What better way to celebrate Australia Day than going to a book sale? Especially one you have to drive 45 minutes to get to in order to snag some free books. One of the Newcastle Libraries were giving away their discarded stock so naturally I was there when doors opened to grab up a bundle of books I certainly don’t have room for and yet inevitably needed to have because of reasons.
It was the typical book sale madness, people crowding at unopened doors because…not sure why. To get in first? To get in a few seconds before anyone else? It’s always the same, at every sale. After the doors did open and people rushed on in, I did the rounds. One thing I like about good book sales is they have things in happy categories. And with library book sales there’s different ones. Instead of breaking things into biographies, sport, cooking etc, everything is in the non fiction pile, and all large print is in the large print pile, and therefore can quickly ignore two sections and focus on the fiction, YA, and children’s. I didn’t get any children’s books this time, being a library sale discarded children books aren’t generally going to be the popular or well known ones. But I did manage to score some great YA books which I was surprised to find in there. I get excited about finding great books in book sales, but then I get sad that it was being discarded because it’s such a great book.
Despite the mini madness happening with boxes and books and people everywhere, I managed to get in and out within 30 minutes, and managed to score 14 books in the process. I am quite excited by what I got, a lot I haven’t read before and have wanted to read for ages so while I have no room to put them anywhere, I am glad I have them and can’t wait to read them.
The latest additions to my collection:
A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
The ZigZag Effect by Lili Wilkinson
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
Educating Simon by Robin Reardon
The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
Lost in a Good Book 