Waterstone's is very clever: it keeps books for children at the back of the store so you have to walk through and past all the displays. I tried very hard to give myself tunnel vision but it failed when I spotted, out of the corner of my eye, the new Penguin Archive series.
I enjoyed Lupin when it was on television but hadn't really realised there was a book about the original Lupin - the one the television Lupin refers to. I think. Or am I getting confused?
Then when I got to the counter with my two children's books and my Lupin, the bookseller pointed out that one of the books had a Buy One, Get One Half-price sticker - so I had to buy another one for me.
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Have Toby for the day so we went for a lovely walk in the woods. Today Nature is wearing white.
Kind of like buying milk you have to go to the back of the store.
ReplyDeleteI love all the white flowers.
Cathy
Clever marketing, like supermarkets where you pass a lot of nice stuff on the way to bread. Then at the checkout the clerk points out there's a bogo...
ReplyDeleteIt's rarely money wasted on a book whose author you know and like.
ReplyDeleteI saw some of that tv series, or I presume it is the same one.
ReplyDeleteI'm a sucker for buy one get one free.
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