-1519 by Christopher Hibbert
- Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries 610-1071 by Romilly Jenkins
After checking out, I was walking towards the door. Immediately after commenting about there was just too much neat stuff there, I practically leapt for another book
- Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard
A good day.