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Trawling Through The Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn

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Happy Thursday, everyone.  I've officially been hired full time at a new job, Chicago is over the hump on a heat wave, so let's look at the stuff I found at the thrift stores this week.  (Including a new Goodwill!) _______________________________   I'm at least two seasons behind on the TV series of Outlander , despite being completely caught up on the books since they started coming out in the mid-90s (hell, googling it, this year is the 30th  anniversary of the first novel and wow, I've been reading these books since I was 18).  But I've really appreciated how solid this series has been, both in the humor and the sexiness, while also not ignoring that they can be quite dark at times.  Which means, sadly, that this is a series that does not ignore sexual violence upon and between genders.  But I think this series is not salacious about that, so far, and doesn't use it as something purely for character motivation.  It doesn't hurt that they h...