I think if for some reason that I had to be sequestered away for an unknown period of time on jury duty, I’d want to do it in a Borders book store. Preferably the three storey one in the city but if I can’t go there, the one in Mt Gravatt will do nicely. Sheriffs of local counties please take note for future requests for jury duty. Thank you.
What I love about Borders isn’t so much that they have a Gloria Jeans coffee shop in there (personally I’m partial to Zarraffas but any port in a storm) but that no matter what the subject title, they invariably have a book for it. And not just one book either, generally several – unless it’s a really obscure title like Gourmet Cooking for Dummies. I’m assuming the reason why there is only one copy of that title at Mt Gravatt is because people who wish to be gourmet cooks generally have other ways of going about it – like a cooking class or they have “the way” about them. They don’t really need a book to tell them how to cut an orange in a fancy pattern, they just know. It’s genetic….or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it. 
Speaking about cooking, I don’t know why it was that I ended up in Borders looking in the cook book section. I had a voucher for a full price book 30% off so you would think I would get something somewhat entertaining like a Peter Moore travel lit book or maybe something funny by Jeremy Clarkson. For some reason I glossed past the travel lit section and even the funny section and ended up with cooking. The Mt Gravatt store is only small (in comparison to the city), so there’s only about 12 shelves packed full of books all related to recipes, preparing food or the cooks themselves like Gordon Ramsay. I suspected it would start with “now if you can’t F’ing bother F’ing doing it right, then put the book down and F right off”. So I took the advice I imagined would come from it and didn’t even pick it up.
I did pick up Rachael Guy’s book in the picture below to look at it, only because I thought the title was amusing. Guy Food. It’s a pretty small book and the content fairly light on – is that because she assumes that most guys would not want to be able to cook a terrine of duck or some other poncy recipe involving stuffing a squid head. Which brings me to another point – cook books are exactly like mix CDs. Most of the stuff is on it is ok but there will always be at least 3 songs on the CD which you absolutely can’t stand. Cook books are the same, only most of them have entire sections I would turn my nose up at. Anyway, I could cook anything in there without even needing a recipe for it so I put it back on the shelf and ended up with a book called Easy Comfort Food. One day I may even open it again to cook something from it.
Does that mean they have to cook it too?
Jury duty is the worse. I had to do jury duty over a year ago, for 3 days. So boring, you wait all the time for them to call you. Bring books!! I love Borders. Bookstores are fun to just wander in and take in all the fun books. Rachael Ray is kinda annoying on her shows, but once in awhile she has a good recipe.