Trying for Cheap

I was trying my best today to spend as little as possible.

I re-read a novel I owned during the last couple of days (The Chosen by Chaim Potok) and decided I would enjoy reading a couple more novels before school started again.

I don't read novels often, but find I care less about owning novels than other books. For those of you who don't know, I don't borrow books well. I feel the need to mark books up and store them on my own shelves, so I own most books I have ever read or might need in the future.

That being said, I don't mark novels much, so I don't mind not owning them.

I decided that I wanted 1 of 3 options in the next book I would read: The Promise by Chaim Potok (sequel to The Chosen), any of the Steven Lawhead books that began a series (he mainly writes in trilogies) or The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

I even set out for the library, finding none of the three there. They had The Chosen, but not its sequel, a Steven Lawhead book that was part two of a trilogy, and no Brothers Karamazov.

So I drove to another library. Again no luck. However, on the way home I spotted a Barnes and Noble, which of course carried all I would desire and purchased both The Promise and The Brothers Karamazov.

I now have 1000 pages I need to read in the next week, and am assured that the 700 super-fine print pages of The Brothers Karamazov will make it the longest novel I have ever read.