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Smiling Shelves

Spring Break Book Haul

4/16/2015

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I buy way too many books.

So I set myself a goal this year of only buying an average of 5 books a month (still a lot, I know, but that cuts in half what I bought last year). I've been doing great so far - just 3 books (total!) in January, February, and March.

And then came April. It was spring break last week, which meant that I had the chance to go to a large used book sale and my favorite bookstore. So I acquired a few books (still below my average, however!). Here are the goodies that came home with me last week:
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Pat of Silver Bush by L.M. Montgomery (I actually bought this one online earlier this year, but this one matches the rest of my Montgomery collection, so I had to buy it!)
The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit (Because I always need to read more books by E. Nesbit.)
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (Just because it looked fun.)
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau (I enjoyed The City of Ember, so I thought I'd check out the sequel.)
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson (Another one I picked up because it looked fun.)
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother by Madeleine L'Engle (Did you know that Madeleine L'Engle kept journals? And that those journals have been published? I just recently found that out, so I had to snatch this one up when I saw it.)
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I just read Love in the Time of Cholera, and I hear this one is even better.)
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler (Because I am woefully ignorant about China.)
The Invention of Sarah Cummings by Olivia Newport (I love a good Christian fiction novel.)
The West End Horror by Nicholas Meyer (The "posthumous memoir" of Dr. Watson - as in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. How could anyone resist this book?)
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht (Because I don't read enough books set in Eastern Europe.)
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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Believe or not, I didn't own a copy of this book yet - and it's such a pretty purple!)
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby (Another book that I recently discovered the existence of.)
The Tale of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert (The first book in a series that I just decided I loved enough to start collecting.)
Treasure-House of the Language: The Living OED by Charlotte Brewer (I have a strange obsession with the Oxford English Dictionary. . .)
Buy any good books lately?
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Christine @Buckling Bookshelves link
4/17/2015 07:56:19 am

My husband really likes the Benedict Society series -- and that looks like a really pretty edition of A Little Princess -- used book sales are always SO tempting :)

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
4/18/2015 04:06:57 am

How can you resist books that cost a quarter? ;)

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