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Yes, I'm a geek. Had a week at work packed with bad (so far) and very little sleep. So today I took off work (I submitted a leave request Monday) to go to my local library book sale!

My new books:

• 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories edited by Weinberg, Dziemianowicz, Greenberg


• A Taste for Blood edited by Martin Greenberg


• In Search of Dracula by McNally & Florescu (hardcover)


• Creating the Worlds of Star Wars- 365 Days by John Knoll (hardcover, beautiful photos)


• Star Wars: The essential Guidde to Vehicles and Vessels by Bill Smith


• NHL Hockey: An Official Fan Guide by John MacKinnon (hardcover, 10 years old but lots of photos)


• Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized complete Trek Voyages by Gross & Altman


• America's Lighthouses: an illustrated history by Francis Ross Holland, Jr


• The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello (For a coworker- I was telling her about this book and her birthday's coming up)


• Gay Dads by David Strah (I plan to read and then Bookcross with it)


• How to Write Funny edited by John B. Kachuba (Reading/Bookcrossing)


• Treasurey of Tips for Writers edited by Marvin Weisbord (There were lots of writing books, and this looked good)


• How to Write a Romance and Get it Published by Kathryn Falk


• The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction by Barnaby Conrad & the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference staff (hardcover, I almost went to this conference this year!)


• The Action Hero's Handbook by Borgenichts (from authors of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbooks)


• The Goddess Tarot by Kris Waldherr (bought to BookCross with, but I think I might keep it- it's so pretty)


• The Little Black Book of Dreams (BookCrossing)


• InuYasha Vol 1 ( (Manga)


• InuYasha Vol 7 (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• InuYasha Vol 10 (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• InuYasha Vol 14 ( (Manga, Hardcover)


• InuYasha Vol 17 (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 1 by (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 2 by (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 3 (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• Cardcaptor Sakura Vol 4 (Manga, Reading/probably BookCrossing)


• X/1999: Crescendo Vol 8 (Manga, SQUEEE! Another in the series I didn't have already)


• Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa


• A Good Story & other stories by Donald Westlake


• The African Queen by C.S.Forrester (Oversized paperback, will probably BookCross with after reading)


• Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix by JKR (Paperback, to add to my collection of paperback versions to mark up)


• Batman Begins by Dennis O'Neil (Aww :-))


• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury


• The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Oversized paperback, Prequel to the Mists of Avalon)


• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursela LeGuin (BookCrossing- for my birthday buddy)


• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (BookCrossing- for my birthday buddy)


• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (BookCrossing- for my birthday buddy)


• Big Fish by Daniel Wallace (BookCrossing)


• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (BookCrossing)


• The Bodyguard by Joan Johnston (BookCrossing)


• A Separate Peace by John Knowles (BookCrossing)


• Fever Cell by Leonard Goldberg (BookCrossing- fire is this week's cover)


• The Sicilian by Mario Puzo (Audiobook, unabridged)


• The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Audiobook, unabridged, SQUEEE!)


• Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz (Ausiobook, unabridged)


• The Lost World byMichael Crichton (Audiobook)


• The Beach House by James Patterson & Peter DeJonge (Audiobook, unabridged)


• The Best American Travel Writing edited by Bill Bryson (Audiobook, unabridged)


• Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt (Audiobook)

and one other little book I'm sending to someone here as a gift so I won't mention it by name.

So that's 50 books (7 of them audiobooks) for $65. Not fantastic, but not too bad. I'm planning to go by tomorrow for anything I might have missed. And then on Saturday during their big Fill-a-bag sale. There was a huge Hockey Treasury for $10 that looked good but not *that* good ;-)

All righty. So this week's cover challenge at BookCrossing is Nursery Rhymes. A book about them, a book with a title taken from one, a book with the word 'rhyme' or 'nursery' or even 'verse' in the title.

I had SUCH a difficult time! Sort of... LOL I'm really, really addicted to buying books, have I mentioned that? LOL Here was my morning:

Went to King's Park Library:
-Looked at sale shelves a LONG time
-Ended up purchasing:
Dogwatching (I own Catwatching already, hardback)
Catlore (follow-up to Catwatching, hardback)
The Mists of Avalon (will BookCross with)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (will BookCross with)
-I passed on 'The Tenth Insight'. I'm listening to the Celestine Prophecy (sp?) right now on tape and now I feel compelled to read the follow-up book... even though I'm HATING the first book. Why do I still feel compelled to read another book I hate, just to complete the series? I can be so OCD sometimes about books. Luckily, though, both books were on the sale shelf and they looked so happy together that I didn't want to separate them. So I managed to justify it and let myself escape without it. Whew!
-Cost of visit: $1.20
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: A big fat 0

Then I went to Pohick Regional Library:
-Looked at the sale shelves an even LONGER time
-Ended up purchasing:
Blaster Master (young adults novel based on one of my favorite Nintendo games! LOL)
Chasing Stanley (OMG! I just bought this off Amazon.com for list price. Doh! I'll BookCross with it... maybe in honor of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I might start a bookring/bookbox)
Sphere (will BookCross with- actually, will probably send out in honor of my 5 year BC birthday in August)
The X-Files: Antibodies (will BookCross with)
Buffy the Vamp Slayer: Ghost Roads (cuz I can't resist anything with Spike on the cover)
Gorillas in the Mist (will BookCross with)
Paige by Paige (Trading Spaces book, will BookCross with after I read it)
Eeyore Loses a Tail (hardcover pop-up book rather damaged but it's *Eeyore*!)
-And then, at the end of my searching I finally found 'Ride a Cockhorse' by Raymond Kennedy!!! However, I couldn't remember if that was a Nursery Rhyme or just a song from my childhood. I debated a LONG time, especially since it was a hardcover and cost $1. But then I finally bought it for BookCrossing, intending to look it up when I got home.
-Cost of visit: $6
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: 1 maybe?????

Then I stopped by the used bookstore on my way home:
-Went straight to the children's section
-Found a beautiful hardcover Mother Goose collection for $11. Did not bother picking that up.
-Turned the corner and found a hardback easy reader 'Jack and Jill' which I immediately picked up
-Then I looked through all their shelves and found a book entitled 'The Sneeze' which I had to thumb through but absolutely could not make myself purchase. LOL
-On the second-to-last one, found a black & white checked Mother Goose collection exactly like the one I had when I was a kid. It was... $3 I think, and huge. And right next to it was the Random House Poetry hardcover book I had as a kid containing that nose poem with the illustration of the gentleman blowing his stuffy nose that I used to LOVE looking at when I was young. *blush*
-BUT right next to those two was a very skinny copy of 'My First Mother Goose Book' which was actually my very first Mother Goose book as a child!!!!!!!!!!! In fact, this one is in better condition than mine was/is because mine was second-hand, too. ANYWAY, I was thrilled! I put Jack & Jill back and got this one because it was only $0.75. Which, in that store (always horribly over-priced) is incredible!
-I skimmed through the book and saw, right there, 'Ride a Cockhorse' just as I'd expected. But I still bought the Mother Goose book because of my attachment to it. And because it was nice enough to confirm my suspicion about the more expensive book I'd just purchased.
-I looked at the sports books, hoping for hockey, and found a kid's book on the Great One, but didn't buy it ($3). Then I looked at the TV/Sci-Fi section and almost bought another Man from UNCLE book, or an Earth 2 book, or a Buffy/Angel book, but held back.
-I heard a women asking the man who runs the store about Diana Gabaldon, and the guy didn't know who that was (WHAT THE HELL?) so I took that as my cue to approach the counter and fill him in and check out, thus sparing myself the shame of buying more books I won't have time to read
-Cost of visit: $0.79 (with tax)
-Nursery Rhyme Books Found: 1!!!

So now I obviously wish that I'd just tried the used bookstore first. And I feel like I'm addicted to buying books. Damn hobby! LOL It was a fun albeit frustrating morning.

Last day of booksales for me (bet you're pretty tired of these lists by now. LOL)

• Star Trek TNG: Exiles by Howard Weinstein
  
• Star Trek TNG: All Good Things by Michael Jan Friedman (*cries* good episode!) (hardback)
  
• The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss (oversized paperback)
  
• Star Treak TNG: Survivors by
  
• Star Trek TNG: The Devil's Heart by
  
• Star Trek TNG: Power Hungry by
  
• Batman: The Ultimate Evil by Andrew Vachss (hardcover)
  
• Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
• Audio Book- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (unabridged)
  
• From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
  
• The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien (this is SUCH a good/horrible book, but I definitely wanted a copy)
  
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (I'll probably keep this for myself, because it's a nice copy)
  
• Girl with a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier (oversized paperback)
  
• Places I Never Meant to Be: original stories by censored writers edited by Judy Blume (oversized paperback)
  
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (overzied paperback) (because I couldn't resist Jude staring up at me from the cover)
  
• Tis by Frank McCourt (oversized paperback)
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (hardcover) (for BookCrossing)
  
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (because it's one of those things I think I should read)
  
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar (oversized paperback)
  
• The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (oversized paperback)
  
• The Darkness Visible by William Golding
  
• Fair Play by Deirdre Martin (SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE! My copy's very used, and this one's pretty, so it's for me!)
  
• Fair Play by Deirdre Martin (for BookCrossing)
  
• Through the Grinder by Cleo Coyle (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (for BookCrossing)
  
• Red Dragon by Thomas Harris (for BookCrossing)
  
• Alie in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (for BookCrossing)
  
• A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie (for BookCrossing)
  
• Digital Fortress by Dan Brown (for BookCrossing)
  
• Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (for BookCrossing)
  
• Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare (for BookCrossing)
  
• A Case of Need by Michael Crichton (for BookCrossing- tis my favorite MC novel... okay, probably because of the character with a cold and the lovely main character gets hurt scene at the end, but Sphere is a close second)
  
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (my favorite book... for BookCrossing) (oversized paperback)
  
• The Pig, the Prince, and the Univorn by Karen A. Brush (I might read, or I might just BookCross with)
  
• A Midsumer Night's Dream by Shakespeare (for BookCrossing)
  
• Eight Tales of Terror by Edgar Allan Poe (for BookCrossing- I release a Poe book every year on Halloween)
  
• Macbeth by Shakespeare (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis (for BookCrossing... even though it's soooo pretty)
  
• Scary Stories 3 by Alvin Schwartz (for BookCrossing)
  
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (for BookCrossing)
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (for BookCrossing)
  
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (for BookCrossing)
  
• 101 Spooky Halloween Jokes by Melvin Berger (for BookCrossing)
  
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien (for BookCrossing)
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone byJK Rowling (for BookCrossing)
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone byJK Rowling (for BookCrossing)
  
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets byJK Rowling (for BookCrossing)
  
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (for BookCrossing)
  
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (for BookCrossing)
  
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (for BookCrossing)
  
• The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
  
• Find Me by Rosie O'Donnell (hardback)
  
• Still More George W. Bushisms editd by Jacob Weisberg (probably will give as a holiday present)
  
• Shamrocks, Harps and Shillelaghs by Edna Barth
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Gunfire at Gettysburg by Doug Wilhelm
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Scene of the Crime by Doug Wilhelm
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Superbike by Edward Packard
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Dionsaur Island by Edward Packard
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure: Alien, Go Home! by Seddon Johnson (probably with all these unnumbered ones, I'll BookCross with them)
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure #70: Invaders of the Planet Earth by Richard Brightfield
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure #48: Spy for George Washington by Jay Leibold
  
• Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift (oversized paperback)
  
• Glencoe by John Prebble (Squee!)
  
• Culloden by John Prebble (Double Squee!)
  
• Burns Anthology by Collins Gem (Triple Squee!)
  
• The Sketch Book by Washington irving (nicer & more complete copy than the one I have)
  
• The African Queen by C.S. Forester (cuz it's Forester, yeah)
  
• A Series of Unfortunate Events #4: The Miserable Mill by
  
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (I already have some Anne books, but I don't have the full set... so I thought I might collect a full set that looks alike instead of the mismatched ones I have now)
  
• Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
  
• Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
  
• Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery
  
• How to be a Pirate! by Caroline Grimshaw (Arg!)
  
• Celtic Cross-Stitch by Mike Vikery (a gift for a good friend)
  
• Sports Illustrated: Ice Hockey by Mark Mulvo
  
• The Uncanny X-Men (awwwww! How could I resist? Is in great condition, too)
  
• The Hand of Dinotopia by Alan Dean Foster (oversized paperback)
  
• The Year the Wolves Came by Bebe Faas Rice (hardback, signed by the author- I couldn't resist!)
  
• Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (hardcover, illustrated)
  
• The Iliad & the Odyssey by Homer (hardcover)
  
• The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (paperback with Saruman on the cover, because I have movie versions of the other two books)
  
• Chronicles of King Arthur by Andrea Hopkins (hardcover and gorgeous)
  

Whew! So that's... 86 or 87 (counting one I didn't list because it's also probably going to be a present for someone online) for $10.

Which brings my whole grand weekend total to: 196 books for (yikes, good thing I have 4 jobs!) $88.50. That's $0.45 a book. Seriously, not bad. And now I will never have to buy another book again. LMAO! I'll never have time to read half of these. Thank goodness I've already read some of them, and a good box or two are just for BookCrossing with. I've got to find myself a cheaper hobby. LOL!

Okay, I'm off to eat some lunch and work on today's Kakuro puzzle. And then it's back to watching lovely, depressing movie and writing 'Visiting' (mmm. Jamiefic WITH sneezes *EG*)

So this was the second day of the booksale I went to yesterday, and the first day of another booksale. I went to both today. I put in for 4 hours of leave time this morning at work, but ended up only taking 2 hours and 45 minutes. And when I got there the whole place was in crisis. LOL

But here's what I got today:

• Star Trek TNG: The Q Continuum: Q-Space by Greg Cox (Book 1 of 3)
  
• Star Trek TNG: Q-in-Law by
  
• Life Signs (The Biology of Star Trek) by Susan Jenkins and Robert Jenkins (hardcover)
  
• Star Trek TNG: Technical manual by Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda (Squee!)
  
• Star Trek: Qu's Guide to the Continuum by Michael Jan Friedman & Robert Greenberger (OMG! Might be the best book ever written! *laughs hysterically*
  
• A Guide to the Star Wars Universe by Bill Slavicsek (2nd edition- doesn't have the prequels, but anything's better than nothing)
  
• Dinatopia Lost by Alan Dean Foster (hardcover and brand new)
  
• Graphic Novel-Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire by Doug Petrie and Ryan Sook (Awww! Look at cute comic-book Giles clean his glasses! Look at cute comic-book wheelchair-bound Spike getting all snarky about evil!Angel's plans)
  
• The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks (I loved this series as a kid, and am trying slowly to get a whole set)
  
• The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks (ditto)
  
• Two-Minute Mysteries by Donald Sobol (I love these books)
  
• The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A.Barron
  
• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle (pretty illustrations, too!)
  
• Arthurian Legends edited by Mike Ashley (hardcover) (will probably give as a present)
  
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories in the Sketch Book by Washington Irving (as I've mentioned, I went to Washington Irving Middle School. I have a fondness for this guy)
  
• The Adventures of Wishbone: Be A Wolf by Brad Strickland (Wishbone does Beowulf = too cute! I'm dying of the cute!)
  
• The Panther Book of Scottish Short Stories selected by James Campbell
  
• Irish Miles by Frank O'Connor
  
• Celtic Fairy Tales collected by Joseph Jacobs
  
• Grimms' Tales translated by Ralph Manheim (because it's the complete set and in SUCH good condition)
  
• The Eternal Highlander by Hannah Howell & Lynsay Sands (oversided paperback) (Yeah, ick, romance... but this one I couldn't resist...)
  
• 1984 by George Orwell (for BookCrossing because I already have a copy)
  
• 1984 by George Orwell (for BookCrossing.. yeah, two of 'em)
  
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (I might keep this one, it's pretty and I don't have a copy of my own)
  
• Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman (awesome book, but I already have a copy. This one's for BookCrossing)
  
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (I already have a copy, this is for BookCrossing)
  
• Wicked by Grefory Maguire (I bought a better copy yesterday, but this one's for my Christmas BookCrossing boddy)
  
• Becomming a Writer by Dorotea Brande (I have a copyof this already, so this one's going in my BookCrossing writing bookbox)
  
• How to Write Your Autobiography by Patricia Ann Case (writing bookbox)
  
• You can... You should... Write Poetry by Dan Aslett (writing bookbox)
  
• Writing Without the Muse: 50 beginning exercises for the creative writer by Beth Baruch Joselow (bought for writing bookbox... might keep for self. Looks awesome!)
  
• Audio Book-The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (I like her stuff, and have been wanting to read this)
  
• Audio Book-The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (yeah, I'll give away the copy I bought yesterday to my bookcrossing buddy and listen to it on CD instead, probably)
  
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (hardcover) (This was seriously so pretty a book, I couldn't pass it up)
  
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (hardcover) (This contains the first 3 books, unabridged and illustrated. I bought it for a coworker who LOVED the AofGG movies but has never read the books!)
  
• Papua New Guinea: A picture-sound book by Jank Curth (hardcover) (Because it's place-belong-me!)
  
• Video-The Colorado Avalanche Landslide: 1995-96 Championship Season (LMAO! I wasn't going to get this but then I read the back, and Colorado's one of my favorite teams and I just HAD to buy this! I'm very silly)
  
• And then... the best of the bunch... The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (hardcover) (This is a GORGEOUS copy with a green cover and gold on the front. It's got the author's illustrations in color and looks like it hasn't ever been read it's in such good condition, except for a little tape on the binding. I'm thrilled at the pretty- how could I pass up such a thing at $2?)
  

So all this went for $37.50. That's 38 items for $37- about a dollar each, also. But some really excellent books (lots of hardbacks and some audio books, and some presents) Seriously, I'm thrilled. I keep going back and forth between the Buffy comic and The Hobbit and Q's Guide. I'm having a VERY happy fangirl time tonight while I watch hockey.

Just came back from the library book sale again. I only got two bags' worth but I think I got a lot of good stuff and useful stuff:

For Bookcrossing:

• 19 Dog books for the upcoming dog challenge
  
• The Scottish Rose by Jill Jones
  
• Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
  
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
  
• Dubliners by James Joyce
  
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  
• The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
  
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
  
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (yes, two copies)
  
• Star Wars (George Lucus)
  
• Star Trek: A Flag Full of Stars by Brad Ferguson
  
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (it's such a nice copy... but I already own a copy...)
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  

For me (or maybe BookCrossing eventually for a few of them):

• Her Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff
  
• X-Men (movie novelization)
  
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White (I thought that went remarkably well with the above X-Men book, no? heehee)
  
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck (I've never read this)
  
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (One of the few Dickens works I've never read)
  
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I haven't read this either)
  
• Star Trek DS9: Objective: Bajor by John Peel
  
• Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau (I've always wanted to read this cover-to-cover, not just portions like we did in school)
  
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  
• Winter Moon by Dean Koontz
  
• X-Files: Runes by Kevin J. Anderson
  
• X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant
  
• Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry
  
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (I have all three in separate paperbacks, but thought this was nice to have them all together in one volume)
  
• Star Trek: Q-Squared by Peter David (Hardback- I have it in paperback already)
  
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery (Hardback and beautifully illustrated)
  
• The Art Book by Phaidon
  
• Catwatching by Desmond Morris
  
• Wolves by Candace Savage (I thought it would be good inspiration and I don't own any wolf books)
  
• The Wolves of Yellowstone by Phillips & Smith
  
• Trail of the Wolf by R. D. Lawrence
  
• National Gallery of Washington
  
• National Gallery of London
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  
• Computer Game: Star Trek: Judgement Rites (I dunno if it's any good, but it looks not so hard and interesting)
  
• Audiobook: Animal Farm by George Orwell (I'm in the middle of reading it right now, but I thought the audio might be fun)
  
• Audiobook: Icebound by Dean Koontz (For me/my boss)
  
• Audiobook: Alice & Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (I checked when I got home and it is missing one of four tapes- grrr. So I dunno)
  
• Audiobook: The Shining- Stephen King
  
• Audiobook: Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
  
• Audiobook: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  
• Audiobook: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
  
• Audiobook: The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  
• Audiobook: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  
• Audiobook: Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamende Pilcher (I have bought copies of this for BC but thought reading it/listening to it would be good to do)
  
• Audiobook: I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy (Read by Leonard Nimoy)
  
• Audiobook: Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic by Jeri Taylor (Read by Kate Mulgrew)
  
• Audiobook: The James Joyce Audio Collection (Some read by James Joyce)
  

So not bad for $10 in total, right? *G* This should last me a VERY long while!!! I plan to pass on many of the books and audiobooks when I'm done with them.

*facepalm* The guy checking me out at the book sale this morning recognized me from the 2005 sale. LOL It was a MADHOUSE this morning. People with handcarts. People lined out into the parking lot before opening. People pushing and shoving in a room that had to be more than 100 degrees. It was crazy... but damn fun at the same time. It's always so thrilling to see what treasures are there for you to pick out and claim.

Today's purchases (which were pretty much selfish "for me" purchases):

• A Series of Unfortunate Events- Book 1- The Bad Beginning
  
• A Series of Unfortunate Events- Book 2- The Reptile Room
  
• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (no longer must I borrow the family edition)
  
• X/1999 Manga- Prelude
  
• X/1999 Manga- Overture (Vol 2)
  
• X/1999 Manga- Sonata (Vol 3)
  
• No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty
  
• Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them by Harry Shaw
  
• Lady of the Glen by Jennifer Roberson (one of my favorite books ever. I'm going to make sure a friend has a copy and BC with it if she doesn't need this copy)
  
• The Lost World by Michael Crichton (I realized I didn't own a copy of this, though I own every other Crichton book, practically)
  
• Stargate SG-1: The Morpheus Factor by Ashley McConnell
  
• On the Ice with Wayne Gretzky by Matt Christopher
  
• The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (I already own two copies of this, but this is the edition that matches my set of old LotR books and fits in the pretty 50th aniversary box I have for them)
  
• Young Indiana Jones Chronicles- The Secret Peace (I've always wanted to read a Young Indy book)
  
• Young Indiana Jones Chronicles- Revolution! (... or two)
  
• Audiobook: The Mists of Avalon by MZB (how I could I resist this book on tape?!)
  
• Audiobook: Timeline by Michael Crichton (one of my fave MC books... I had to buy it on tape)
  
• Audiobook: Ishmael by Daniel Quin (possibly my favorite book EVER!!! I just bought a copy at the same library on Tuesday to BC with... now I get to hear it on audio! *wants desperately to know how the gorilla's voice sounds*)
  
• Audiobook: The Princess Bride by William Goldman (Read by Rob Reiner! Yay! How cool!)
  
• Audiobook: Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne (I picked it up hoping it might be the version I listened to in my childhood, over and over again. I don't remember there being multiple people, though. This is the BBC version. So it'll be amusing and enjoyable anyway)
  
• Audiobook: The Way of Art by Joseph Campbell (got this for my sister for her birthday in a month)
  
• Audiobook: Tick Tock by Dean Koontz (got this for my boss, who listens to lots of Koontz on tape/CD)
  
• CD: Evanescence- Fallen
  
• CD: Lord of the Rings Soundtrack- The Fellowship of the Rings (I'm not really into soundtracks too much any more, but for $1 hell yeah I'm going to buy it!)
  
• CD: Lord of the Rings Soundtrack- The Return of the King
  

For $25. A little pricy, but not too bad considering how many were audio books (which I'm currently addicted to lately). I looked for Hornblower and didn't see any *pout* And I looked for Star Wars books (very few). And I looked through all the painful romances for the hockey ones I'm desperate to read. But nothing. I almost bought an older (but not that old) edition of The Wizard of Oz. Maybe if it's still there on the last day I'll get it. I'm definitely going back tomorrow and Sunday (Sunday they do a "everything you can fit in a paper bag for $10" sale). I'm most excited about the X mangas, though, I think. They were "misfiled" in Sci-Fi but now, thanks to used books sales exclusively, I have 5 of them. If I keep this up, maybe I'll get them all! I really wanted to find a nice Celtic CD for my dad for Father's Day but no such luck. Maybe one was there and I overlooked it. I also restrained myself from buying things like Wicked on audiobook, when I have the book sitting right here for me to read. So $25 is a little much... but I know I'll get five times that's worth out of it all :-)

Another day, another stop at the book sale. Came home with a TON of good books even though pickings were slim:

• Twelve Dog books- various dog books, all for a BC challenge
  
• Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson- A dog book for meeeeee! I love this story (and saw his marker in Scotland when I visited!) and I can always use it for next year's Scotland challenge if I decide not to keep it (but I think I'll be keeping it)
  
• Complete Hockey Instruction by Dave Chambers- Oohhh! With plays and skills and everything. This will soooo come in handy when watching hockey and when writing Jamie-based Strokes fics
  
• On the Road by Howard Berger- An inside view of life with an NHL team- OMG how did I not see this before! *wants* *grabs* *hugs*
  
• Hockey Trivia by Don Weekes- with quizzes, games, and brain teasers- naturally I thought I'd like this *G* There's a personal note on the inside cover from someone calling herself "Hockey Momma" giving it to the "Hockey brothers" with love. Awww! Why didn't they want it any more?! *sniffles*
  
• Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamunde Pilcher- Might be a moth on the cover (damn- this week's BC challenge is a butterfly) but it'll definitely count for next year's BC Scotland challenge
  
• Summer Lovers by various authors- Has a butterfly on the cover so I'll be BCing with this
  
• Highland Groom by Hannah Howell- Again with the BC Scotland challenge
  
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco- for BCing with
  
• James Joyce- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- I have owned 3 copies of this book. I BCed with one last St.Patty's day and kept one for myself. So I can save this one for BCing with next St.Patty's day, too, and start a tradition
  
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence- I'm in love with this book. Nearly done reading it, but I only have a BC copy that I need to send on when I'm done, so i can keep this one and re-read it whenever I like!
  
• LotR: FotR by Tolkien- I should have bought these on day one so I could have a complete set (of course Legolas would be the missing one)... but I love my original set so much I will probably end up BCing with this. It's got movie-Frodo on the cover
  
• LotR: RotK by Tolkien- See above comment, only with brooding Aragorn on the cover. Will probably BC with
  
• Star Trek: Spectre by William Shatner- On day three, there were just a few ST novels left... most of which were written by Bill. *pats sympathetically* So I took pity on one and bought it. Seems like a pretty interesting plot, though
  
• The Joy of Signing by Lottie L. Riekenhof (Hardback)- For the last few days I've been thinking about trying again to learn how to sign. I know the alphabet and about 30 words on top of that but that's it. I've ALWAYS wanted to learn and I even have a 'learn how to sign' DVD on my Blockbuster queue. But I always have to take books out of the library and now I own one. Yay :-)
  
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King (Hardback)- I've been seeing the TV commercials for this for the last few days and I hadn't read it so I thought I should buy it and do so :-)
  
• Four Past Midnight by Stephen King (Hardback)- I have a small paperback copy but this was too pretty to pass up. So I'll BC with the paperback
  
• Drawing Down the Moon by Margot Adler- I've been staring at this for a few days and I told myself if it was still available today I'd by it. Clearly there aren't a lot of Pagans desperate for old reading material around here because there it was today and I bought it. Yippie!
  
• Cold Fire by Koontz (Hardback)- a graduation present for my boss' son for graduation- he collects Koontz books and I don't think he has this one
  
• The Taking by Koontz (Hardback)- See above comment
  
• The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub- Haven't read, but I adore King so I thought I might give it a shot
  
• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood- Other Atwood books are on my "want to read" list... so I thought I might try this one also
  
• Coyote by Catherine Reid- Because, well, yeah. I'm me and I think I'd like this
  
• Invitation to Camelot by various authors- I'm a sucker for anything Arthurian
  
• The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron- See above comment
  
• Star Wars by George Lucas- a novelization of the first movie, with pictures. I couldn't resist
  
• The General by C.S.Forester- Oohhh. I definitely trust the writer and look forward to this
  And the prize of my findings today... drum roll please...
  
• Mr.Midshipman Hornblower by C.S.Forester- SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
  
• Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies by C.S.Forester (large book, matching the one I already have)- DOUBLE SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who in the world would give this away?!!! LOL
  

So all that (40 books) for... $14. (I'd pay that much for one Hornblower book alone!)

So that brings my 3 day spending spree total to... (assuming I counted correctly)
73 books and 2 videos for $43 (coming out to about 57 cents per book)
Not bad! Especially as there are so many books I love so much I'd practically sleep with

*tries to get image of Remus having sex with a book (from a fic I once read) out of my head*

Good thing I've been saving up money for this event and I just got my check for Jury Duty in the mail yesterday which covers nearly all of this

Gah. Just came back from the book sale at the library. Massive amount of books. I bought a lot... but I've been saving my cash for months for this and I knew I'd buy a lot and... well... I'm happy!

• Great Book of Hockey (Hardback)- Huge, thick hardback in great condition. Published 1991 but contains TONS of oldtime hockey stuff as well as more recent things. The only hockey reference book I own is a kids book I bought from another library sale last week... but this is for adults ;-)
  
• Stunk & White Elements of Style- for my boss who didn't know what a Style Manual was *facepalm* and who desperately needs one!
  
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Sevenson (Audio Books)- I haven't read either of these but I adore Robert Louis Sevenson and I've always wanted to read both of these. So yay!
  
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Sevenson (2 copies)- For BookCrossing with
  
• Witchlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley (Audio Book)- I love MZB's works but hadn't read this one and thought it might be nice to listen to
  
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (Audio Book)- I started reading this but gave my copy away to a BookCrossing secret pal so I never finished it. So now I can!
  
• The History of the Town of Fairfax (Hardback)- I don't live in Fairfax but I work 30 seconds from it. I thought this would be a very interesting read
  
• Dog Stories- a collection of various stories... I bought this for an upcoming BookCrossing Challenge
  
• The Dog I.Q. Test- Again, for the BookCrossing challenge, but I thought this would be a lot of fun to do first. We did a simplified version of this once with my old dog and she didn't score well at all :-) But she made up for it in spades in other areas
  
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- I've always wanted to read this but never have
  
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (2 copies)- You can never have too many copies of this book! LOL No, really, I bought these to BookCross with as well
  
• Star Wars- The Hutt Gambit by A.C. Crispin- This is Volume 2 of the Han Solo Trilogy. I started reading Volume 1 a few weeks ago
  
• Star Wars- Rebel Dawn by A.C. Crispin- This is Volume 3 of the Han Solo Trilogy. I started reading Volume 1 a few weeks ago
  
• Return to Oz- It's movie-based and I'll be BookCrossing with it
  
• Choose Your Own Adventure- Planet of the Dragons- They had a few Choose Your own Adventure books there, so I only bought one. Now I have a collection of three in total :-) I just loved these as a kid
  
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini (Hardback)- I've been dying to read this book and its sequel and I thought it was fantastic fate to find a hardback version just sitting there waiting for me to love it :-) Whoohoo! Think I might start on it as soon as I'm done with the Angel book I'm reading right now
  
• British/American Language Dictionary (Passport Books)- I use two different online dictionaries when I write fics set in the UK and now I don't have to be online in order to look something up!!! Whoohoo! What really sold me on this copy was the illustration at the end explaining the proper way to flip someone off. How useful! LOL
  
• British Phrasebook (Lonely Planet)- Yes, I bought TWO British/American books but this one was tiny and sooo cute! With pictures and everything divided up into categories like brand names, household items, time/dates, education, music, food, etc. And this one has loads of cute cartoon pictures as well. I couldn't choose between the two so I bought them both.
  
• Webster's Pocket Medical & First Aid Dictionary-- Because I don't have a medical reference or first aid book and you KNOW it'll come in handy when writing (now I don't have to keep borrowing the family's)
  
• The Vision of Escaflowne Vol 1 (Manga)- I honestly haven't seen the anime but it's on my list and it's volume 1 so I couldn't resist (I passed up a couple InuYasha ones I might get if they're still there on Sat)
  
• Fantastic Four Vol 1- Awww! I just had to, you know?
  
• X/1999 Duet (Vol 6) (Manga)- Whoohoo! I bought Volume #5 a while ago at a library book sale and now I have #6. Slowly, I shall acquire them all!
  
• The Man from UNCLE- The Mad Scientist Affair- I bought a copy of this from the used bookstore a few months ago and just finished reading it a few weeks ago. It's the only Man from UNCLE book I've ever read and the only one they had there! I planned to BookCross with the first one so I can keep this one forever and ever for myself and drool over the sexy agents :-)
  
• The House at Pooh Corner- I ADORE this book and (though I listened to it on tape at LEAST 50 times as a kid) I've never owned a copy. And now I do. Whoohoo! They actually had two copies with different covers... I had a hard time choosing
  
• Why You Should Never Beam Down in a Red Shirt- Looked like a fun Star Trek Quiz Book! heehee
  
• Buffy tvs- The Watcher's Guide (Golden & Holder)- I very nearly bought this in the bookstore back when I was waiting for my copy of HP:HBP for a few hours. But I didn't have the money to throw around and OMG there it was today for $1!! So excited!
  

So... all this for $25. I was VERY pleased. I'm hoping there will still be some manga left when I stop by after work tomorrow. And/or when I pop by on Saturday (last day of the sale). There were a few books I promised myself only to buy on the last day (when everything's, like $0.50-$0.25). But I'm veeeeeeery happy now. Wish there'd been some Jedi Apprentice books but, hey, I think I did all right for myself!