I had a real Doh! moment tonight. Lisa and I met up at Zen Palate for dinner and then headed over to the Union Square Barnes & Noble store. As I made my way through I discovered they've expanded their foreign language book selection to include books by authors in their native languages, specifically Spanish. The last time through they mainly had translations of American English authors into Spanish. However, tonight I picked up the latest book by Carlos Fuentes (which I think was La Silla Del Aguila but I’ve already forgotten). I walked around the store a bit more and must have stopped in the foreign language dictionary section before going to the computer books section. I then realized I was 15 minutes late to meet Lisa at the checkout (how many readers are surprised at that? Right). I headed downstairs to meet her. Just as I hit the bottom escalator, I took a look at the book to see how much it cost. I was a bit surprised to see that Teach Yourself Ancient Greek was US$16.95. I mean, it was a reasonable price I suppose, but it wasn’t the book I thought I’d been carrying throughout the store.

I returned home with neither the book I wanted nor the book I ended up carting throughout the store. Doh!