Extreme Used Book Sale

My friend NerdyApple and I went to the Friends of the Johnson County Library used book sale yesterday morning. It was the biggest, craziest used book sale I’ve ever been to. It’s being held in a mostly abandoned shopping mall. There were tables of books in four long hallways and filling up two storefronts. They had boxes of books under all the tables and as soon as people grabbed a book off the table to buy, a worker would fill a space with another book from one of the boxes. I saw people shopping the book sale with baskets, suitcases, and shopping carts they had borrowed from Sears. I saw a little old lady with two foot stack of books balanced on her walker. Most books were only one dollar and small mass-market paperbacks were only fifty cents so it was easy to just grab whatever looked vaguely appealing.

It runs through Saturday afternoon – if you’re in the area I highly recommend stopping by. Plan on spending some time there though. I was there for two hours and didn’t even get to look at half of what they had. Crazy! I found a few books to purchase in the time I spent there:

Have you read any of these? How’d I do? (I’ve already read the Jen Lancaster books but didn’t have my own copies of them.) I can’t believe I got a hardback copy of The Passage in perfect condition for only a dollar!

Any time I get the camera out, the boys become little hams and beg to have their picture taken so I’ll throw in a picture of them defending my new books from The Dark Side: