[NON BLOG] Recent Purchases

• At the Glad Day Bookshop on Monday, Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction.
  
• At Vortex Records on Tuesday, informed and inspired by talktooloose, I picked up three used CDs: Carole Pope's 1996 CD Radiate; Cyndi Lauper's 1996 Sisters of Avalon; and, the Pet Shop Boys' 1995 2-disc Alternative.


• At the Radio Shack in the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, a cheap pair of earphones, complete with three-year warranty allowing up to seven replacements over this period.


• At the Toronto Public Reference Library this evening, at a biannual sale, I picked up David Crystal's The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, the fifth and sixth volumes of Anais Nin's diaries in hardcover, and a copy of At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill autographed by the author himself.

Deduce what patterns you can from this. The person who comes up with the most creative answer gets a drink on me when next we meet in person.