Gold Star Find!

So it turns out that even in Lower Manhattan, which would truly be a retail wasteland were it not for Century 21, there are some pretty exciting bargains to be found on one’s lunch break. I took a slightly different route to the deli today, in order to avoid a mostly sweet but somewhat lecherous coffee cart clerk, and I stumbled upon the most wonderful book sale! The proprietress of a local pack-n-ship store had for whatever reason decided to buy out the inventory of some defunct second-hand bookstore and to supplement her own business by reselling these books. Um, jackpot, as far as I’m concerned. I ended up purchasing four books for seven dollars: The Stranger, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and the seller threw in Dolly, a 1979 biography of Dolly Parton (with 16 pages of photos!) for free! I managed, but just barely, to get out without The Feminine Mystique and The Evil Twin (a Sweet Valley High super-thriller, obvi).