Armed with my 40% coupon, we headed to Borders with a single-minded mission: to acquire Carl Sagan's latest book The Varieties of Scientific Experience. Unfortunately it was $49.90 and only in hardcover. I personally prefer paperbacks - they're easier to hold and they sit on my bookshelf better.

A couple other books grabbed my attention: the autobiography of Rupert Everett (whom I consider one of the most beautiful men alive), and another book I simply cannot recall (I have the mental image of where I was looking at it in Borders but am unable to remember the name of the book. Chalk it up to another one biting the dust in my holey Mommy brain.

Finally I wandered around to my favourite SF shelf where I thought of my friend Mike Allen and then to the horror section where there it lay, the latest Repairman Jack paperback, Infernal.

Now I've been a fan of Repairman Jack since I read Nightworld and The Tomb, simply two of the best books ever written. In fact, my son Jack is named after him. :)

Hence I grabbed the best of the three copies there, paid for it, and we left, without a trace at all of buyer's remorse.

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