Sorting Through the Manure

An elderly lady who grew up in the Soviet Union told her interviewer about how her mother, facing famine, would grab handfuls of manure looking for bits of edible food for her family.  She would wash the manure off of the little bits of food, which were treasures that kept them alive.

This reminds me of Bookbub - the ebook service that sends you daily lists of ebooks available for prices ranging from free to $2.99.  There really are treasures - but there is also a lot of crap to sift through.

Just today, here are the bargains that I was sent:

1. A box set of novels about a young girl who doesn't fit in at school, but discovers that she has "powers" that is a "surprisingly fresh paranormal romance."
2. A novel about teens trapped in a mall in Portland with an active shooter.  Of course the teens are "diverse" and the hero is actually a "heroine" whom everybody looks up to as the "leader."
3. A box set about a male physicist and a female art curator who "race to save humankind."
4. A book about a Nazi.
5. A novel about "what it means to be a young Black man in the United States."
6. A new age book about healing the body and "inner peace" by Tibetan meditation.
7. A girl-power hagiography about Ruth Bader Ginsburg that the reviewer plans to buy for her daughters.
8. A box set of novels about four women who "changed the course of history."
9. A novel about women who join the Air Force WASP program in WW2.

The only two books in this batch that weren't either hackneyed political correctness or Twilight knockoffs were a book about dog training, and a book about modern pop music - neither of which I'm interested in.  

But you never know, as one of the characters in one of our canceled movies says: "Tomorrow is another day."