restless reformer

Library book sales rock.  I’m increasing my library by leaps and bounds for very, very cheap.  An amusing story to go along with this:  Sometimes I take Sophia with me to the library.  Visiting the Gates Library sale, I had all the books in a bag, and Sophia was bopping around the room and generally having a good time.  At one point, she saw me putting a book in the bag.  Apparently, she thought she’d help daddy, and when I got home, I found a copy of Dining Out in Toronto: A Complete and Critical Guide to Toronto’s Best Restaurants, and a Manual for Practically Everything Else Worth Knowing about the City.  From 1971.  So helpful.  

So, here is the massive list of books.  Total spent thus far: $26.00.  There are still more library sales to go.

• Magic Casements (1937, compiled by teachers at East High in Rochester…just a half mile down the road from me.
• The Book of Common Prayer (a pocket-sized version from 1938)
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Goethe’s Faust
• Beowulf
• Mythology by Edith Hamilton
• The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Fantasy (collection of short stories by Lewis, Tolkien, Le Guin, MacDonald, etc.) 
• The Great Short Stories of de Maupassant
• The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (a one volume collection with Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon is Down, Cannery Row, and The Pearl)
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• MacBeth by William Shakespeare
• The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales (a collection from 1954, Nelson Doubleday)
• The Republic by Plato
• Unnatural Causes by P.D. James
• The Murder Room by P.D. James
• Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
• Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
• Curtain and The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White
• Picture This by Joseph Heller
• Merlin by Stephen R. Lawhead (made a serious error here; I had the first book in the series, “Arthur,” in the bag, but I must have forgotten to put it back in when I reviewed by books before buying.)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
• The Magic World by Edith Nesbit
• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
• The Twist by Roald Dahl
• George’s Marvelous Medecine by Roald Dahl
• The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley ed. by John Shields
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• Esio Trout by Roald Dahl
• The Young Unicorns by Madeleine L’Engle
• Dragons in the Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux
• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
• The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones
• Worship as Pastoral Care by William Willimon