This morning I awakened my daughters with, "Girls, girls, it's the library book sale! Get up!" It felt like Christmas! Off we went to find a line at the front door. Ha! Let the people wait there! We will go to the children's door and get first dibs on the kids' books! Ha ha! I spent $7.50. This was my haul:
Little Arliss by Fred Gipson (sequel to the beautifully written Old Yeller)
Little Golden Picture Dictionary (a Golden Book)
We Help Daddy (one of my favorite Golden Books)
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
The Looking Glass Book of Verse compiled by Jane Adam Smith (1959)
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (it will be a back-up/loaner copy)
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (an advanced reader's copy)
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Best American Non-Required Reading edited by Dave Eggers (2007)
Sparknotes 101: Shakespeare
Writers INC (a Student text for English)
And my favorite thing that I saw on the way out and grabbed up for a mere fifty cents: Rand McNally's Color Illustrated Guide to Sailing Ships. It is a 7 1/2" by 5" handbook from 1977 with color illustrations of dozens of big ol' sailing ships, including the great Spanish galleons, my favorites.
What books have you bought in the last month?
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Hahaha, Christine, you and your ships. I'll have to try to get over to the sale this weekend.
Not even sure I remember the last book I bought. That saddens me. Been using the library--that's good, at least.
Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made.
Got it on Half.com for just a couple of bucks.
See, Christine?
I post and... nothing.
"Nothing?" I'm "nothing?" Or do I not count because I posted before you did?
Wow. Danika, chill.
Yes, the claim I made was my posting brings all subsequent posts to a halt. There can be posts ahead of mine.
And yes, you are certainly "something" alright.
I'll quickly slip on again so that others may post (breaking the link between you and subsequent postings, Don--I'm starting to believe the curse).
I went back to the book sale again today. Picked up 2 art history books, 2 Golden Guides (birds and Rocky Mountains), a copy of Vanity Fair by WMT, a pretty little book of Rembrandt's paintings, and a few children's novels. The little Golden Guide of birds is so small and worn and dear!
Golden guide to Birds FTW!
Oh crap, i posted again.
I just bought The Time Traveler's Wife from B&N since I couldn't get it from the library in timely fashion (a friend of mine wants to discuss it this Saturday so I guess I'd better get crackin'), and B&N didn't have a hardcover copy for me to borrow. Yes, I'm that cheap; that's usually the only time I'll actually buy a book (unless it's a gift for someone).
~Lisa
The ship book - what can be said about the awesomeness of it? And the bird book...*sigh*
Don - I was just watching a documentary about Apple Computers - it's a play on demand on Netflix. Was it a good read?
Soph-
The book is kind of a narrative of little stories about creating the mac from the viewpoint of author Andy Herztfeld. It's very "inside baseball". I will check out the Apple doc, thanks for the heads up. Also, thanks for posting after me. I was kinda gettin' a complex.
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