booktastic

Very odd: this morning when I got on the bus, the girl sitting in front of me whipped a book out of her bag in a surreptitious manner and started to read it. She even glanced over her shoulder as if she didn’t want people looking at her book.

However, totally not meaning to, I caught sight of the cover of her book as she opened it. It was called “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey” and had a rather interesting cover. It was intriguing enough that I very nearly asked the girl about the book… but, well, the look she had given me indicated she didn’t want to be bothered about her book, and I’m not really all that together first thing in the morning, so before about five minutes had passed I had forgotten about it entirely.

Imagine my surprise when I got home and was looking for something totally unrelated (a particular 50’s rock compendium CD) on Amazon.com, and found, among my recommendations, The Mysterious Benedict Society . I’ve never even heard about this book before, and yet had it mysteriously brought to my attention twice today.

… Okay, that’s not exactly a harmonic convergence, but I thought it was interesting. I think I should check this book out.

In other news, I was at Borders today doing a rather weak attempt at Christmas shopping, and saw a book that looked quite interesting: My Lobotomy, a guy writing about the odd circumstance behind his being given a lobotomy at age 12, and how his life has turned out. (I didn’t buy it because it was new, and anyway, I wasn’t really supposed to be buying books for myself.) Incidentally, Bookmooch doesn’t have either of these books right now, which is hardly surprising: the number of books on Bookmooch drops drastically after “Christmas shopping” time comes around. Things should pick up again in January after everybody tries to unload unwanted presents.

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