Booksale Finds
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
Our library system has a biannual booksale, where all the discarded and donated books from the previous six months are sold at marvelously cheap prices. It’s a real zoo (especially on Opening Night, which you have to be a Friend of the Library to get in. We used to do that, but don’t anymore–too much hassle with a Punkin on board). 1200+ square feet of books piled on tables, under tables, in boxes, on top of other books. Definitely a hunt for buried treasure.
What I found today:
- Riverdance on VHS (with Colin Dunne, not the oh-so-arrogant Michael Flatley)
- “Muzzy” (the BBC’s excellent language system for children) French addition
- Some books for the Punkin
- Japanese dictionary
- Spanish dictionary
- The Story Behind the Word (word origins)
- Names & Nicknames of Places & Things
- An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
- The Art of Fiction by John Gardner
- Writing Books for Children by Jane Yolen
- The Craft of Revision
- A Short History of Australia
- Parallel Universes (non-fiction, written by a physicist. Also covers time travel)
- Wild at Heart by John Eldredge (we just did Captivating at our women’s retreat, so I was curious as to what he has to say about the male side of things.)
I don’t think I got any “pleasure” reading books, except Ben and Me by Robert Lawson, a kiddie book, but an old favorite of mine. Oh yeah, and Dave Barry Does Japan 