Books!

Scored big today at the Washington Co. Friends of the Library sale. Got about 30 books for $17.75. Some of the haul includes bios about Red Skelton, Ingrid Bergman, Dorothy Kilgallen, Ed McMahon, Louis Jolliet (the guy who explored the midwestern rivers), Mariette Hartley, Paul Harvey, the "A Beautiful Mind" guy (don't have the book in front of me to get his name), a book of short stories by Laura Ingles Wilder (some unpublished previously), and "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," not really a bio, I guess, but close enough. There's a photo book of Ireland, plus coffee-table type history books on Ireland and Gr. Britain. Novel "Beau Geste". A few kid's books for DGD, including "Black Beauty." An annotated book on some famous paintings. A Star Trek paperback, a Victoria Holt paperback that I don't THINK I've read before, a "tween" book about a student nurse, which I'll read and then pass on to DGD in a few years. Also "The Delaware Colony" about the settling of Delaware, "Unlocking Secrets of the Unknown", a Nat'l Geo. book about exploring some areas of the earth that little is known about, "Sherlock Holmes and the Thistle of Scotland," which is not by A. C. Doyle, but one of the present day (well, 1989) Holmes authors. Also "House Broken" by Richard Karn (Al on Hometime) about his house remodeling, "Rashi's Daughter" about Jews in Medieval France, and a three-in-one by M.M. Kaye, "Death in Kenya," "Death in Zanzibar," and "Death in Cyprus." I think I may have read "D in Cyprus" before, but it's been awhile. There's one called "An Anthropologist on Mars" written by a neurologist about some of his patients' cases. And DH got one about an expose' of the NRA. I'm not sure he realizes it's an expose', since he's pro-guns.

DD has already grabbed "A Beautiful Mind" to read. She's seen the movie; I haven't. And since we're from the area about 10 miles (if that) southwest of Princeton, a lot of things should be familiar.

Didn't find any spinning or weaving books at this sale, but I'm not surprised. When spinners and weavers get rid of books, they tend to give/sell them to fellow spinners/weavers.

And I have to find a place for most of these books pronto. The Greene Co. Library sale is in three weeks and I usually find at least a dozen books at it. I have a LOT of reading to do.