I had to go to the local library yesterday, to pick up a book for Thing 2's summer reading, and of course I couldn't get out of there without anything for
myself, could I?
I ended up finding these four books -- two were from the sale shelves (trade paperbacks in good shape for a quarter each!), and two were actual real library books that need to go back once I read them:
Nickel and Dimed![](https://lh3-testonly.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tYZAwFLRziz1T9Mj7sKwdzRclaKtPV-hFtrY9bgOF2abqkUqsfgt3f2-HazMc1VJQXprsvK7IJAdsGA19XRQBsN9A6WpeA6T11H9PGCStvMbwDtDfCwM_wl0QKn6jeGnp7-mgfLIv1djpVYofN=s0-d)
by Barbara Ehrenreich -- yeah, it's a decade old at this point, but that's probably
why a copy was available for a quarter. And I still haven't read it.
A Sundial in a Grave: 1610![](https://lh3-testonly.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sdAjAW5P3NzkD-2VsEKysrNadAfr--ATggpKyjpNmw-XO57HL_Hj_xSadU-xLpy2u3AQPFjzekoVzLN4H1t-l9cfMC_H89WqB_crCIfqr4KcpChXi1wbP-5zr9HBbi1EEHkGhyqL-671l1NL_8=s0-d)
by Mary Gentle -- I'm way behind on reading Gentle, partially because (back in my SFBC days) the club members had repeated refused to buy her books (the ingrates!), so I couldn't really call it reading-for-work. I also think I used to have a copy of this (and of the four
Ash books, and who-knows-what else) before the flood, as well.
The Great Divergence![](https://lh3-testonly.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tATEP73Ts0BUWKaSkvCWYY5-NyM8VK30vKc8f2fviodbVQN51-qq3YZbG1KcJMCQRyn1fWL1sAqHQRmStFC-GWOfbPZwtFt81FhnGZMcbpG2wy04UrVUM3JJGNuP21_ohZWfGBLscz1OkiE0qy=s0-d)
by Timothy Noah, because it's not that long, and it's getting a lot of (generally admiring) media attention, and it looks to have actual facts and numbers behind it.
They Eat Puppies, Don't They?![](https://lh3-testonly.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uUt8U8rPVhoqNNjKioACU2A6sUWi_Wpl1bVvZde5ceBzIyegaqdMkRvVrMGfj3etrIvtId_BPrCGotRTOlthiyab6j99J-mCjqCGHB5zmkapIXPkoA6YGaMovUhQhMz1vsizCNRH7FvNbX1l50=s0-d)
by Christopher Buckley -- the latest of his humorous Washington novels, of which I am a fan. If I like it enough, there's every chance I'll even buy my own copy, eventually -- I think I have all the rest of his books on my shelves. (He's early in the alphabet, and I have him in hardcover, so he survived the deluge.)
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