{"id":563,"date":"2012-01-31T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=563"},"modified":"2012-01-31T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T00:12:35","slug":"breaking-the-book-buying-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/31\/breaking-the-book-buying-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Book Buying Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, I have stuck with my resolution not to buy books. \u00a0The local library is tiny but has a great fiction selection. \u00a0I could have easily walked away with three or four when I visited earlier this week. \u00a0I limited myself to just two: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff,<\/a> a tale of Mormons and polygamy set in the time of Brigham Young, and A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear<\/a>, which is part of her Maisie Dobbs mystery series. \u00a0It was the latter that caused the most temptation I’ve faced so far.<\/p>\n

I have read the first two books in the series–Maisie Dobbs<\/a> and Birds of a Feather<\/a>. \u00a0But this one is the eighth book in the series and as I read the cover blurb, I realized I wanted to continue to read them in order since besides being great mysteries, they tell the story of Maisie’s life. \u00a0All the books are available on the Kindle; there is even a bundled set of the 3rd and 4th books for a mere $15. \u00a0And Kindle books don’t take up any shelf space at all. \u00a0But a resolution is a resolution so I headed to the library website and put in my request to have it brought from another branch. \u00a0Now, I wait patiently to get the email indicating it has arrived. In the mean time, I am immersed in I Know This Much Is True<\/a> by Wally Lamb, which came form my own collection.<\/p>\n

I also kept my resolution at the library itself which is selling a bag of books for just $2! \u00a0Truth be told, there wasn’t much of interest on the carts but that hasn’t ever stopped me before.<\/p>\n

NB: I made it through a visit to Books A Million where I drank a latte, surfed the web and only browsed. \u00a0But they gave me a $5 coupon for online and I ended up with the second volume of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Chronicles, The Pale Horseman<\/a>. The first book in the series–The Last Kingdom<\/a>–is already on the shelf and the sixth volume–The Death of Kings<\/a>–just came out. \u00a0LOTS more reading to look forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So far, I have stuck with my resolution not to buy books. \u00a0The local library is tiny but has a great fiction selection. \u00a0I could have easily walked away with three or four when I visited earlier this week. \u00a0I limited myself to just two: The 19th Wife by David \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[50,11],"tags":[86,127,121,126,125],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-95","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}