Book geek

I love library book sales. I’m a geek and make The Husband get up early on a Saturday morning so we can go fight the other people crammed into a tiny room and search for the gems among all the discarded books.

Yesterday I walked out with a plastic grocery bag full of Sweet Valley High Senior Year books. I stopped reading SVH as a teen before the Senior Year books were published, so I’ve never read any of them. I couldn’t find the entire series, but there were a lot of them, including the final one.

I also managed to snag Yours Turly, Shirley by Ann M. Martin, which I never read as a kid, and Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements. I spotted this in a box on the floor and exclaimed to The Husband, “Oh my God! I can’t believe they still have this!” I had it and Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade as a kid, but I gave them away in the Great Book Purge during my teen years. At one point I decided I was way too old to be reading children’s and young adult books, so I gave all of mine away. Something I now regret because even though I had told myself I was too old, I’ve never stopped enjoying them.

We also got a DVD of RV, which The Husband had been wanting because he loves Robin Williams. My twenty books plus The Husband’s DVD were only $11 total. I really love library sales! Not that I need new books since I have no shelf space left on my two bookcases…