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My sister and I had to go down to the county town today to get some papers and stuff handed around. Which meant I had to wear the flat black interview shoes instead of my sandals, for the first time in weeks, so my feet are kind of in bits. Heh. Plus, it's a fair walk in from the hospital bus stop into the town proper. Owie.
So, because we were in town, with business finished, and to distract from our aching feet, we went book shopping. *grins* I can't go clothes shopping to save my life, and shoe shopping is a matter of necessity at best, but show me a selection of bookshops, and I'm your girl. Heh.
The secondhand shop had gotten in a large collection of Wordsworth Editions Tales of Mystery & Supernatural, which was awesome, and netted me copies of Chambers' The King in Yellow, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and a collection of gothic romances including The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, and Nightmare Abbey. *grins* Which will do nicely for some light reading, I think. Heh.
Browsing through the town's three firsthand bookshops didn't gather that much of a haul. The main bookshop might have, because their history section is awesome, but unfortunately it's also on the expensive side. There are about fifteen different titles that I'd have sat down with in that section (medieval asia is a thing for me, at the minute), but alas, budget. *sighs*
On the fiction side of it, though, I did get the third Rivers of London book, and the first Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay (I've been curious for a while, thought I'd try it). Heh. Which brought the haul up to five books for me, and adding in three for my sister.
The bags were a lot heavier on the way home -_-; But I've at least a week's worth of reading in there, so it's all good. *grins faintly*
So, because we were in town, with business finished, and to distract from our aching feet, we went book shopping. *grins* I can't go clothes shopping to save my life, and shoe shopping is a matter of necessity at best, but show me a selection of bookshops, and I'm your girl. Heh.
The secondhand shop had gotten in a large collection of Wordsworth Editions Tales of Mystery & Supernatural, which was awesome, and netted me copies of Chambers' The King in Yellow, Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and a collection of gothic romances including The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, and Nightmare Abbey. *grins* Which will do nicely for some light reading, I think. Heh.
Browsing through the town's three firsthand bookshops didn't gather that much of a haul. The main bookshop might have, because their history section is awesome, but unfortunately it's also on the expensive side. There are about fifteen different titles that I'd have sat down with in that section (medieval asia is a thing for me, at the minute), but alas, budget. *sighs*
On the fiction side of it, though, I did get the third Rivers of London book, and the first Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay (I've been curious for a while, thought I'd try it). Heh. Which brought the haul up to five books for me, and adding in three for my sister.
The bags were a lot heavier on the way home -_-; But I've at least a week's worth of reading in there, so it's all good. *grins faintly*
