I didn't get home from last night until about 11:30, which is why I didn't write. After class, I drove about 25 minutes away to go to Half Priced Books (LOVE!), where I expected to find all of the books I needed for my C.S. Lewis papers. Alas, I was not so lucky.
This store is much smaller than the ones I'm used to, and I circled and circled in vain. I almost made myself dizzy with my head turned to the side while I quickly scanned the shelves in any section I could think of that might possibly be holding what I needed. (I may have also been looking a bit for something fun to read. No luck.)
What shocked me the most was that they didn't have the main thing I was looking for: The Chronicles of Narnia all in one book. You've seen it: giant paperback, Aslan on the front. I swear, it used to be at Costco all the time (not anymore, though. I looked.). I almost asked the people sorting the used books if they had seen a copy anywhere. I just couldn't believe that it wasn't there.
With 15 minutes left until the store closed, I went back to the young adult section to creep over each shelf, bit by bit. It may have been misshelved, you know. As I crept past the shelves, I spied 3 books piled on one another on the floor. The bottom one looked quite large, but, dangit, it had a white cover. But I was desperate, so I moved the other ones out of the way anyway. As I did, the font showed itself, and the letters took the form of the word "Narnia." GET! OUT!
I didn't actually believe it at first, because I had already given up hope, but there it was. The complete Chronicles, but with Jadis (Tilda Swinton) on the cover instead of Aslan. (That's an interesting decision, I must say.) My heart nearly leapt, I tell you, and I cradled the book to my chest as I went towards the registers.
In the end, I paid $9.95+tax, drove an hour out of my way, plus one $4 toll. I could have gotten it at the Borders down the street for $14+tax (with my coupon), but where would the story be in that?
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