I’ve been really good so far in 2008. I haven’t bought any new books, and I’ve been working on my TBR pile. I have over 50 books in my “to be read” pile. I have only gotten 3 books, a trilogy by Tracie Peterson, from the library, way back around New Years. Everything else I’ve read has been from my own bookcases, so I’ve been working on whittling down my huge pile of books. Plus, I have not bought a book for myself this calendar year. I felt like I deserved a reward!
So, this past week, I made up for it! 🙂 My sister Gail came for several days to visit, and we went shopping. Had a blast, as always, and Gail was sweet enough to indulge me and go browse to my heart’s content at Lifeway Christian bookstore. We spent a while checking out the “bargain book” shelves, and I scored the second and third books in the Mindy Starns Clark “Smart Chicks” mystery series. I haven’t read any of her books, but have been wanting to. So when I found each book for under 5.00 each, I snatched them up. Now, I have to order the first one from Amazon, and then I can get started.
We stayed up really late Friday night playing Text Twist (technically, it was Saturday morning, and if you knew me in real life, you’d know that was a feat in and of itself), so I really wanted to sleep late Saturday morning. But no, my local library was having its thrice yearly “Friends of the Library” sale. Believe me, that’s about the only thing that would get me out of bed early. 🙂 The bottom 4 books in the stack were all I found at that sale. I saw a lot of books that I wanted to read, but opted to wait and check them out of the library rather than purchasing them and adding even more books to my TBR pile. 🙂 In case you can’t see them in the photo, they are “Maggie Sweet” by Judith Minthorn Stacy, “Sea Glass” by Anita Shreve, “Booked to Die” by John Dunning and “Twelve Ordinary Men” by John MacArthur. Yeah, more books!
Nothing quite like a new pile of books, huh? Ah….
Oooh, nice!
Do you like Anita Shreve? I just read one of hers and liked it (Body Surfing), but I didn’t like A Wedding in December. I have a hard time with her writing style.
Enjoy your books!!
I would love to hear about the Anita Shreve book. I am hoping to go to a used book sale on Friday. All the books are 25 or 50 cents!
One day I’ll get to go to a book sale at a library somewhere!
Gotta love new books!
I am also working on my tbr pile from home but got sidetracked when I returned the kids’ library books. Sigh.
I’ve heard that Twelve Ordinary Men is a great book. You’ll have to let us know what you thought after you read it.
Wow, i am proud of you for not buying books. I try but fail miserably. I have been borrowing faithfully from the library however, so at least I’ve reduced my spending. Only I just discovered I can download albums from Amazon in MP3 format for less than CDs cost so I bought 3 in the past week~! Yikes.
That looks like a great pile of books. Love library sales. The John Dunning one looks interesting.
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