Two more books from Random House. They have the "Reader's Circle" seal on the outside, which means "there's a great book club read on the inside." The first is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, a novel about a teenager from South Bend, Indiana who is sent to a prestigious prep school in Boston. Amazon has a new feature that gives you "Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs)." The SIPs for Prep are "dorm head, surprise holiday, senior prefects, chapel talk, bank boys, and table wipes."
The second book is A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. This seems to be a historical intrigue/adventure novel set during World War II. There are no SIPs for this book, but there is a "text stats" page that informs us that, among other things, this book contains 14,042 Words per Dollar. I like how Amazon has gone completely insane.
Two paperback books - $20.63
Running total - $7,049.15
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