Aside from my usual monthly book shopping expedition, I also
attend a booksale at the local library. I'm a member of their Friends of the
Library group, so I get to go to the Member's Only sales. It's lovely to dig
through the books before they've been picked over by the general public.
I purchased far to many to list here (shocker, right?) so
I'll just list my best finds:
The Story of Mankind by Hendrick Willem van Loon: Not only
is this a Newbery book, it is the FIRST book to win the Newbery Medal.
Published in 1921, it won the first Medal, given in 1922. It can be expensive
to buy but I purchased it for $1 in good condition at the library sale. I won't
lie - I may have done a little victory dance in the aisle.
Victory Conditions by Elizabeth Moon: You wouldn't think
this one would be hard to find, being that Moon is a popular author. But it
was. The last in her Vatta's War series, it was harder to find that I expected.
Perhaps because it's the last in the series and those are usually less popular
than the beginning.
Fanny by Stephen Cosgrove: This is a Serendipity Book. As a
child, I was an avid reader of the Serendipity books - The Wheedle on the
Needle, The Gnome from Nome, the Savapotumus. To actually find one in a thrift
shop - Euphoria! I'm excited to collect the rest of them!
In all, I've acquired 30+ new books in the last month, and
nearly twice that many to give away. With a nephew and a godson, I'm always on
the prowl for books for children. My books come from all sorts of wild places -
thrift shops and used book stores, online venues and library book sales. They
are lost and wayward souls that I adopt and give good homes too!
What books have you acquired recently?
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