Books, Cheese and …. Squid?

Just the smell of books makes me happy… wandering through a used book store makes me ecstatic.  There is just something about all of those books, even the ones I would never read, that make me feel content.   I love wandering through book stores like Barnes and Noble too, don’t get me wrong, but I know that when a used book store opens that the owner loves books as much as I do.  One of our favorite things to do on a Saturday is try to visit as many used book stores as we can.  I don’t always find something, but when I do it’s usually a treasure.   And when I’m done looking I can easily find a chair and read whatever I’ve already picked out while I wait for S to finish his treasure hunt.

Today was a trip to Half Price Books where I found the journals of Anais Nin. There are three different books that span 1931-1949, and chronicle her life and her affair with author Henry Miller.  The other thing I am crazy for is journals themselves.  I mean blank journals that I can write in myself.  Might be why I’m fascinated with Nin’s journals.  I found several today to add to my collection.

After the book store was a trip to Whole Foods.  I am lulled into thinking that because I am at Whole Foods that I’m buying and eating healthy, but in reality they have just as much junk and sugary stuff as a regular grocery store. So I have to pay attention, but I still feel like I’m being good when I go there.  This trip we purchased Drunken Goat Cheese, Goat Gouda, Australian Cheddar, crusty whole wheat bread and a container full of assorted olives from the olive bar. Sounds like a good dinner to me and much better than the raw squid S wanted to put in the cart (ewww).

I can tell we’re getting old when a trip to the book store and the grocery store is a mini adventure for us.