Lovely Little Shelf

As you guys, I’m sure, have gathered I’m a big time cheap skate. If I buy a book at full price, it is maybe the biggest day of my life.  I tend to rely on thrift stores, my mama, and library book sales for most of my books. The library that we usually go to has a pretty good book sale, but it’s only once a year.

The hoity-toity neighborhood near us has an INCREDIBLE library and they have their sale the first Saturday of every month. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that I mark my calendar.  The library itself is just beautiful and I could wander around in there for days. Seriously, check this out:

Stunning, right?

I couldn’t find pictures online of the children’s area, but it is seriously cute enough to make me cry a little. I’m obsessed.

Anyway, back to the book sale.  Shelves and shelves of books, all donated, all one single dollar. Seriously. A buck. And I frequently come across brand new releases.  It’s unreal.

We went yesterday, and here’s what I ended up with:

The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan

Pharmakon, by Dirk Wittenborn

Ballad of the Whisky Robber, by Julian Rubinstein

One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus

For six dollars. Isn’t that amazing? I know that it just shows of my infinite nerdiness that I cannot even find the words to tell you how excited I am about my new little pile of books. Ah well.

Just a side note: On the way to the library sale yesterday, we stopped at the library that I use and got a couple of books that were on hold for me.  In the backseat, were 3 new bookshelves.  We splurged a little at Target yesterday and decided to make my book-area look incredible, so I’ll keep you updated on that. Anyway, 3 giant bookshelves and about 10 books were the whole contents of the back of our car. So nerdy and satisfying!