Man, what a great day! Every few months, there’s a “book fair” about 2 hours away from me. I went there a few years ago and got some great rare classics, so I thought I’d give it another try. I am so glad I did!
I bought over $300 worth of books for $80!!! Even if I’d bought those books with my discount at work, they would have cost over $210... subtract the $30 dollars I spent on gas and I STILL saved $100!!! Woohoo!
Here’s what I got:
The Door Within Trilogy by Wayne Thomas Batson (never even heard of it really, but it sounded kind of interesting, was recommended by another author I like, and was a local writer...)
Great Moments in Architecture by David Macaulay
The Elements of Editing
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd (a $45.00 hardback for $1.99!!!!!!!!!!!)
Illustrated Dracula (very cool artwork with this edition)
Gulliver’s Travels
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown by Chris Roberts (fun little book about the true meaning behind nursery rhymes and such)
Autobiography of Santa Claus by Jeff Guinn
Illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (the cutest artwork, great kid’s book)
Boo Who by Rene Gutteridge (the 2nd book in a Christian series - I enjoyed the first one)
T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Illustrated (again, REALLY nice artwork)
The Novelist by Angela Hunt (Christian novel; someone recommended the author to me)
Tolkien: A Biography by Michael White
Illustrated Shane by Jack Schaefer
Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Tale of Flopsy Bunnies
2 comments:
I just love book fairs. I can't seem to get enough books. Reading has been my passion since I was a child. I read all of the Nancy Drew books and Nancy Drew Files books as a child repeatedly. I could read 15 books in three weeks up through highschool and then once I hit college I had to slow down. I try to read the equivalent of one a week now. Though sometimes I fly through three in a week.
I used to read several a week, more if you included the assigned reading for school, but then life got in the way and my reading was drastically reduced.
I've recently decided to tell life to go take a flying leap because I'm going to start reading more again.
Fortunately, thanks to this book fair and the like, I have a large pile of books waiting for me to begin. :)
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