It only makes sense that a guy who cooks on cast iron, spends time in the outdoors and enjoys cooking clean, simple food would also be into vintage books, right?
I decided that I want to read more in 2023.
I want do do a lot of things in 2023, but reading is something that is pretty achievable.
Book. Quiet. Go.
That said, books are getting expensive. (Grumpy old man alert!) For example, I bought myself a few of the Witcher novels for a Black Friday sale and even discounted they still cost me something like $18 each for paperbacks. And while I love the library, I’ve always been something of a slow, scattershot-type reader and tend to need to renew every book two or three times, or I end up returning it and never finishing it. I also got into e-books for a while but have resorted back to the tactile paper novel for things that are not work-related.
So, spend a lot of money on books? Read less? Ugh! What’s a guy to do?
One solution: I was at the local used bookshop on my lunch break the other day. I was hunting for something very specific, but then on a whim started picking out other books that caught my eye…. books that fit a particular set of characteristics:
- They were all science fiction
- Based on copyright dates, every one of them were written and published before was old enough to really get into reading proper novels, so say mid-80s and prior vintage stuff,
- Each of them plot summarized some absolute cheese, camp, cornball, classic sci fi (which is kinda my vibe recently)
- None were going to cost me more than $3 per book… used of course
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In other words, I had the makings of a 2023 project in my hands, right there at the cash register.
The Three Dollar Book Club was born.
How many of these old campy books from the last century could I read through this year?
Would people be interested in semi-serious reviews of corny old books?
When could I start reading?
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What I’m trying to say is that if you’re the kind of person who cooks on cast iron, spends time in the outdoors and enjoys cooking clean, simple food … are you also, maybe into vintage books? Or at least, into reading about a guy who finds himself with a small stack of three dollar used novels from the seventies and eighties?
If so, you might be in the right place. Stay tuned.