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.











Book fast!!!!!!

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).
















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.

Just one...

I feel like I've forgotten to mention something...we did get an autographed copy of Skippyjon Jones last week. Maybe that.

Today - a mad dash through the thrift store, just to get it out of my system. I scored Dishwasher by Dishwasher Pete - a zine book! Yes! And I started reading it in the car and couldn't put it down. I've been reading travelogues that aren't that great so...this was fun.

Library book sale!

First, I got The May Queen from Paperback Swap - hooray! Looking forward to reading this collection of essays about being in your 30s.

Yesterday kicked off the Decatur Book Festival. And the first thing I did was go to the library booksale when it opened - it was ridiculously crowded with festival goes and people with little scanners on their phones/PDAs (to find out which books are "valuable" - seems pretty tedious to me). However, I'm pretty happy with my scores. Blue dots were a dollar, red were 50 cents, green were $2:



Present for a friend



Alas, I already had the 2006 Best American Nonrequired Reading. I'll probably give this to another friend.