This past Saturday after service we decided to go. It's only the second time I've been. It can be.....dangerous. It's very easy to go nuts. It's mostly older books though (anything 4 years old or newer stays in the bookshop I think). Anyways...it's fun. It's fun to browse, and mostly fun because you NEVER know what you will find.
Here's my haul:
And now for a breakdown. I don't actually think I ever read this one when I was younger. I thought it was such a cute cover (with kind of an angry looking girl though).
Four Pulitzer prize winners that were on my list:
Two more that were on my list, Past Imperfect, and The Good House (and wow, Past Imperfect traveled a long way, check out that sticker!). And the Chris Cleave one was a bonus. He wrote one of my favorite reads last year, Everyone Brave is Forgiven.
And...a guilty pleasure. Book 3 of a YA series. I'm currently reading book 1. I couldn't pass this up for a $1 though.
The book sale is arranged by genre. And the books are spine-up on tables. Loads of tables everywhere. Anyways, I always hit up the fiction table first. Then mystery. Then travel. And it is there that I found this book, that I had never heard of. As soon as I saw the title 'Summer at Little Lava', I KNEW it had to be about Iceland. And sure enough, it was. It's a memoir (written in 1998 I think?) about a man who moved to Iceland and documents his summer there. PLUS, the place where he lived is not far from where we are staying when we are there. This is what I love about these sales...you just NEVER know what treasures you will find!
This one was on the Fiction table, but I'm pretty sure it's non-fiction. It just looked interesting.
They had a good selection of French books too. I got an Agatha Christie mystery in French.
I also found a poetry book that is both in French and English:
And here's my husband's haul. There are a few in his stack that I'm interested in reading too.
It was fun. We had fun browsing and I got to cross a few books off of my list!
