Weeeee! Boooooooks!

[jujuberry136]

I am a bibliofile. I love books, I love reading, I love the smell of bookstores. But sadly, in the two years I've lived here I hadn't found a good used bookstores within the city limits. Boo hiss.

Luckily, a high school/college friend (we became friends in high school and went to the same college - he actually convinced me to go to the college I

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[faithburke]

Used bookstores are the most awesome thing ever! Especially the clearance sections in the used bookstores. I picked up this awesome book on how mummies were created a few weeks ago.

[jujuberry136]

Yes they are!

If you like awesome popular science-type books, have you read any of Mary Roach's books? She's written three really awesome books (Stiff, Bonk, and Packing for Mars) that you might enjoy as well

[faithburke]

I like pretty much everything, honestly, and I just put those on hold at my local library. I also picked up a copy of Pride and Prejudice to replace the one from college that was falling apart and some books on CD for long car trips.

[ambrosia4all]

So this is really late, but is the person who showed you these stores the person I'm thinking of? Cradle will rock man?

And there's nothing wrong with replacing college books... I still have all of mine, so I don't need to replace them... I love Spook Country, William Gibson is tres awesome, no?

[jujuberry136]

Who else?

I only had so many boxes I could send home, so sadly I had to sell a lot of my books. At the time I thought I could handle it emotionally, now I know differently...

William Gibson is always awesome.