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Flea by Sheila Zubrod & David Stern (Outdated, but has fun advice about what to look for at flea markets and thrift stores)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.

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...

Book fast? Did I say that?

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


Free!


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


50 cents each.


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


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


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.

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!

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.

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.

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.