Book buying

I generally buy my books second hand.

Since I've given up my DVD habit I've taken to collecting old favourites from when I was at school and other random things. It's meant that my book collection has grown fairly substantially lately and my collection is now a motley crew of young adult fiction, series books (mostly fantasy), chick-lit, literature and then a few randoms thrown in.

Today I went down to the Sallies. They sell their books for 50 cents each, which always makes me feel like I've ripped them off - especially when I come away with 10 or so books, all excellent.

Today I came home with...

• A Book of Narrative Verse - containing Chaucer, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth. Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Rober Louis Stevenson, Kipling and many others besides.
• Girl Guiding by Lord Baen-Powell - this is the Girl Guides manual. God knows what happened to mine but I'm pretty wrapt I could pick it up!
• Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding - same author as Bridget Jones so I figured it was worth a go.
• Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells - same author as Ya-Ya Sisterhood and the first page looked enticing.
• The Spin by Anonymous- this is a 'novel of New Zealand Politics', so clearly I couldn't leave that on the shelves!
• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh - this was my favourite book as a kid and it's the exact same edition that I owned.
• A Walk to Remember by Nicolas Sparks - I love the movie, I can't wait to read the book.
• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume - An adult novel by Judy Blume, I couldn't resist.

All in all I think I'm going to have to raid the Sallies more often because there were some real gems in there and the price is pretty unbeatable!

Yay, new books!