bojojoti | Kansas City Weekend-Part Three (Reply)

Bumberjean shared a favorite bookstore, Half Price Books. I miss the used books stores I used to frequent at home. They've all closed over the years. A new one opened after my favorite closed, but the people running it were unbelievably rude the first time the brood and I visited, and we haven't returned.

I was delighted to pick up Phantastes by George MacDonald and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley. Both were old paperbacks but the price was right: $2.62 including tax! Score!

Poor Bojoette suffered a public library and a used book store in the same day. Dear thing is suffering over-exposure to literature. She is an excellent reader, but she doesn't derive the sort of pleasure from it that I do. Evidently.

Ah, the broad smile from a happy reader in book heaven. Even Bojojr looks happy. He doesn't read for pleasure. Actually, he would debate that assessment, so I should say that he doesn't read fiction. He likes to read to increase his knowledge. We have had debates about fiction improving one's knowledge and enhancing wisdom (naturally I maintain it does, but he doesn't view it the same way or enjoys arguing too much to concede). Anyway, here he is parked in the business section, whilst Bumberjean's arms are filled with fantasy, I believe. It's grand when Bojojr makes a sweeping comment about books becoming obsolete to have another gasp of horror blend with mine. My days as a lone bibliophile in the family are over!

Dinner was at Peking Chinese Restaurant. We had the place to ourselves until the pre-prom group dropped by. The food was excellent for the price. I had a curry dish--a first for me, because I was unfamiliar with curry in Chinese food. Quite good. Afterward, we shared an order of fried doughnuts. (I wasn't aware they were authentic Chinese fare, but a Google revealed that fried pastries have been a part of Chinese cuisine since the Neolithic age.)