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manwithaplan) wrote2013-03-31 11:58 am
manwithaplan) wrote2013-03-31 11:58 am
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sorry, goop.
Books were always there for Steve when he was just a helpless kid in desperate search of an escape, whether it was after they got news his father had been KIA, during the worst of the depression, or when he refused to leave the side of his mother's death bed. Now, Darrow offers all of the escapism a man could want, but he always was a sentimental one. For too long, books and Bucky were his only friends. There was nothing he could do about missing the latter, but far be it from him to abandon the former. Besides, he had time to spare these days.
After milling around the shelves for a few minutes, Steve came across a table display that offered staff recommendations. He amused himself by trying to to match each book to its recommender, starting with the girl with braces behind the cashier who couldn't be more than seventeen, which was pushing it. Hers, he decided, was Unremembered, the thrilling tale of 16-year-old Seraphina, who survives a deadly airplane crash without a scratch. He wondered if the word unremembered would pass the spell check on his city issued cellphone. Next, he picked up It's All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great, which the dust jacket informed him was written by an Academy Award winning actress named Gwyneth Paltrow, who also happened to be a bestselling cookbook author. She was pictured on the cover smiling in front of a crate of cucumbers, and Steve was surprised by the striking resemblance she bore to the woman Tony Stark had appointed CEO of Howard's empire. He'd never been formally introduced but they had exchanged looks across a busy room during one of the many debriefs at S.H.I.E.L.D. that followed the battle in New York, and in that one look she had managed to convey that she shared his own exasperation with the younger Stark. This selection he attributed to a young man who looked as if he spent more time at the gym than he did here at work and whose skin was inexplicably tanned for the weather they had been having. Just now he was chatting up a pair of well-dressed women who seemed even less interested in the merchandise than he. Still, they hung on his every word.
Setting the cookbook down, Steve moved on to The Devil in the White City, and despite his best efforts, he could feel his eyes growing wider with every line that he read from the synopsis.
After milling around the shelves for a few minutes, Steve came across a table display that offered staff recommendations. He amused himself by trying to to match each book to its recommender, starting with the girl with braces behind the cashier who couldn't be more than seventeen, which was pushing it. Hers, he decided, was Unremembered, the thrilling tale of 16-year-old Seraphina, who survives a deadly airplane crash without a scratch. He wondered if the word unremembered would pass the spell check on his city issued cellphone. Next, he picked up It's All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great, which the dust jacket informed him was written by an Academy Award winning actress named Gwyneth Paltrow, who also happened to be a bestselling cookbook author. She was pictured on the cover smiling in front of a crate of cucumbers, and Steve was surprised by the striking resemblance she bore to the woman Tony Stark had appointed CEO of Howard's empire. He'd never been formally introduced but they had exchanged looks across a busy room during one of the many debriefs at S.H.I.E.L.D. that followed the battle in New York, and in that one look she had managed to convey that she shared his own exasperation with the younger Stark. This selection he attributed to a young man who looked as if he spent more time at the gym than he did here at work and whose skin was inexplicably tanned for the weather they had been having. Just now he was chatting up a pair of well-dressed women who seemed even less interested in the merchandise than he. Still, they hung on his every word.
Setting the cookbook down, Steve moved on to The Devil in the White City, and despite his best efforts, he could feel his eyes growing wider with every line that he read from the synopsis.
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