Musing Mondays (May 3)

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the war books

Do you frequent second hand book stores? Have you ever bought a book home only to find anything interesting within their pages?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.

 

I’ll confess, I’m asking this question, purely so I can share this story. It made my week and I just wanted to tell you all.

About a year ago, a friend and I went into the city and did the Town Hall book shops – Kinokuniya, Galaxy Books, Kings Comics, and Elizabeth’s Bookshop. It was a great day and I was very happy to come home with my little pile of finds. Among them was a copy of Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things which I’ve been reading on and off ever since (I like to make short stories last).

This week, I was flipping through it trying to find something for my brother when I found … this:

Left Behind

Absolutely the best second-hand book find ever! Especially since I only paid $10 for the book in the first place!

17 comments :

gautami tripathy said...

Great question!

Musings/Whereabouts

Yvonne said...

Mine is here

Ladytink_534 said...

What a great find!

Here's my musing:
http://ladytinksblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/musing-monday-in-books.html

Nise' said...

Awesome, would love to find that kind of paper in a book!

My Musing

Dana said...

I've never been that lucky with a used book! Though of course, now when I get home I'm going to have to flip through every used book I just bought but haven't read yet!

You can find my answer on my blog,
Reading Amidst the Chaos.

Marie Cloutier said...

what a great find! here's mine: http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/05/musing-mondays-used-bookstores-used.html

sadie607 said...

Your find is way more exciting than mine.

Here's my entry http://somanybooks123.blogspot.com/2010/05/musing-mondays-second-hand-book-stores.html

Emily said...

I definitely like your find better...

here's mine:
http://theninjalibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/05/musing-mondays-6.html

Anonymous said...

Mine

http://vampira2468.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/second-chance-blood/

fredamans said...

Here is my musing; http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/2010/05/musing-second-hand-books.html

Anonymous said...

Good question!

HERE

cindysloveofbooks said...

Wow that is a great find.

This is my first time taking part:

You can read mine here

Carina said...

Fantastic find! My post is here.

Anonymous said...

I love thrift stores!!!

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caite said...

Used books, cheap used books, are a terrible temptation... ;-)

Here is MY POST this week.

Rebecca Chapman said...

I only buy second hand books pretty much. My favourite second hand book shops are the one;s on King Street in Newtown. Elizabeths and Books on King. Gould's is good too, except that I find that there are so many books there and the aisles are so narrow that it's a bit off putting. Basement Books under Central is pretty good too.

Jenny Girl said...

I love second hand book stores. Unfortunately, one used book I recently picked up had some woman's naked picture in it. I shredded it, but she is lucky I am not a crazy person who posts crap on the Internet. And it was a Heyer book, of all things. Certainly not dirty enough for a nudie pic :)

Congrats on your found money.