Going Vintage by Leavitt Lindsey

Author:Leavitt, Lindsey [Leavitt, Lindsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781599909844
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Jeremy doesn’t try to talk to me for the rest of the week. I’m almost happy that I have no default person to hang out with that weekend, that I can do anything I want with whomever I want. I can do something dangerous.

Or I can take a sewing class at the community center.

Ginnie agrees to take the seven o’clock class with me. She’ll go to a party or something afterward, while I shall “research” early sixties cereals like Cap’n Crunch. And by research, I mean eat. Alone, in my bed, without even a good rom com to keep me company.

Ginnie has afternoon practice, so I go an hour early to the library by the community center. The library, with the books and articles and Dewey decimals, is admirably vintage. I want to check out some books for my history paper, but they’re harder to find that I thought. The City of Orange’s library card catalog has, naturally, gone online. When I ask a librarian for help, she points to the computer. Telling her I can’t use it makes me feel like a little kid whispering that I have to go to the bathroom. But I finally end up with a stack of books, half about the Industrial Revolution, the other half a mix of novels, etiquette books, another cookbook—anything that can achieve time travel with a flip of the pages.

I write two pages of notes about the Industrial Revolution. The virtual project took less time. The historical information is all on one site—each time the user adds an element, a lesson is attached. So if I have a dress factory, and click on a seamstress, five pages of facts appear. With books, I have to read a lot to get to the words I want. Then I need to quote those words, combine the quotes, and add my own arguments and thoughts to that.

This crusade would have been a lot easier in the summer, when school projects weren’t involved. Too bad I didn’t see into Jeremy’s cheating soul three months earlier. I would have saved money on his birthday present too.

“Being at the library on a Friday night is geeky enough, but you’re reading books about the Industrial Revolution on top of it?” Ginnie slides into the chair next to me.

“Homework.” I check my watch, which I’ve taken to wearing again now that I don’t have a cell phone. “Our sewing class starts in ten minutes.”

“Homework and sewing on a Friday night? What a social calendar.”

I stack up three books, hoping I can find more information later. I’m starting to form a thesis, but in no way do I know enough to write five pages. “You’re also at the library on a Friday night. What does that say about you?”

“That I’m a nice sister.” Ginnie picks up The Busy Girl’s Guide to Etiquette, published in 1959, and starts thumbing through. She stops at a passage and snorts. “‘Wake up two hours before your husband so you can have time to bathe, do your hair, powder you nose, and make a healthy breakfast.

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