Book Haul, April 2k18

The time has come around again for my local library book sale, the place of 50¢ paperbacks and $1 hardbacks. It's a wonderful thing. I've gone three times so far - they put out new books every day of the sale, so it's worth going back a few times. 

1. The Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud

2. Being Mortal and Better by Atul Gawande
I prefer How We Die, but Being Mortal is good, and SO wanted them. It's a good thing I went back, because I didn't find these until round three.

3. [name redacted] terrible fantasy novel, for K. [1]

4. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
We slowly acquire our favorite series from this book sale, so we end up with random purchases like this and the two following.

5. The Woman Who Died A Lot by Jasper Fforde

6. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

7. Freakonomics (revised and expanded) by Levitt and Dubner

8. An Economist Gets Lunch by Tyler Cowen 
SO and I both enjoyed his article "Six Rules for Dining Out", so when I spotted this one I thought, Why not? It's only a dollar. Plus, it'll make a nice addition to our "orange books" section. [2] 

9. In a Different Key by Donvan and Zucker

10. The Science Book by National Geographic

and finally, these: 

...because I have a weakness for reference books, languages, and tiny things. 

I may go back yet again, searching for Chamber of Secrets [3] and any Terry Pratchett. (Discworld is remarkably hard to find used).

xo, 
Devo

[1] It's tradition. 

[2] What is the orange book section you ask? Some people organize their shelves by author, or title, or height, or decimal system. Ours are vaguely arranged by subject, but very idiosyncratically - such that we have a section of orange books, some of which are not actually orange. A lot of pop economics and like, life-hack-y books tend to have orange or yellow covers (see, e.g. Think Like a Freak), hence, orange section.

[3] It's the only Harry Potter we're missing, except #5. Which we are not even bothering with.