Morning Meanderings… Library Sale Finds!!! (You know there will be giveaways!)
Good morning everyone! Happy Friday! Yesterday I mentioned I was on my way to the library sale in the wee hours of the morning because I just think it is fun to get their early and start the line… well guess what? At 6:30 am (sale opens at 9 am), I was not first. Nope. 
Epic fail on my part, I stopped for coffee on my way in and a lady beat me by 5 minutes…. LOL
It was still a great time… I love that the regulars know me by name and I enjoy talking books with the people who are around me. Our sale is 50 cents a book – paperback or hardcover, 50 cents for a movie or audio book (my heart…. be still!) and they have a few newer titles they ask a little more for – between 1 and 3 dollars.
So…. I left with this:
I spent $23.00′s. I am thrilled with my haul!
I meant to put up a review yesterday afternoon of our Bookies review (and food!) to go with the book The Crying Tree but time once again got away from me. Instead, I spent my time setting up a Meal Train for a friend of ours who has been going through some tough health issues. If you have not checked out this site, please do so. I just learned about it myself and Meal train is super cool and easy to set up meals deliveries for a new parents, someone going through an illness, new home, or death in the family. AND – it is free. 
Today I work at the Library Sale – all day. They were short on help this year so I had told them they could have me all day. I start at 8. I may be there until 8 pm tonight. That’s ok… I am kind of excited (in a dorkish bookish way) to help people with their books. Laptop is going with me in the event there is an afternoon lull and I can sit and write up the review. I hope this weekend to actually get around to seeing some blogs… I miss checking out what everyone has going on… life has just been…. FULL.
Happy Friday everyone. Any fun weekend plans?
Posted on August 17, 2012, in Meanderings and tagged Morning Meanderings. Bookmark the permalink. 37 Comments.
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Brilliant haul, Sheila. Now you need a week off work to read them!
I think it sounds great to help out at a book sale. Anything with books is good fun. And all the people there will be book lovers, too!
LOL…. I think I would need a few months off…. me alone in a cabin in the woods with no internet, no phone, no distractions…. then I could read them all
Ooh, no wonder you like to get there early. Looks like some good ones in there….
They have a great sale Laurel and they only let in twenty at a time. I love the books, but the bookish socializing is just as much a part of it for me as well.
I love your book sale posts, Sheila. Looks like you found some good ones!
Thanks Mary – I stopped home for lunch real quick – I am a little wiped already from the sale but having fun
This is why I love library sales. You cannot beat the deals!!!
Exactly Meg!
I bet everyone in town knows you and your enthusiasm! You are so much fun!
That’s half the fun Kathy!
I just love chatting it up with the book people!
I wonder how many books you will come home with today!
Ugh… Patty you know we so well…. the answer is (while I am home for lunch) 16. Yes…. while cleaning and straightening… I found 16 more.
Our library is having a paperback book sale tomorrow. I am a Friend of the Library so I get early dibs. I can’t wait to see what I will come home with!
Nice! I am a Friend Of The library too – I just choose to wait in line
Holy smokes, what a deal! I already want to read “Eyes at The Window” (one of the books in your last pic) and I have no idea what it’s about. I just think it’s a really cool name.
Enjoy your books!
Delia – I dont know what it is about either – for 50 cents I go by catchy title and cover
You have some great books there! I don’t get how they can virtually give away so many. The books at our libraries all go back to the State Library, and then only the out of date, or books in poor condition go up for sale. I guess your library system bypasses the double handling.
Wow, I guess so Wendy. People can donate directly to the sale. I think can pick any they want after the sale ends.
Oh, okay, the public donate the books, and the library is just the venue. I get it now.:)
Warning! Lost by Gregory Maguire is one of the worst books ever.
OOH thanks for that tip Julie! I have read the first two before then gave them to my son….
Wow! Look at all those books! You are a master shopper. Hope you’re having fun working the sale today, and that you brought a couple more bookbags for any titles you may have missed last time around.
Exactly Caryn
Congrats on the haul!
Thanks Ashley! I love our sale! They do it twice a year and I try to make both.
Wow – you really made out like a bandit! I wish our library sale had selection like that.
I love our sale Carrie, I have been to quite a few others around the state and still think ours is the best selection and price.
I always love to see the report from your sale, it’s always so good! Congrats on a great haul.
We do have a good sale!
Thats an amazing pile. Looking forward to the individual reviews.
Thanks! I can not wait to get them organized
Wow, that is quite a haul. HOw long do you think it will take you to read them all?
Well…. I do not think I have read any from the spring sale yet…
Do I see another copy of Summer House? How many do you own? LOL I’m looking forward to a huge sale here next month, not that I need any more books that I don’t have time to read!
LOL.. why do people keep calling me out on that book?
I keep giving them away but I think I have three copies here and two more at the cabin 
I love Friends of the Libraries! I’m an on and off volunteer and current board member for the FOL Multnomah County (Portland, OR). It’s so amazing what they do. And I love seeing other people’s books. It looks like you have great titles there!
I love it too and hope to be more involved this next year in actively supporting my library.