It was thriftbooks.
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I grocery shopped on a broken foot with no cast. Everything is bad.
Yes, I could have done click n collect, but then how would I pretend that the creme eggs were an impulse purchase?
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My bike route with nice separate lanes along the waterfront is going to be closed this summer for bridge work and I’m going to be routed back to a street with very unpredictable people who run out into the road without looking, potholes and taxis. Also a hill on the way home.
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I heard that the show was really good but I found Anne more annoying than delightful, so I stopped watching it.
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This is how I felt about the books. Please don’t hate me.
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I don’t actually remember the Anne books that much. But I really loved Emily of New Moon.
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The primary income system I check (owned by 3rd party Big Bad Company Who Doesn’t Pay Taxes and Leaks People’s Information) is slow as all get out today.
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I love a lot of L M Montgomery books, but not the Anne ones, particularly. She is verbose and would annoy the crap out of me irl. Kind of like how she annoyed the other characters in the books.
#TeamMarilla
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I am the kind of child who would have been #teammarilla even when reading these as a kid. (I did not, I’ve never read the books or anything by this author).
The plot thickens. Apparently these books were purchased by another person for me. Thriftbooks cannot release any information about the buyer. I have a sinking suspicion they came from my MIL and am almost shaking in (hopefully unfounded) anger. 4 of the books were learn to read types. I do not have children. I am, however, an immigrant.
I’m really hoping I’m wrong here.
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WOW THERE’S JUST SO MUCH THERE.
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Either way it’s mega awful!!! 
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WHAT? I hope that the asshole is not your MIL and is found guilty of traffic offenses and put in jail
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I’m currently exploring other possibilities, checking in a few FB groups that I’m in that sometimes do exchanges to see if I signed up for one and forgot or had an extremely late shipment. To sweeten the whole experience, I can’t have kids so the kid book thing is a double hitter in terms of emotional damage.
I’m trying to figure out how to ask if the books came from MIL without yelling or crying.
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Can you delegate that question to Husband?
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When I raised the possibility with him, he said that there was no way his mom had sent those because of how absolutely insulting the learn to read books are.
I messaged my SIL to see if maybe she had sent them since she occasionally sends me books she gets as a perk of her job. Maybe she would mention it to her mom or MIL mentioned to her that she was going to send books?
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JFC - sounds like a job for SuperSpouse!!! (it is their mother after all).
ETA: Can you just pack the books back up - write in bold “RETURN TO SENDER” and get rid of them? Otherwise, take them to a library and donate them.
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We’re having a Buy Nothing meetup next week and I’ll take them there.
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Yay!
During my “play intensely with the cat” time (yes I have this on a to do list every eve so that she will actually sleep through the night, ha), my cat sliced my toe open trying to get her toy. Yow!
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Oh no! Does she let you trim her nails?
You just reminded me that Boy Cat needed to have his back claws clipped. Afterward I gave him a snack. I can’t believe how quickly Girl Cat ran from the other room upon hearing a subtle snack sound!
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