Books!

Today has been a day for books! I got home and found a book I had requested to review: THE GLASS BOOKS OF THE DREAM EATERS by Gordon Dahlquist. It looks amazing! At work we had some promos come in. I wanted all three! But I was nice and left the other two and took: DAWN OF EMPIRE by Sam Barone. Interesting sounding historical fiction! It releases in September. Then! The girls in the back room were getting rid of some books and asked if I would like any. I didn't want to be greedy, so I only took two: MAD SHIP by Robin Hobb and ROSE DAUGHTER by Robin McKinley. Not bad for not spending any money, huh?

One of my granddaughters has a birthday on the 17th also and I finally got her a card to stick some money in. It's cute. It's got a picture of a cat blowing out the candles on a birthday cake. I'll mail it in the morning. I hope she gets it in time!

Today was one of those weird days at work. I had a guy looking for some software games for an eight year old. We have some software, not a lot, but I showed him what we had and recommended a couple. He wanted one with math in it. Now tell me there's an eight year old out there that'll just sit and do math problems. I showed him three different games that contain math concepts and he didn't want any of them because they were GAMES. (big sigh) Most kids I know learn more easily if the computer program is in the form of a game. But that's just me. What do I know? Course then he asked if I would order him "the program." I asked him what the name of the program was that he wanted. He didn't know. Any idea of what it might be called? Nope. I kinda need the name of a program in order to order it. I don't think he had an idea what he wanted.

I'm so glad to be home. Normally I love my job. I play in the books. I stock them, I alphabetize them, I pick them up, hunt for them, set up the displays, all that fun stuff. But there were just some weird people out there today.