So!! Many!! BOOKS!!!!

For Christmas I had gotten a gift card for my fav bookstore, and this was my first day off since I started my new job (which I surprisingly am loving?!?!) so I got fucking loaded B) I'm so excited and my friends are all asleep I think so!!! I'm sharing here!!!!!!

I usually go straight to the antique and foreign-language shelves but this time I decided to wander through the entire store, and... I found CDs!!! I got 2 courses for French made in the 90S!! and then I also found a Barbie Rapunzel (yes, THAT Barbie Rapunzel ;v;!!) CD game from 2002 <:,,D I'm stupid though, I thought initially they were just audio courses and the soundtrack of the movie, but they're meant to be used on a computer that can run windows or macintosh. I'm on a glorified chromebook atm :,) I hated and still do to an extent technology for a long time, but hey now it's old enough to feel ~vintage~. but this is all I got atm. But!!! I'm hoping I can maybe figure out how the hell computers work enough to maybe get an oldie running?! >:) one of my personal challenges for the year.

Hopefully that will be made easier by another book I got - a kid's guide to "computer questions" also from the 90s!! It is so wonderfully dumbed down maybe I will understand a quarter what ney means when he asks me :,) (hi if ur reading this stinky!!!)

and then... drumroll... I got...... F I V E books in French!! FOR FREE!!!! Two of them were written by Elie Wiesel, which is awesome because I surprisingly love books from Holocaust survivors. Just scratches that itch deep in my brain. (btw - read Man's Search for Meaning if you haven't already. you're missing out!!) They were also both SIGNED BY ELIE WIESEL!!!!!!! I don't know why the original owner sold them to the store, but ty for your service. Another book was actually not totally in French, but it was a course book. Something about antique schoolbooks for teachers also just. mm. hit the spot. (I lowkey wish I could just be a governess teaching some spoilt brat how to write in cursive and read Latin and French and embroider all day <:o omg. the LIFE) Another book seems to be a bit of a cross between French geography/tourism spots/folklore all wrapped up in one - annotated by some poor soul who clearly had to read it for a strict class haha - and then the last one is a HUGE bibliography of so many books and authors, literary movements, excerpts of the most important works..... I'm gonna cry <:,D

Although - I went in hoping to get German books, but I have a ton written in the Präteritum, which is v difficult for me to follow in a chapter book with so many unknown verbs, and nothing else there was in the Perfekt... so I'm still stuck with stupid news articles for now >:( but also I've got EVEN MORE French books!! Soon I'm going to need an entire shelf dedicated to French.... haha....

I did the math recently (because my og new year's resolution was to finish all my French books before I got more.... welp >.>) and before I would have to read 1 book every 2 weeks to finish off my French ones by the end of 2023. I don't even want to know what that number is for the rest of the books I've gotten.... but hey, most of them are reference books and I refer to them when I need to, that counts as having read them right?! x)

if u read this far ty, enjoy 2 blinkies that I couldn't get to save on my profile because they had an ' in their names and I'm too technologically illiterate to figure out how to work around that <:) I hope you have as wonderful a day as I had friends!!!!!!

edit: nvm. they're dead here too u.u