Your Christmas needs some Motorcycles & Sweetgrass!

Today over at Advent Book Blog (the splendid online love child of bookish masterminds Sean Cranbury and Julie Wilson), I’m strongly suggesting you buy Drew Hayden Taylor’s charming, funny, and all-around wonderful Motorcycles & Sweetgrass for someone on your holiday gift list (even if that someone is you. In fact, that’s encouraged, too!). Head on over and check it out. But browser beware, the stellar recos there will be sure to send you to the store even if your Christmas list is long taken care of.

Ladies and Gentleman...It's Yard Sale Season.

There are few things that get me as excited of books, but one thing that routinely does is DEALS! And when those two things collide, well, it’s really amazing my head hasn’t exploded yet. The advent of spring means yard sale season has started, and I kicked it off with a visit to a local church sale (which for book lovers on a budget, it one of the best places to score some cheap finds). Garage sales in general are great, and you should never have to pay more than $1 for a paperback (though of course I buy books from all sorts of places. These sales just let me buy MORE!). Here’s the rationale behind these particular finds:

Naked by David Sedaris: Funny guy. I already own Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, so this was a no-brainer.

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy: Probably my favourite book of all time. Yep, I said it. When I see books I love at sales like this, I tend to scoop them up so I can thrust them upon others. This one got swapped at the last KIRBC meeting.

More fantastic finds

Are you sick of these yet? I hope not, cause it’s good fun to share newest finds, and it’s nice to demonstrate the kind of good stuff you can get if you look for it. This batch came courtesy of the Bookends Sale at the Toronto Reference Library. I’m a huge fan of Bookends (the regular store) for its rock bottom prices, so I thought I’d give their annual sale a try. The sale didn’t disappoint, though it was more like a mini Victoria College sale (which is this weekend, along with Word on the Street in Toronto!), with great offerings at slightly than usual prices.  Though my numbers won’t be as impressive as they usually are, I was willing to shell out a bit more for good books in support of the library. And here we go again:

(Clockwise from the top left):

Long Story Short, by Elyse Friedman: Anansi makes beautiful books, and since I may be coming round to short stories, I thought, why not?

Man of My Dreams, by Curtis Sittenfeld: I was shopping with my friend Reeder (check out her finds here), and Prep (see below) is her favourite book. So I figured I’d [...]

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