Going Out of Business Part 2

That Borders bookstore near my folks' house in Oklahoma? It was in the final days of their closing and they were down to the bare shelves over the weekend, so I succumbed took advantage of their huge sale prices and bought a box load of books.  Really, I need to seek treatment for this...but at roughly $4 a book, it's still cheaper than one pair of shoes.

In no particular order:

The one I left behind:



Dang it...I should have grabbed that one too.

Going Out of Business

Borders recently announced that is was closing many of its stores in the coming months.  We don't have a Borders here in Arkansas, but the store around the corner from my folks' house in Oklahoma is closing at the end of March.  My mom asked me the other day if I needed any books? Really, Mom, what a question!!  Need books -- I never need books -- but I want them like I want chocolate, or donuts, or a shopping spree to Target-- it's a addiction that will never be satisfied, and the more I buy the more I want!

Since I am such an obedient daughter, I couldn't deny her request, so I sent her a list of a dozen titles that I have wanted to read and asked to to pick a few and surprise me.

This is what she brought to me this weekend:

Beneath the Lion's Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

Summary B&N:

An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution.

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Summary by B&N:

The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel’s life to draw her into the Savior’s redeeming love.

AND

Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay

From the Washington Post:

...a magnificent tale of love, loss, betrayal and redemption…Characters appear like an endless stacking nest of Matryoshka dolls, one more fascinating and intriguing than the next…The complex story is multi-layered and labyrinthine so that the reader, just like these characters, does not know whom to believe or distrust…Toward the end, with many unanswered questions swirling, the author lets the truth ebb and flow until a final riptide of revelations leaves the reader profoundly moved.

Thank you Mom for my treat!  At least they don't have any calories!

Birthday Book Bling

Ok, I didn’t really get any bling, but I got books, and in my household, books are a lot more important than bling.

Thank you to my FIL for this:



There is nothing I like more than a Barnes and Noble giftcard!

From my husband I got:

In The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell travels once again through America's past, this time to seventeenth-century New England. From the British Library to the Mohegan Sun casino, from the nation's first synagogue to a Mayflower waterslide, Vowell studies the Puritan effect and finds their beliefs about church and state more interesting than their buckles-and-corn reputation would suggest.

And...



An atlas you ask? Because we are getting ready to take a major road trip in the spring and I want to be prepared!

Finally, I bought myself this:

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II.

This book has intrigued me since it was first published. I thought if I finally had it on my shelf I might be motivated to read it.

It was a great birthday!

Now, I need to go have some cake for breakfast!

Book Buying!

Spent my Saturday at my favorite used book store, River Market Books and Gifts -- and this is what I walked away with:



AND



We read Emily of New Moon as a book group choice, and I absolutely loved it! I've always wanted to read the sequels, and now I have them -- got them both for $2.

Then I added this for $3.50:



and this for $3:



Two blogging friends wrote raving reviews about the the above two books. Still Alice is here -- Josephine B. is here. If I can get out of my "reader's block" (similar to writer's block -- I haven't finished a book in two weeks! It never takes me two weeks to read a book!), I plan on starting any one of these soon!

Book Buying!

I went on a bit of a book buying spree this weekend. Not like I don't have enough unread books on my shelf...but sometimes I just can't help myself! These were all on my Goodreads list. One I got at the used book store for $3 -- the others were all discounted at various book stores.

My $3 purchase was this:



I have the PBS version on DVD, but books are always better!

Next I picked up:



AND



"Charlotte Bronte" was 30% off -- and Lousia May Alcott was only $5.

Finally, I found this at Sam's:



Who knew they carried Georgette Heyer at Sam's??? They had 4 titles to choose from...this one had the best cover!

Oh, soooo many books to read...so little time! If the children would only feed, clothe, and raise themselves, I would be set!

(Oh, and my daughter bought this...why didn't they have books like this when I was her age? All I remember reading was Little House on the Prairie).