Mailbox Monday – 25Apr16
I got books from all over last week: one win, one purchase new, one from the bring-some-take-some fundraiser at my dentist’s office, two library loans, two library sale items, and two from the bring-some-take-some fundraiser at our village post office. In total, I spent $7.00 on the used books.
The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons Came Home, both by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers are two delightful children’s picture books. I’d recommend them for ages 4-8. I borrowed these from my library.
Secret Paris by Zoe de Las Cases is a beautiful adult colouring book I bought from Amazon. It was strictly a cost-saving measure since I needed $10 to bring my order of a new ironing board cover to the free shipping level. Hey – why pay good money on shipping when we can pay the same $10 and get a book?
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Ann Morgan’s Beside Myself is a win from Bloomsburg Publishing via a TLC Book Tour post by Kelly of The Well-Read Redhead. I haven’t started this yet but it promises a whole lot of suspense.
From the boxes at my dentist’s office where the fundraiser benefits local hockey activities, I picked up a classic “dime novel”: Murder Racquet, edited by Alfred Hitchcock. I’m a sucker for Hitchcock mystery pulps, and those published under the auspices of ‘Ellery Queen’.
From the small sale table at the library, I bought The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, and Caro Peacock’s Foreign Affair:, which seems to be the first in the “Liberty Lane” series.
The former is meant for fans of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and the latter is set in 1837 when “Queen Victoria, barely eighteen, has just ascended to the throne”. The promise of a young Queen Victoria sold me on this book. These two books were .50 cents each.
The sale “table” at our post office has grown over time and actually occupies a couple of bookcases as well as the table and windowsills. The books there are gems but the prices are the highest of any the places I obtained books last week.
I spent $3 on Accordian Crimes by E. Annie Proulx. I read this story that follows the life of a “little green accordian” through a century of American history, about 20 years ago and have been wanting to reread it.
M.L. Stedman’s The Light Between Oceans needs no introduction and has been on my TBR list for a while now. It cost $2
Do any of these interest you? What was your favourite book acquisition this week?
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I’d say $2 and $3 are still pretty great prices for books! I never feel too badly if I end up not finishing a book if I was able to find it so inexpensively. I loved The Light Betweens Oceans!
Lisa, you’re right, the prices are still fabulous. 🙂
I love the fundraisers in your community! The Light Between Oceans is outstanding!
The fundraisers are all over the place, Kathy. And different types of books in each location: something for everybody. I have The Light Between Oceans on my reading stack for July. I’m going to try for a beach/ocean theme to my reading that month. 😉
I thought I was the only who added ‘extras’ to my amazon account for free shipping, lol! The Light Between Oceans is great. Enjoy all the new books.
We’re going to pay the money either way, Joann, right? lol
I’m looking forward to reading The Light Between Oceans this summer. So many people have said how good it is!
My daughter liked the first crayon book, but we haven’t gotten the second one yet. Happy reading
Serena, I thought the second crayon book would be a let-down but it wasn’t really. I really like them both!
You found some great buys! I bought the first crayon book but my granddaughters are a tad young for it right now. It’s on the shelf 🙂
I was surprised, Mary, when we read the crayon books to our grandsons that the almost-eight-year-old didn’t think it was too babyish at all. He loved it!
You did get a lot of books from many different places!
I think my favorite book from last week is still The Invisible Library!
I love the title of THE LITTLE OLD LADY WHO BROKE ALL THE RULES. 🙂
I still haven’t read THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS.
Have a wonderful reading week.
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Mailbox Monday
Lots of books here from interesting sources, like your dentist office. I like the sound of the Drew Daywalt books. I don’t think I will know my favorite acquisition until I read them. 🙂
I hope you have a great week.
The Day the Crayons Came Home is one of my daughter’s favorite books!
Happy Reading!
Beside Myself is amazing and wonderful while also being dark. I reviewed it on my blog: http://keepthewisdom.blogspot.com/2016/03/beside-myself.html. I hope you are as impressed by it as I was.
I have the Secret Paris coloring book, too. It’s lovely! I hope you enjoy it, as well as your reading books (also, I totally agree that it is much more fun to buy an extra book than pay for shipping 🙂 )
I wish we had sale tables like what you have. Never seen anything like it not even in Melbourne where I currently am
Those were some great deals on books. We have library sales here but I’ve never seen books at the dentist or post office.