lita’s Reviews > Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World > Status Update

We have been perfectly willing (if not completely thrilled) to spend 200 plus on a hotel, 150 on homocidal septuagenarian baby-sitter, and 60 dollars on a lunch we couldn't taste. [...] But 45 dollars for an old book, not even a particularly book, was extravagance. It was wasteful. What would we tell our parents?