I apologize for the belated weekend links! We had a busy and lovely weekend, and I just didn’t make it to the computer much.
“Fucking awesome!” was my first reaction to seeing these 10 bookstores repurposed from unused buildings.
I’ve always really liked Junot Diaz (though I was not particularly a fan of Oscar Wao; perhaps I need to read it again?) and this article about how he wrote a sexist character without writing a sexist book only improved my opinion of him.
Hilarious. “An Open Letter to The Look That Slowly Forms on Your Face When I Tell You I Am a Librarian.”
In other news, we went to our local library’s annual book sale on Saturday and scored some awesome stuff. Our library system as a whole hosts two separate book sales a year, but we’ve always had much better luck at our smaller neighborhood sale.
For a grand total of $16.50, we brought home:
- Brand new hardback copies of Swamplandia and The Snow Child
- The Inheritance of Loss
- Out Stealing Horses and The Hundred Secret Senses (for Jason’s classroom library)
- Hardback copies of The Story of Babar and The Foot Book
- Two Winnie the Pooh board books
- Two Richard Scarry picture books (I was thrilled to find these as our daughter is Richard Scarry-obsessed right now)
- Nonfiction picture book about whales
- Some miscellaneous children’s paperbacks — Owl Moon, Franklin’s Thanksgiving, and Johnny Appleseed
Seriously…not bad! Get thee to a library book sale.
What a great haul! I love library book sales. I still visit the library in the town I used to live in since they have an ongoing sale of 25 cents a paperback (or 5 for $1!) Some of my favorite books I’ve read come from library book sales and thrift shops.
I ordered Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story, by Howard Means from Better World Books and it’s on my very high stack of books waiting for their turn.
Oh, those are amazing prices! Yes, it’s easier to take a chance on book when it’s $1 vs. $10 or $15 or $20, you know? And that Johnny Appleseed book sounds really interesting…I will have to check it out.