wish list as memory

We realized last night that we have a fairly large Amazon gift certificate from Christmas that we never used. It's like finding a dollar in your coat pocket but on a bigger scale, so we've been practically giddy with all the possibilities.

Both of us have been going through our wish lists and finding items that make us scratch our heads. "Why did that sound interesting?" Then we look at the other books added the same day, and we realize that was the day we read the NPR list of summer reading picks or the week we were obsessed with some particular topic like Nancy Drew or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Having been through this pruning cycle more times than I can count, I know some of those books will probably make their way back to the lists in the future. Eventually, they'll come back often enough that we'll end up buying them. It's fun to see the ebb and flow of our lives laid out so plainly in the books we find interesting.