Posted by Racer on November 9, 2005, at 13:37:22
My husband wants me to order a book for him from Amazon. Of course, I am happy to do so, since when I order a book for him, the package would be quite unbalanced if I didn't order a couple for me to balance it out...
The problem is that I have a stack of books I haven't read yet, and most everything on my wishlist at Amazon is in one of two catagories: "I'll get it sooner or later..." or "WAAAAYYY too expensive, gotta wait until someone buys it for me for Christmas..." So what does anyone suggest?
I'm kinda thinking that I might do a search and get something by David Sedaris, because I liked "Me Talk Pretty One Day" so much. Or maybe "Lucky" since I liked "The Lovely Bones." Then there's "Plague : The Mysterious Past and Terrifying Future of the World's Most Dangerous Disease," or "City of Plagues," or maybe "The Land of Naked People : Encounters with Stone Age Islanders." Then again, maybe I want some more critter books, like "The EARTH DWELLERS: Adventures in the Land of Ants ," "Thieves, Deceivers, and Killers : Tales of Chemistry in Nature," "Fire Ants," "The Biology of the Honey Bee," "Social Evolution in Ants," or "Ants, Bees, and Wasps: A Record of Observations on the Habits of the Social Hymenoptera."
Or I could be good...
But then again, there are things like "We Need to Talk About Kevin : A Novel," "A Dusk of Demons," "The World in Winter," "Empire of the Ants," "A Wrinkle in the Skin," "The Year of the Comet," "Some Will Not Die," "Never Let Me Go," or maybe "Shadow of the Giant."
Or maybe I should just bite the bullet and get one from the $$$ list? Like "The Last Ape: Pygmy Chimpanzee Behavior and Ecology?"
Anyone got any opinions? Suggestions?
Or should I be good?
(No, it's too hard to be good! I can be good, just not all the time...)
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