The book club quest continues

So, you all know about my trials and tribulations of having been invited to, and then dismissed from, the Book Club of Ladyparts because I had none. As it turns out I have a couple other friends who were also search for a book club so we formed our own called The Super Awesome Book Club of Awesome. (I came up with the name.) We're like the literary equivalent of Island of Misfit Toys.

SIDENOTE: If you have any recommendations, feel free to hit up the comments. We're open to anything as long as it doesn't involve teenage/vampire/romance triangles, or authors with the first name "Jodi" and last name "Picoult."

Our first book was "Middlesex," which I'd read before and was happy to re-read because it's amazing and you should all read it. The second book, an older title called "The Far Pavilions," is what we've set our sights on next, except that we can't actually set our sights on it because it's not available. Anywhere. It's out of print.

Hence my quest this morning ended with the Helpful Hippie at Barnes & Noble who peered through her stringy gray hair and over her bedazzled reading glasses, informing me I was out of luck if I wanted to buy this book, but was I interested in their ENTIRE TABLE of teenage/vampire/romance triangles?

After audibly sighing and judging her I browsed through the store totally unencumbered by purpose. It was then I came to the following conclusions:

1) If you work there and your "staff pick" is "People Magazine's Book of Crossword Puzzles" you should be fired.

2) Seeing both Joel Osteen's book and Glenn Beck's right next to each other might make you throw up in the back of your mouth a little.

3) The guy who took the DVD out of the Kaplan test-prep book and split just shoplifted. Someone needs to collar him and say, "Dear Rufus, You belong in jail."

4) Somewhere, some group of dedicated consumers are buying lots of puzzles.

5) At this point, I think teenage/vampire/romance triangles might be outselling The Bible.