Yes! Two HUGE Bryce Courtnay books for $1 each from the library discards rack for my D.

I could have bought a bag for $5 but couldn't see anything else I wanted.

Your score was magnificent, did you take off your sweater and wave it around? :-)

That was a good day's work, Skibby!

Quite a haul!

Fantastic haul! Our local library stopped doing book sales a couple of years ago and I miss them so much!

What a great selection! Stegner's "Angle of Repose" is a true classic and one of my favorites.

I love finding book bargains. Unfortunately, the pickings around here have been slim lately. The charity shop where I get many of my books has stopped accepting mass market paperbacks older than about 5 years, and has drastically cut down on accepting all older paperbacks. No more finding old pulp paperbacks with deliciously lurid covers (I collect those) or picking up a whole series of detective novels from the "for free" bin (like I did with Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn series). I do still occasionally find books I want, generally hard-cover editions and coffee-table books on various subjects, but they raised the prices on those. I do, however, usually come out of there with 2-3 books when they have a sale.

I love Angle of Repose. I think you will like it.

Many years ago I back in the pre-WWW internet days, I was on an all-text internet group called Quiltnet. A young woman named Jennifer Chiaverini started posting. Her husband was a graduate student at my old college (Penn State), and to fill her time she decided to write a novel based on quilt making. She consulted the Quiltnet group for quite some time as part of her research, the group members happily coaching her. In fact I remember answering some of her questions myself. She went on to publish an entire series, and moved on from there to writing biographical historic fiction. I've always felt rather proud of her success, almost as if I had been her mentor (which of course I was not!)

Rosefolly - that is so cool!

The Seniorcentre in the city which has all kinds of services (I mostly use the hairdresser, podiatrist and cafe) sells donated books. Sometimes they get a complete library but that isn't always a blessing! We have had old philosophy and YA books dumped. They rarely get sold and take up space. The bookcases have to be double banked and it is hard to see what is behind the first row, let alone on the lowest shelf!

I know that the donors mean well but the library worker in me itches to cull them!

Hi Skibby,

I have plans to get to a book sale this weekend, so I will be back to let you know how I make out! After reading your impressive list, I am even more excited to see what treasures I find!

And if I cannot fill my bag with stuff I want to read, I still grab a few of the popular titles and then drop them off at my hospital's cancer center for patients and their family members who are sitting in the waiting room for them.

PAM

PAM - what a nice idea. I'll adopt it.