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!

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.