I'd expected myself to keep better track of books I'm reading since I started at the bookstore, but I see I've fallen way behind.
Ha! I automatically wrote bookstore, above.
The thrift BOOK's area really is a bookstore, even if I can't choose our inventory––except by choosing NOT to put out certain donated books. I mean mostly things like 1980s paperback novels:
I don't censor books for sociopolitical content.
1. I also don't put out books with sexually explicit pictures (though I have put out a couple illustrated Kama Sutras--they fly under the radar).
I listed Xaviera Hollander's Supersex (1976) on ebay, where it has not sold. I blocked the naughty bits...
The art is sooooo seventies--someone should buy it just for that!
If you were alive in the '70s, you might remember this author from her more famous Happy Hooker.
2. We got a cool batch of poetry books donated last week. I priced them high (high, for the store = $10 - $20), and none have sold so far, so I'm trying a couple on ebay.
Below is the coolest one, in my eyes, because of the book design by Robert Indiana. A Day Book, by Robert Creeley (1st pbk ed. 1972).
(I checked and, too bad, June 11 is on a Tuesday this year.)
3. Something else I didn't put out---a board game called
"The Richest Christian" from 1986--during a new flowering of Prosperity
Christianity [founded by three televangelists, per the Washington Post article, "The Worse Ideas of the Decade: The Prosperity Gospel"]:
If you are good, God will reward you materially.
I didn't censor it-–I bought it,
just so I could cut out this square, below, and put it on my wall.
First, I showed it to Big Boss and said I wonder when my $300 will manifest.
He, no fan of the prosperity gospel, laughed and said, "Payday's next week--your check will probably be about that..."
Ha! I automatically wrote bookstore, above.
The thrift BOOK's area really is a bookstore, even if I can't choose our inventory––except by choosing NOT to put out certain donated books. I mean mostly things like 1980s paperback novels:
I don't censor books for sociopolitical content.
1. I also don't put out books with sexually explicit pictures (though I have put out a couple illustrated Kama Sutras--they fly under the radar).
I listed Xaviera Hollander's Supersex (1976) on ebay, where it has not sold. I blocked the naughty bits...
If you were alive in the '70s, you might remember this author from her more famous Happy Hooker.
2. We got a cool batch of poetry books donated last week. I priced them high (high, for the store = $10 - $20), and none have sold so far, so I'm trying a couple on ebay.
Below is the coolest one, in my eyes, because of the book design by Robert Indiana. A Day Book, by Robert Creeley (1st pbk ed. 1972).
If you are good, God will reward you materially.
I didn't censor it-–I bought it,
just so I could cut out this square, below, and put it on my wall.
First, I showed it to Big Boss and said I wonder when my $300 will manifest.
He, no fan of the prosperity gospel, laughed and said, "Payday's next week--your check will probably be about that..."
