I don't usually buy new books unless I've read them first. (Really cheap used books, I'll buy.) Quite a lot of the books I've owned, I first read in a school library.

Your next book, however, I will be buying new, because it fits into the other category in which I'll spend the money for new--"books where I already know and like the author." Though, I'll admit, I don't usually know and like the author personally.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"