A Random Thingy!

[mandie_rw]

I went to Princeton this afternoon with my friends, totally on a whim. (Somebody mentioned Princeton at lunch, and we just decided to go...it's only a fifteen minute drive, so we've been known to do this before.) Wandered around Nassau Street for a while (and went in a Real record store, which you don't see too many of any more...I must go back with money and buy me some Beatles LPs!) , and went in a tiny bookstore we've never been in before. Of course I gravitated to the history section, and perused the books.

I was eyeballing a (used) book on Eleanor of Aquitaine that was five dollars, because five dollars (in dollar coins! thanks very much to a recent use of the subway in Philly...I hate dollar coins!) was literally all I had, plus random bits of change. Then I spotted an Old-Looking Book on another shelf, and I think Old Books are Wicked Cool (have some classics of my grandma's from the forties), so I picked it up. Oh, cool, a book called British History. I love British history. Open it up to see how old it is. Says Published in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-six. Oh. Cool! Turn it over to see the price. Three dollars? Okay then!

So now I have a lovely old book from 1876, in fairly good condition (some kid drew in the flyleaf, but that's about it), for three dollars. I'll actually read it too, since it's on Mah Favorite History Topic Evah. I love Princeton!

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[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I'll manage to remember to take a picture or two of it, if you'd like to see it! Won't be for a couple weeks- til I go home at the end of the semester, as the camera's home and I'm here. I will take them, though! :D