three steps backwards

This month's bookclub book is "the painted veil" by w. somerset maugham. I had a gift certificate to barnes and noble, so stopped there on my way home tonight to pick up the book. I found it on a table of bestsellers with a sticker than said "buy 2, get the 3rd free." This is the trap I always fall into. I could have resisted, but since I wasn't technically paying money, I figured I'd see what they had. I left with two others, "veronika decides to die" by paulo coelho, and "plainsong" by kent haruf. They've now joined my list of unreads.