Sunday, August 15, 2010

I've moved

I haven't updated this in forever. I've started a new, more general blog that will include me talking about the books I've bought.

I'm now at A Place to Write Things.

Thanks!

Monday, November 30, 2009

LIbrary book sale

Actually a library book *store*. I went to the Chattanooga, TN, library bookstore and bought a book of food essays by Elizabeth David for $3.25.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

FREE books

Oh my. A local friend and bookstore owner was having a book giveaway/fundraiser to support a good friend.

I got um...a lot of books. OK they weren't really free - I donated money to the cause.

Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (an ARC - I've read this but wanted to own it)
Adverbs by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)
Reading in Bed - edited by Steven Gilbar
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
The Three-Martini Playdate
The Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

And a TON of picture books for my daughter.

Awesome.

Also a friend gave me Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons for my birthday.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Cheap books with free shipping, oh my

I need to make a post about all the awesome books a friend gave me yesterday, but first...

BookCloseouts.com is having an AWESOME sale. First, all cookbooks are on sale for 35% off of their already cheap prices.

Second, they're doing FREE SHIPPING on orders of $35 or more. I can easily hit that - watch for a post in the future with my order, I'm sure.

To get the free shipping, use coupon number: freeshipping and coupon password: bookcloseouts.com - easy peasy!

If you love books like me, you really need to take advantage of this deal.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Church sale

I've been pretty good lately about buying books. I went on vacation and even went to a thrift store and several local indie booksellers and still...nothing.

But yesterday I hit a church sale. I got the following for 50 cents each:

- The Great American Bathroom Book Volume 1 (I have 2 and 3 - they're basically giant Cliffs Notes about great works of literature)
- Clark's Big Book of Bargains (Clark Howard's book)
- American Harvest by Nava Atlas (one of my favorite vegetarian cookbook authors)
- The Klutz Cats Cradle book (without the elastic) (They threw this in for free.)
- A tiny book about otters called Otter On His Own. I love otters. (They threw this in for free too.)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Back to the book sale!

I confess, I couldn't stay away. I went with a friend to the giant booksale on half-price day without my kid so I could really browse.

It was shockingly NOT picked over. Which made it difficult because everything was around $1 or 50 cents and I *had* to put things back because honestly, I have too many books now.

(I have been reading Biblioholism and man, I have it bad.)

Blue dots were 50 cents, green dots were $1.

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Book fast!!!!!!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Giant book sale!

Every year a consortium of libraries have one giant book sale at a local mall. Today I managed to go on day one, early on. That said, I also had my kid with me, so I couldn't have a leisurely browse. I had to scan and grab, scan and grab, and keep moving.

I spent $9 and got 7 books (and oops, one accidentally didn't get tallied).

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I kind of want to try to go back without the kid, although I also know it will be more picked over. Sunday afternoon is half-price time...

I also got another book from paperback swap - Learning to Bow by Bruce Feller, about teaching in Japan (I saw it at a booksale and decided to get it from PBS instead) and another PBS book is on its way - Biblioholism, about being addicted to...books. Seemed appropriate.