Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
3/27: book browsing
In this age of internet shopping I order most of my books online. It's convenient, but it means there are fewer happy, random discoveries; when I go online, I already know what I want. Today I went to a used bookstore in town before I had lunch, and it was fun to spend a little time just poking through the shelves. I got an anthology of 19th century women's utopian fiction, two poetry anthologies (since I'm gearing up for National Poetry Month in April), and a Thomas Hardy novel which I had never heard of but which seems based on the Pygmalion myth from Ovid. Great stuff!
I buy books online too and it makes me feel guilty as heck because I value the independents and that's not the way to support them. Fortunately even Amazon has links to used book stores and that's what I mostly buy, good condition used books. But what I really want is a Kindle and that's the least pc of all. It is so difficult to be a good citizen! - Barbara
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