Chris at Stuff As Dreams Are Made On, (my adopted son!) likes to play the blame game… well this one is for HIM! I blame ever one of the 4 books below on Chris! Yup all Four! ‘Cause he was the one to open his mouth about the good sale over at BookCloseOuts! ppplllsssstttttttttttttt!!!!!
So lessee… what do we have here? A book on Cary Grant! (something I wouldn’t have splurged for had it not been a dang cheap price!!) called Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style. Sheesh, everything Cary Grant did had style!! This book is like a table top book! A bit larger in size and with the very shiny paper inside. (and lots of pictures!!)
Next is Hide and Seek with Angels: a life of J.M. Barrie of Peter Pan fame. Not the nicest of people but very interesting how he pushed himself into the lives of others. I became interested in his story after reading Neverland by Piers Dudgeon.
Then there is : We Bought a Zoo. This is a true story that I thought about getting at one point then changed my mind and then changed it again! .. obviously.
Last but not least is Tamsin! Finally! I have wanted this one a long time but just never got it.. Tamsin is a double blame on Chris.. one for the Bookcloseout sale and the other for enjoying it so much when he wrote a review long ago.
So.. now we look below at yet mooorrreee books! (help me! help me!*) These I will blame on Carl! Yeah! Carl made me do it! He’s to blame for addicting me to book buying!!! So ..Carl is to blame!
These I got at a used book store..
The hardback Biography of Dickens ,by Fred Kaplan, was the most expensive. at 3.00 (and like new) over 600 pages of Dickens life… *oh boy, dunno when I will get to that one!*. Amazon sells the paperback for 23.00!! (wow! I did good!)
Then I thought I’d try something new the book called The Forest, by Edward Rutherfurd, (I have a “thing” about trees and forests and my own weak attempt at writing occurs in Kesterwood Forest).. Anyway I hear it is a historical book about the New Forest in England, it is yet another 600 pg book!
Then I found an autobiography of Sid Caesar, called Where Have I Been? which I grabbed up for when I feel like I celebrity biography. (.50 cents)
Stephen Kings book, The Dark Tower… (now, mind you I have not read a single Stephen King book). I am not sure what made me pick up this book but when I flipped thru it there were some paintings by Michael Moorcock!… so for .50 cents, it came home with me.
And lastly a true story of a cowboy that adopts a baby elephant. (The Cowboy and His Elephant:the story of a remarkable friendship) Sometimes I just feel like something different… so that would be it.
There you have it! I can’t remember ever having so many books at one time! I left the house today and went to a thrift shop and a used books store, spent 6.00 and came home with 5 books! When I got home the mailman had just left and there sat the box of books from BookCloseOuts! arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Now the real trouble begins… where to put them!!!
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