BOOK DAY

The fiction half of the books.

Wednesdays are my book days.  The end of the month Wednesdays mean we price with a different color tag.  The old tagged books from three months ago are boxed and go to the library.  Today I box up books.  I’m also bringing in two new boxes of cookbooks.

I love working with books.  I live in a home where books line almost every wall.

“Have you read all these books,” asked a young lady yesterday.  Yes I have.

Another volunteer, Joe, prices books on Tuesdays.  Wednesdays I load up the old metal wagons and shelve them.  The cookbooks are selling…slowly but surely.  Fiction sells best.  The Rancho Bernardo Discovery Shop offers book buyers a comfy overstuffed chair.  When I started, there was nowhere to sit.  Now I have two folding chairs, and usually I find them full of folks browsing.

The non-fiction is another matter.  The biographies and autobiographies always sell.  I have one shelf of tiny books, they too sell.  No matter how dated, most of the travel books sell too.  Most of the non-fiction doesn’t sell.  I always end up with a mountain of self-help volumes heading to the library.  I’m thinking that they can’t sell them any better than I.

All these books are a joy for me….even the self-help.

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• Himself:  Work has been slow, but he’s happily losing weight eating dinner at lunch time.
• Herself:  Cleared my desk of all but three things.  Imagine that.
• Reading:  Box.
• Captain Poolie:  Visited her last night and found her unwakable.  UTI and kidney problems.
• Gratitude’s:  That we could visit Poolie.
• OD Friends:  If I haven’t been by your blog, it’s because I can’t seem to figure out the  new buttons.  I seem to have deleted a few of you when I obviously didn’t want to do that.  Please leave me another note.  I’ll try again.