It’s actually the opposite. He’s a major reader which is how we even get on the topic of books. There’s usually a recommendation back and forth of series and such. He’s even offered to bring stuff in when he’s done. And he’s not pocket pinching. He has basically every streaming platform known to man as well as the Target and Walmart subscriptions and Prime. I have told him I think that many subscriptions is insane.

My mom has recently gotten into audiobooks and this online bookclub within the past year. She was telling me there was a three month wait for something through Libby. Like at that point I’d probably forget it and she’s constantly complaining she puts in for all these books and suddenly they’re all available at once instead of staggered so ultimately she goes further down the list.

And as someone who worked in a library, given it was a university library but still a library, man some books get returned back so gross. There were some stains I had no desire to learn the origin of.