BOOKS: Library Sale Revisited

Thinking that everything was half price all week at the library's used book sale, I went again yesterday and loaded my arms with an interesting assortment of volumes.

When I reached the front table to pay and discovered that the 50% off prices wouldn't kick in until Thursday and Friday, I didn't have the strength to return my selections to the jumbled piles where I might never see them again.  Once in my arms I couldn't release them.

"It's for a good cause," the volunteer at the check-out table assured me, smiling.

So here's what followed me home yesterday:

• "Wicked French for the Traveler" by Howard Tomb
• "Earth Prayers from Around the World" Edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon
• "Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer" by Noel Perrin
• "Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait" by Carlos Baker
• "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" by Daniel Pool
• "Art of Preserving" by Jan Berry
• "The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World" by Ken Adler
• "The Fountain of Age" by Betty Friedan
• Plus a couple of items to give as gifts

Not saying how much I spend.  It was less than $20, but still I'm a little embarrassed.

I suppose I shouldn't be--it was far less even than if I'd purchased them used on Amazon.  I stayed within the budget I'd set for myself in anticipation of this annual opportunity to stock up on reading material.

I'll admit it.  I'm a book addict.  I'll probably go back for the $5 bag-full-o-books sale on Saturday.

In the meantime I've got to find space on our shelves.