I am currently at Monkey's lovely apartment about 2 hours away from my lovely home. Yesterday Monkey and I hung out at the mall which had an amazing Coles, all big and shiny and well placed books. I wasn't going to buy anything, I had gone in because I knew I had to renew my discount card this month and I even brought my renewal coupon all the way from Montreal. Of course I had left it in my suitcase. Argh! No matter, because the store's database was down and I wouldn't have been able to renew the card anyhow. Though, thanks to Monkey, I was checking out the bargain tables, and to be honest, I never think to do that. Too much past trauma of always having to stack and re-stack those bloody pyramid tables when I worked for the company. I LOATHED bargain books. They were the bain of my existence, and yet 80% of our companies profits. Heh.Not once did I think to check those stupid pyramids for remainder YA books! Not once! Am I a moron? Apparently.Monkey found me The Queen of Cool by Cecil Castellucci and I was VERY happy to find A Mango Shaped Place by Wendy Mass on the "grown up" book pyramid. I have been lusting after this book since I read about it on a book blog this summer, though for the life me me I can't remember which one. I know it wasn't Monkey's blog, even though she apparently posted about it in March 2007. (Oops). All I know if when I read the review this summer I thought "hey, that is what I have!" Because it is a story about a girl who has a condition called synesthesia, which means that the visual cortex in her brain is activated when she hears something. I used to only be able to describe how I was feeling in colours and music (which I couldn't actually vocalize, but I would hear in my head.) I always thought I was just strange, which I already was, until one day in my early 20s I was told I had a form of synesthesia. Made things seem a little more colourful. ;)So these are two more books that I will be reading sometime soon. I still have Nightwalker, by Jocelyn Drake, Moon Called by Patricia Briggs and An Abundance of Katherines by John Green on my TBR pile.