Here's a close up. Ahem....please excuse the Calvin Klein add in the background.After my arms got too sore carting around all my loot we checked out. My husband even found a hardback Caleb Carr book, one on Shackleton, a growing plants indoors book (we are thinking of doing window tomatoes and a herb garden), and a CD. Everything was a dollar so we walked out with $14 dollars worth of stuff.
Here's my loot:
I found two books for my Egyptian Book Challenge:
When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra by Colin Falconer
The Empire of Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Christian Jacq
A hard copy of Cold Mountain to go with my hard copy of Thirteen Moons which I adored.
Two novels I've been trying to win on other people's blog contests:
Guernica by Dave Boling
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
And the others were just random ones that I've been wanting to read. Except Sovereign which just looked good and I grabbed it.
If you missed the book fair, no worries. Housingworks Bookstore and Cafe is so cool and is open year round. I grabbed a cup of coffee and browsed around. I would have stayed longer but my better half was getting restless so I will have to come back some other time. I know they are having a pretty big sale this weekend.
I mean seriously...this is what I want my library to look like in my house someday. Well, without the people posing for me :)
Oh! Hopefully you'll review "When We Were Gods" soon. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've made a silent vow to not buy anymore books until my To Read pile drops below 15...
I'm interested to see what you think of Guernica ... it looks fascinating to me but I've heard both good and bad reviews of it.
ReplyDeleteI totally want my house library like that too. You go to so many cool events. How fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous bookstore! Enjoy all your new acquisitions :)
ReplyDeleteQuite a haul! I see you have "The Golden Compass" in there -- are you planning to pick up the rest of the series?
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