Showing posts with label used bookstore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label used bookstore. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

What am I reading now?

I'm about 50 pages into Judith Henry Wall's Family Secrets, and so far it's a little slow moving, but I've heard good things about it. I'll probably finish in a couple of days.

Yesterday I took some books to my local used bookstore, and no one else was in there at the time, and the owner struck up a conversation about some of the books I took in. Then she mentioned the books she had finished, and the books she had gotten in recently or was reading to review, all things bookish really! It turns out she had just gotten a copy of Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's first book, and when I mentioned it, she took it off the shelf and sold it to me! This is a book I've picked up and put down several times in Barnes and Noble; I know I really want to read it, but I couldn't bring myself to pay full price (and I'm actually NOT a huge fan of hardcover books in the first place). She told me to bring in a copy of the list of books I want and she'll call whenever she gets some. I swear the longer I live, the more I realize it pays to know people :)

Happy reading to all!