I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!So DH whined and wheedled (actually not that bad, I'm exaggerating) until he talked me into letting him buy The Hunger Games trilogy in hard back. I am very adverse to buying things that take up space right now and I would have been perfectly content to wait for them from the library and buy them later when they were all out in paperback and we had a new house with space for them. But he had got the first book on Playaway and he absolutely thought he was going to die if he could not immediately read the second book the minute he finished it.
He spent $65 on the set. Ouch, hard backs are expensive. But honestly I don't really begrudge this. We are both supposed to get $100 spending money every six weeks anyway, but we've just been kind of lax about actually taking that much. Too focused on debt reduction most of the time. But he pointed out that all four of us would read the trilogy and likely reread it in the future, so I decided I would clear some of my meager shelf space for them.
I have some magazines that I am only keeping for the recipes so I will copy them into a Word file and then take the magazines down to the library and drop them in the free magazine bins in the basement. That should clear enough shelf space to give the books a home.
My copy that I put on hold of the first book just came in to the library. I was 148 on the list when I signed up. I will still get it because DD has already absconded with the first boughten book. She loved the same author's Gregor the Overlander books.
I finally finished reading The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen. I had it on hold for 3 months before it became available. It was pretty good. A little less suspenseful than her previous Rizzoli and Isles books, but full of interesting Chinese folklore about the Monkey King. I also noticed a lot less swearing (thankfully) in it than is the norm for her books. It was weird going back to a book after having watched the first two seasons of the TV series, where the characters all have the same names but many aspects of them are vastly different.
Now I'm back to reading Elizabeth Moon again. I've started the second Esmay Suiza book. I find I'm doing a lot more reading these days than I used to, but since it's all from the library it's free entertainment.
Spending Money
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R@50--I think I tried to read one once but couldn't get into it because of the writer's style.
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