the goodwill bookclub....

ok, so.... i spent much of the day with my sons and potential d-i-l......at area goodwills.....under the pretense of delivering a load of discarded clothing.....but this illusion is always a thinly veiled desire to take a look at what has arrived since our last visit......and today books were the find.....2 novels by iris murdoch, 2 obscure volumes by john le carre (both smiley sags-if you are a le carre fan you know the smiley i am referring to.....)....a collection of essays by adam gopnik about his 5 year residence in paris with his wife and young son.....and 2 volumes that are part of murder mystery series that i may have read before...but for 75 cents i'll take that chance.......i started in on the paris essays......which seemed infinitely more engrossing than my eku chapters on self-care in the age of health care systems......and preventing unintended injuries.......we didn't drop off as many items as we bought...so we ended the day in the hole.......ideally the day would have been a wash........i was amused by the reaction of andrew's significant other at my offer for her to go through the bag of cayle's clothing ebfore we actually walked it up to the drop-off......several items that my child had rejected were snapped up with the disbelief that nobody in our family wanted them.....go figure.....bless michelle's heart..........but i digress from books......i should be reading in cold blood.....but i will be working the night that book club moved to after we set the schedule.......and therefore i haven't opened the book i took the time to order online.....i know it to be classic.....but i have yet to read even the dedications........preferring mr gopkin's description of finding a rental apartment in the city of lights.....about the same time a high-ranking cabinet minister had been exposed at renting a city-owned property for well-below market rate........the notion that $3000/month was below market was also amusing.......one wonders just how fancy the place actually was to consider $3000 too little.........it was on rue jacob...in the 6th...behind the eglise st germaine.....but still $3000/month is a heck of a lot of money.....especially considering that this book is dated......and the scandal in question happened in 1995.......i could probably manage to read a bit nmore before turning in for the night......of paris rather than health care........the only rational choice..........