I love the two sales our Local Library does each year. One in the spring (Aprilish) and one in the fall. 
The fall one was yesterday and even though I was moving my son to college on this same day – he knows me well enough to say that we will leave after I return home from the book sale.
At 8:30 am (later then my usual arrival time but had a commitment prior) I take my spot in line, anticipating the 9 am opening of the doors… I suspect feeling much like the kids felt that waited outside Wonka Land in the movie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.
At 9:00 am…. the doors open and I am in!!! Books, books, everywhere! I start
where I always do, in the oversize paperback section, my favorite book format. I have wisely tucked money in my pocket as I know better then to try to fight through the crowds with a purse. There is also the inevitable crawling under the tables of books where they stack the overstock.
I emerge by 9:45 am with a $26 total. That’s right…. 52 books. This spring I had spent $35 so I have done better…LOL
Here are my purchases:
Book Journey 
Wow – You got some great books. Two of my favorite books The Long Way Gone and Blood Orange.
Way to go.
Hi Debbie thanks! I have not read either of them but to see that they are favs of yours… they may need to go to the top! 🙂
Awesome selection! You found so many good books in there. Harlen Coben, Elizabeth Berg, Debbie Macomber…. what a haul! My library’s sale is coming up next month and I can’t wait! *L* Enjoy!
Thanks! I am a huge Coben fan and I may already have some of these but its Coben!!! AND its 50 cents Coben!!! 🙂
Congratulations on your books I love book sales at the library
Penney
Thanks Penny!
Sweet Jesus, that is amazing!!! Wow, you really was resourceful! Two books that I noticed in particular were Memoirs of a Geisha and Jane Austen Book Club. I’m looking forward to the reviews!
LOL…. love your comment! I have read geisha but not Jane Austens Book Club. I look forward to it!
Wow! Great Job! You’ll love The Choice by Nicholas Sparks!
Thanks – Sparks for me can go either way… he is usually predictable, but every once in awhile I find one of his that seems to have more heart – and more depth. I hope this is one of them.
Fantastic haul, Sheila. I’ve never seen a selection like that when my library puts books out.
Hi Michael,
They take in a lot of donated books. I find a lot of great reads and thanks to all the great book blogs out there I have so many titles I am keeping an eye out for. 🙂
Thanks Michael! We do have a couple great sales a year and I always make sure I am early as the line can wrap around the building and they only let so many in at a time. 🙂
You got some great books! Happy reading. 🙂
Thanks! 🙂
I love library book sales – though yours is cheaper than mine! I’m still trying to work through my stacks of books from my library’s book sale at the beginning of the summer! So good luck, and enjoy!
I havent made it through my earlier purchases either but cant resist the great books at that price! 🙂
You totally scored! I’m wondering how you got all those books out of there!
They have a couple guys willing to help carry your books out. I had two grocery sacks and a box full!
Library booksales are the best! Love In The Time of Cholera is fantastic, I hope you enjoy it 🙂
Thanks! I am looking forward to that read!
It would be hard to stop yourself at only 50 cents a book! My library book sale is coming up and I really don’t need any more books but I know I’m going to have to go.
LOL – it is hard to stop. I circle teh sale about three times to make sure I didnt miss out on anything and it is hard to walk in there it is so crowded.
Whoa, that’s a pretty awesome selection of books. (: Many of them I’m unfamiliar with, but the one that really caught my eye was The Choice by Nicholas Sparks.
I love his writing, and that book his by far my favorite. I really think you’ll enjoy it!
Hmph. I hope *my* Library has a book sale….
I am unfamiliar withmany of them as well but for me – that is half the fun. 🙂 I love finding an unknown treasure.
You got some great titles there! Congrats!
Although you have a no purse rule, you must carry a large tote bag with you for all those goodies or do they provide baskets?
Our fall sale isn’t until September.
That is a great idea! They have paper bags available there but a sturdier bag would be better!
Our next library sale is in October. I can’t wait! I usually miss it by literally one day, but this time I’ve marked my calendar. 🙂
I have done that – missed the sale and was so BUMMED!! Glad you have it marked and I am excited to read about your finds! 🙂
Awesome finds! The book sale sounds like a really great thing – I’m wishing that my library did that. Actually, my campus library is great for research but sucks for pretty much anything else. Luckily, there is a city library down the street, but I doubt it has a giant book sale like the one you visited. It’s crazy awesome that so many people go and feel just as excited about books as you do. I wish I had that around here – I feel like in the Valley (where I live) people are far more preoccupied with computers to care about reading. It’s a shame.
I love our library book sale and I have been to a few others out of my area and find ours to be really the best I have experienced. They ask people to donate their read books so we have such a wonderful selection. At 50 cents each I cant resist!
Great finds! I enjoyed Memoirs of a Geisha, and Ahab’s Wife is waiting on my bookshelf for me. I look forward to reading your reviews of any and all of these books.
I have read Memoirs of A Geisha (but cant pass up a good deal LOL) I look forward to reading Ahab’s Wife.
You got great books. My library used to do this for $1.00 a book, but the books were never good and they were always ones that were donated to the library and were falling apart. I wish my library had good books like this. 🙂