Recent Book Hauls

I just got the sad word that the used bookstore in nearby Gilroy, CA has lost its lease and will have to vacate soon (I'm not sure when). I was last at the store on the last Sunday in March, and had no idea until I saw something about this on Facebook earlier this past week. The cat from the bookstore now needs to find a new home. This was so sad. I loved going to this store! And the cat was so sweet! 

On what will probably the last time I ever got to visit the store (again, I don't know exactly when they are closing), I went looking for one of the books on this list. This is one of the prompts this year on this challenge. I wrote down the titles upon first glancing at the list, since it's a click list (and I didn't want to have click through it more than once). A lot of the books on the list I have already read, and others are hard to find, including Dune (still haven't found any used copies of that one). And there  are some books listed that I have never heard of. I ended up finding and buying this book from the list (I also got Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat and The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton that some day).

And our county  library's monthly book sale returned yesterday after a winter break. I was amazed how much stuff I found at this one! More than I would have expected. 

• No Wind of Blame--Georgette Heyer
• Stories by Katherine Mansfield
• Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio--Pu Songling
• The Pilgrim's Progress--John Bunyan
• The Odd Women--George Gissing
• Smoke and Mirrors--K.D. Halbrook
• The Education of Margot Sanchez--Lilliam Rivera
• Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac--Gabrielle Zevin

I could not believe how many I found! Mostly stuff I have never heard of!