In Which Amy Meets Serendipity... (Myspace Blog)

I got volunteered for teenage mall duty. Ok, I actually sort-of volunteered myself, if you want to get technical. And it turns out that it was a great thing on multiple levels. Kamy's boys wanted to hit the mall, mi hija tambien, and no other adult was free to be there while they wandered. Last week, I did the same thing and ended up sitting at Barnes and Noble's with a venti hazelnut soy latte and a copy of Laurel Hamilton's newest book "Danse Macabre". It was heaven, but only 14 chapters of heaven. 14 chapters is never enough when there are so many more than 14 chapters possible... so I jumped at the chance to go today. Picking up the boys from the Unitarian Universalist church was fun! So many people that I haven't seen in so long, being as how I go to church so regularly and all. (*cough-bull-cough*) Talking, catching up, etc. Very important. But the most exciting part happened /before/ I saw anyone I knew. I got there a bit before the service ended, so was in the foyer where they just happened to have a book sale going on. I LOVE book sales! I was excited and had not even started looking at books. Right off, I found 2 - "Ishamel" by Daniel Quinn, which my gut says takes a Christian slant, and "The Most Dangerous Man in America, Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition" by Robert Boston, which my gut says does NOT take a Christian slant. These looked interesting enough to spend, get this..., 50 cents each. But the miracle, the crowning glory of my morning, forces me to refer you back to my blog from 10-8-06 . Read through that list of books carefully... and at the very tippy-top of the list you find... "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins. That's right - I found it for 50 cents! HaHaHa! That means, exactly 2 weeks after my to-read list came out, I have finished 2 of the books on it, and have the next in my hot little hands. Sorry, Brian... "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is going to have to wait a bit longer... because next is "The Selfish Gene". Just in case you are wondering, I still haven't finished "Danse Macabre", but I am on chapter 38! 1 more Sunday afternoon at the mall with a venti hazelnut soy latte oughtta do it.