Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Library bookstore!

Did you know that the Savannah, GA, public library has a bookstore inside? I found it online and yes indeed it exists. Paperbacks 50 cents, hardbacks $1. I bought my daughter two books - a board book about babies and mommies from the sea, and A Wish for Wings that Work by Berke Breathed. Then I got one book for me - From Here, You Can't See Paris by Michael S. Sanders, which combines my two favorite things - travel writing and food writing. Paid $2 (the woman gave us the board book for 50 cents). Yay books!

...pictures may show up sometime...

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Book fast? Did I say that?

There were THREE neighborhood yard sales today...three! I was weak!

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Free!

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10 cents each. The book on the right is so amazing...

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50 cents each.

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50 cents each except the Sneaky Chef book, which was $1.50 and includes a media letter/press release.

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Spiderwick - 50 cents. Amazing cookbook featuring the entrants in the 1966 Mrs. Georgia pageant, 25 cents.

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10 cents total. (The owners had abandoned their yard sale, I left the money because I felt I should leave something and that's what I had in my pocket...)

Yeah. Good times.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

This doesn't count either...

Still on my book fast, but I bought my friend Terra Elan McVoy's new novel (her first!) called Pure. :) Bought it from my favorite local independent bookseller (but got it at a discount since I used to work at said bookstore). Woohoo!

Friday, April 10, 2009

One (free) book from Amazon

This almost shouldn't count against my book fast - I think I even bought this before I declared the book fast, and it was free with Amazon credit won from Swagbucks. Plus it was an addition to an order of a book that was a gift - I needed to reach the $25 free shipping threshold...

Anyway, I bought Vegetarian Sandwiches by Paulette Mitchell. It's a Chronicle cookbook - my weakness! - and the recipes look easy enough. Of course it's a big tease as it arrived at the beginning of Passover...I'll have to put it aside until next week unless I want to further my bread cravings.

I'll post a picture of it later, if I have time. But it's a gorgeous book, trust me.

Friday, April 3, 2009

OMG Book Sale


Bookcloseouts.com
has thousands of fiction titles on sale for $1.99 each. That's less than hardcover books at Goodwill.

*twitch* I put myself on a book-buying fast for at least a month but...I'm not sure if I can hold out.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

4/2/09 - Thrift Stores

I hit two Goodwills and one Value Village today.

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I kept saying "I think I already have this cookbook." Oops, I did. Well, it will be a present for someone. Both from Value Village - SNL book $2.02, cookbook $1.50.

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$1.50 each from Goodwill. More Dr. Sears - hooray!

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More Corduroy! 75 cents.

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$1.50 each but somehow I wound up with one for free because the cashier did...something.

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$1.25 and my favorite find of the day - I love this book and own other books of hers and probably would've paid full price for this at some point otherwise.