Lovely Little Shelf

The last couple of days have been sort of great.  Shaun and I have been a one-car-family for the whole time that we’ve been married.  We have had a lot of car “issues” lately and had to borrow my parent’s truck to move, so we’ve both had a car for the last couple of weeks, which has been great.  Shaun teased me yesterday and said that the only time I leave the house is to go buy used books.  He’s not kidding.  I’ve been doing a dang good job too.

Check out my score from the last two days:

The first book there is The Doctor and the Diva, which I won from Jennie at Life is Short. Read Fast. I guess I didn’t get it at a book sale, but I got it in the mail yesterday so I’m counting it as part of my two-day book score!

The second pile is from a used bookstore in town.  We actually only have one that amounts to much and they were having a 50% off sale on all fiction. Here’s what I ended up with:  Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, School’s Out by Christophe Dufosse, A Woman Betrayed by Barbara Delinsky, Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, and Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern. These all added up to eight bucks.

The last pile is from the Hudson Library Sale, which I’ve proclaimed my love for before. It is incredible.  Yesterday, here’s what I got there: The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus, Jesusland by Julia Schreeres, The Unheard by Josh Swiller, The Accidental by Ali Smith, This I Believe edited by Jay Allison, and Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult.  The damage was five dollars.

Two days, twelve books, thirteen dollars? Not bad. Not bad at all!

I was really on the lookout for lighter books.  With this kid on the way, my head is in a zillion different places and in the last week I’ve started several “heavier” books and just cannot keep focused at all.  I’ll find myself just staring at the page and not remembering the last 10 pages I read.  I needed something that I could read while totally distracted.  I think I did a pretty good job in that regard and I’m looking forward to digging into these!