reading list!

So I've been pretty proud of my progress in terms of actually reading things this summer. I've finished a few books since summer started and I'm almost done with Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

I guess it's no wonder that when I had some time yesterday between getting out of work and dinner at Zach and Jane's I headed over to Schuler's Books to browse their fantastic used book section. I walked out with 6.

I bought:

--a one-volume copy of Lord of the Rings ($8!)
--a like-new copy of The World is Flat ($8!!) My brother had lent me this book and I never got around to reading it though he told me it was great. So I bought my own and now I can return his :)
--a world literature reference book (75 cents!) which should be handy because it gives an overview of the great works of lit, terms, and a brief overview of each era :)
--Fit to be Tied ($4) so that I can lend it out without losing my beloved copy that has my dad's handwriting in it :D
--Annie Dillard's American Childhood ($7)
--Love poems by Donne and Herrick ($6) because we read them in BritLit and I love those guys ;) and I needed to round out my purchases, haha...

So I got my fiction, my current events, my reference, my inspirational, my quality read and my poetry all for about $35.

If that weren't enough (which of course, it wasn't) I went to Barnes and Noble down the street after I hung out with my cousins/siblings! There, I was able to buy a few books and I actually had a gift card, so I only had to pay $4 out of pocket.

--World of our Fathers, which is about Jewish people ($1, figured I'd get my history in here, too)
--a Jewish prayer book (it looked fascinating)
--A lesson before Dying (a book I read in high school and LOVED it, very good)
--a rhyming dictionary (because it was $1 and I've always wanted one!)
--Christ and Culture, because it was cheap and I know all my teachers/profs reference it at one point or another because it's so Ref doc :)

So yeah. I definitely need to spend a liiiiiiittle more money and get me another bookshelf!!!

:)

Bets