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.

Thrift store again!

I feel like it's been awhile since I went thrifting but...I don't think it's really true.

Anyway, we went to Goodwill to drop off many things - I donated about ten books - and I then bought two books for $1.50 each: Anne Lamott's Plan B and Laurie Notaro's Autobiography of a Fat Bride.

Note to self: I now have all of Anne Lamott's books (I think - at least all her nonfiction) and 90% of Laurie Notaro's.

On its way to me from Paperback Swap: The May Queen, a collection of essays about being in your 30s. And did I mention the Photoshop 6 book I got from PBS? I can't remember. I have a bunch of credits there but am - for now - hoarding them until things from my wish list come around.

Thrift store!

I hit one thrift store today but was called away before I had a chance to look at every single book... Still, I got things I'm happy with:



$1.50 each.



75 cents. I already have this (thrifted...), but my daughter ripped a page so I decided to get an extra copy. Again, like with other children's book doubles I have, I also want to use the art for other things.

One book from a thrift store

I went to a very small Salvation Army and bought my daughter Dog Train by Sandra Boynton for $1.

So now I am even MORE mad at myself for not buying the other Boynton CD/book (sans CD) that I saw last week. (Rhinoceros Tap) Because now I have 3 out of the 4 books like this. Hrmph.

More thrifting!

Ah, two thrift store trips in one week. Now I'm good for a few more weeks...

First I hit the same store I was at on Wednesday (where I got the majority of the books in the last post). The store was running a 50% off sale, but nothing was really that exciting.



Cookbook, 50 cents. Stinky Cheese Man, $1. I already have a lovely copy of SCM, but I grabbed this for crafty purposes, including possibly framing some of the pages.

Next Value Village:



$1.50 each.



80 cents for Blue Moo, 40 cents for Personal Penguin. Blue Moo is missing the CD, which made me hesitate, but I can get a copy of the CD elsewhere. And after I bought it I regretted NOT buying another Boynton CD-with-book-minus-the-CD that I saw on Wednesday. Ah well, next time I see it I'll get it.

Finally, Goodwill:



$1.50 for the hardcovers, 75 cents for the paperback (Yay! Dar Williams's book!). I already have Olivia but again, this is for crafts/framing. The author of the small alphabet book was one of my professors in grad school.



$1.50. I don't really need any more cookbooks, ever, but this was cute.

OK, back to book fast! ;)

PS Bookcloseouts.com is having a HUGE sale on children's books. I may have to break my book fast...check it out!

Thrift stores!

Yay! I needed more books. ;)



99 cents.



$1.50 each.

Thrifting

Thrift store #1 (Value Village)...

$1.50 each:



Store #2 (Goodwill), where I apparently decided to buy extra copies of books I already had. *SIGH* I hate when that happens.

$1.50 each and I already have the Travelers Tale book. Boo. I love that series and always just grab any of them that I see...figures I already have this one.



$2.50 each and...I already have Mothers Who Think in paperback. I'm not sure which one I'll keep and which one will become a gift to one of my various mom friends:



I love Spook by Mary Roach - I have also read Stiff (my favorite) and Bonk - and, as you may have learned, I cannot resist food porn in the form of a Chronicle cookbook - check out the inside:



*drool*

$1.25 (half price):



I love Elisha Cooper and either own or have read several of his books both for kids and grownups.

And finally, my friend scored this for me for 50 cents at a different store:



I have been *DYING* to read this (and yes, I love the Poe album too). Yesssss. She also found me two essay collections about Buffy/Angel and a copy of The Reader and a full set of Beatrix Potter books... (no pictures so far, maybe later).

That's all for now! TOTALLY going on a book fast starting today. Totally. ;)

PS The Treasure Map of Boys by e. lockhart is AMAZING. I really need to find time to write a proper review but I read it in a single sitting, staying up late to finish it.

Random thrift store trip

There's a thrift store near where my husband goes ice skating, and he wanted to go skating and I didn't, so he dropped me and my daughter off at the store. (She was less than pleased, but that's not really part of this story.)

I bought things other than books this time (gasp! horror!) but I'll just show you the books. ;)



All of the books were $1.50 except the one on the bottom row, middle, which was half price (75 cents). Turns out that book is not something I'm interested in, as it is essays about motherhood, but is also very religious. I will be giving it away or something. I'm not a huge RR fan but for $1.50 I figured I could check it out. The salsa book is a Chronicle book (yay) and I love salsa. Paul Feig is funny, and the Joyce Maynard book looks really good.

Oh, but I thought I recognized the name Joyce Maynard and couldn't figure out why. I even called a friend of mine and she was like "Yeah, sounds familiar but I don't know who she is offhand."

From Wikipedia, "Daphne Joyce Maynard (born November 5, 1953) is an American author who, in addition to her own literary career, is known for the relationship she had with author J. D. Salinger when she was 18."

OH! Cool.

Yay!

New thrift store, same old tricks.

*crickets* Ah, OK, so nobody's really reading. ;)

So today my husband found me a new thrift store to check out - a St. Vincents.

The good: Big room devoted to books, slightly-less-than-Goodwill prices, nice selection.
The bad: They mark up books on a whim, and they write the price *in Sharpie* on the cover or *in pen* on the inside. This makes me twitch. I know that when I buy used/thrifted books they won't be pristine, but when I want to buy a funny vintage cookbook for the cover and it has a big black $2 written on it, well, it's not as exciting. They also marked up a gorgeous cookbook about cocktails and a lovely Chronicle book with recipes from the CIA (Culinary Institute, not the government agency, though that would be funny). I have far too many cookbooks to pay $3 or $4 for something that just looks pretty, so back on the shelf they went.

Oh but don't think I left empty handed!



Top left - Looking for Mercy Street by Linda Sexton. $2. It was in the dollar section but it apparently didn't have the magic secret dot on it. The sweet little old lady was like "sorry!" and I said "eh, OK, I'll get it anyway."
Top right - Eating My Words by Mimi Sheraton. This was in the $1 section and did have the proper dot. I've wanted to read this for a while. Yay!
Bottom left - Super Baby Food. My kid is a bit older and doesn't need "baby food" but when I flipped through, the book had a bunch of cool recipes. I told you I've started collecting this type of cookbook! $1.50 and written in pen on the inside (for no good reason - all large-ish paperback books are $1.50 unless otherwise marked).
Bottom right - The Unsavvy Traveler. AKA a Seal Press book. Great publisher, so I grabbed it. $1.50.
(My husband also bought two books. Sheesh!)

And this isn't a book but it's too cool to not post:



I had this edition as a kid. I wanted to use it for crafts, my husband wants to play it. As it is sealed, we don't know whether it's a complete game anyway, so that will help determine what it finally becomes. PS SEE THE SHARPIE ON THE BOX? ARGH.

Another day of thrifting...

OK OK OK. I really have to stay away from thrift stores for a few weeks. Also, I think I should skip my local library booksale when it happens if only because I tend to see the books I get there for far cheaper at thrift stores. (We'll see about that though.)

So. Thrift store #1:



Ah. Just one book, $1.50. Great!

Thrift store #2:



OK...6 books at $1.50 each. Hear me out - I've always wanted to read Lamb, and Black, White and Jewish, and Thunderbolt Kid. I love Laurie Notaro so much. And I'm a sucker for travel tales of moving to a foreign country. (I actually skipped buying yet another one...)



Oh this little thing? It's tiny! And it was a yellow tag so it was half price! Only 75 cents! That hardly counts as a book. (I did put back another yellow-tagged book - about the woman who helped save giant pandas. Yeah, I know, I probably wouldn't have ever read it, but it looked so interesting...anyway it went back on the shelf. I get points for that, don't I?) By the way, this book scores big because aside from adorable content, it is a Chronicle book (yay) AND it is by Jennifer Traig, who is the author of two memoirs that I absolutely adored. Fabulous.



Well, yeah, these are hardback books. But I really always wanted to read the Listening book, and I totally am going to make gelato. OK, I'm not, but it's a gorgeous book - next to Chronicle cookbooks, 10 Speed Press cookbooks are my favorite for layout and content. Each of these was $2.50 AKA way more than I'd usually pay. I lost my head, what can I tell you.

ETA: Sadly, two pages of my beautiful gelato book were ripped out - well, that explains why it was at the thrift store. But it's absolutely gorgeous anyway and maybe I really will make some of the recipes someday.

We won't talk about the 3 books I ordered on Amazon earlier in the week...(I have tons of Amazon credit and was ordering the new Tori Amos CD...I'll tell you about it when they arrive.)

Thrift store fun!

I'm visiting a friend of mine in Virginia and she and I headed out to her favorite thrift store...which was closed on Sundays. So instead we went to a different store that had TONS AND TONS of books - most paperbacks were 99 cents and most hardbacks were $1.99.


99 cents each.


99 cents each.


99 cents each.


99 cents, but um, I already have it. Oops. I am going to give my extra to a friend.

In words, I bought:
Thunder and Lightning by Natalie Goldberg
Flux by Peggy Orenstein
Flea by Sheila Zubrod & David Stern (Outdated, but has fun advice about what to look for at flea markets and thrift stores)
A Big Storm Knocked It Over by Laurie Colwin (I love More Home Cooking so I was excited to find this)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (I really wanted to read this!)
A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary (yessss)
The Toddler Owner's Manual

Books I put back - a copy of Weetzie Bat (I really wanted to rescue and give this one away, but...), a copy of Pledged (I've read it and I guess I don't need to own it), an ARC of the reissue of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (I want to read it but I can get it at the library), and a hardback memoir called...A Kind Girl or...something Kind of Girl...yeah, clearly I really wanted that one, right? but if it had been paperback I totally would've gotten it. If you know what I'm talking about, comment - it's a memoir of a girl whose sister either died or was kidnapped/killed I think? She also had an autistic brother and the book jacket said (I remember this part) it was before autism was widely diagnosed. ETA: Found it! It's called "Girls of Tender Age."

Book fast - pshaw.

4/2/09 - Thrift Stores

I hit two Goodwills and one Value Village today.


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.


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


More Corduroy! 75 cents.


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



$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.

Thrift store day

One store was having a fabulous sale - 10/$1 for paperbacks, 5/$1 for hardbacks...


10 cents each!

(And yes, I've read The Lovely Bones. I always see it at thrift stores and yard sales and book sales and have always left it, but for 10 cents, well, I figured, why not.)



The book with the bones on it is called "The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist" and I am really excited to read it. And no, I never watch the TV show Bones despite Angel being on it (Angel...is in the sunlight...and he's not bursting into flames...?) but I may have to now!

Ah and I've read Anansi Boys too but...yeah...NEIL GAIMAN FOR A DIME YES PLEASE.

(Not shown, a book about pets found on Petfinder that was book #10. I got it for the friend I was thrifting with.)



20 cents each. I already have Office Spa but for 20 cents I figured I could cut it up a bit - it has really cute illustrations.

(Not shown, the two books my friend got - a book about the Dalai Lama and...something else...)



The Last Unicorn - 75 cents (half price).
Ridiculous baby food cookbook - $1.25 (half price).
Toddler book (Seal Press! One of my favorite funky publishers!) - $1.50.


$1.25.



$1.25 each.



$1.50 each. OMG YES I MIGHT GO TO JAPAN. SOMEDAY. WITH MY DAUGHTER. Or, well, it was just too cool to pass up.

Weird thrifty-magical note: at the next Goodwill we went to, several towns over? Another copy of that kids/Japan book! But the one I bought was in better shape so yay.



The one on the left I got in a little used bookstore about a week before all the other books for $2. The one on the right is from the same trip as everything above and was 75 cents (half price). Wheeeeeeee Dr. Sears. Patron saint of crunchy moms everywhere. I hope I can find the rest of the set someday.

Thrift store - just bought one!

I bought Girl Talk by Julianna Baggott for $1.50 at Goodwill. And that was all I bought - impressive, eh?

Another Thrift Store Day

Best American Travel Writing (edited by Bill Bryson)
Until I Find You by John Irving
Listen Up, edited by Barbara Findlen, newly revised edition (I own the original version too and this one has all sorts of new essays)
She Got Up Off the Couch - Haven Kimmel
Worst Case Scenario Handbook: Dating and Sex
Bushwacked by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

I'm going to throw the Sunnydale Yearbook into this post even though this isn't the day on which I bought it...

Thrift store books

More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin (gift from friend)
The Wine Lover's Cookbook
Red Meat Cures Cancer by Starbuck O'Dwyer
Green Kids, Sage Families
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats

Valentine's Day = Book Buying!

I don't remember prices for all of these:

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - fancy illustrated read-aloud version
In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
Rabbis and Vegetarianism
Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home
Culture Shock: Morocco

Thrift stores in January

I hit two Goodwills and a Value Village yesterday. One of the Goodwills had hardly any books, which was very very sad (but I still got one there). Value Village, on the other hand, made me very happy.



60 cents for Angelina, 80 cents for the kitties! (Value Village)



$1.50 - the pictures inside are gorgeous. (Goodwill)



$1.50 each - seriously, I still haven't gotten over the Goodwills around here doubling their book prices, and it's been over a year since it happened. Sheesh. (They used to be 75 cents each, and it was wonderful.) (Augusten was at Value Village, Susan Jane was hanging out at the no-books-for-you Goodwill)



Oh hey, free bookmark! It's nifty - lets you mark the last sentence you read as well as the page. Thanks Susan Jane!



$1.50 each at Goodwill - the top left is a history of American weddings, the top right is a book about a woman adopting a baby from China, and the bottom book is about Tramps. Kinda.



Both from VV - Dave was $1.50, and Lemony was $1.01 - I thought that was one of the Lemony Snicket books I'm missing, but it was actually one of the ones I already had in paperback. My goal is to have them all in hardback, so that's fine.



$2.50 at Goodwill. I cannot resist a gorgeous cookbook from Chronicle Books. I just can't.

Thrift store

This may be incomplete, but I definitely bought:

Eat Well, Lose Weight while Breastfeeding
Good Nights by Dr. Jay Gordon
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions
Somebody Someday by Robbie Williams

I believe each one was $1.50.