A Day In My Life, Adventures of a Bookworm

Adventures of a Bookworm: The BIG Book Sale.

The annual big book sale has ended! I found so many great gems there. I ended up getting 23 books for only $45 bucks.

 

When I was younger, I used to go to Barnes and Noble every week my parents got paid and get a new book. Now that I’m older, I rarely go to traditional book stores. I actually haven’t been to a normal book store since high school, so some years.

 

Now, I frequent book sales where they sell used books for really cheap. Plus, you find rare gems that you can’t find in a book store. And, a lot of the time some of the books are brand new books, but you still get them for that dirt cheap price.

 

I also love the treasures you sometimes find in the books. I didn’t find any money or anything this time, but I found an old bus ticket from years ago in one of them.

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The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library group does a big book sale every year.

 

Hardcover books are $3, Paperback are $2, Children/Teen books are $1 and Media is $1. Then on the last day, everything is dropped to ONE DOLLAR!

 

This was my first year going to the big book sale. I usually go to their dollar book sale they used to have every second Saturday in the Mission, but I had free time Friday and decided to check this book sale out.

 

The big book sale was held for a week at the Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion.

 

I rode the 43 all the way from my university to the book sale.

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I walked up to this large warehouse building, sitting right on the water by the Golden Gate Bridge, and was greeted by a woman at the door and given a map.

 

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I was like a map? Wow. I looked around and saw why they had maps and shopping carts. It was HUGE. So many books. When they said Big Book Sale, they meant it wholeheartedly.

 

I sometimes get overwhelmed when I see a plethora of something, but seeing all of the tables of books brought me pure bliss. I was in heaven.

 

There were so many different books: children’s books, teen books, young adult books, essays, teaching books, textbooks, test books, cooking books, diet books, fiction books, non-fiction books, business books, religious books, cultural books, poetry books, hobby books, game books, science fiction books, autobiographies, and MUCH MORE.

 

I was shocked at how many Twilight books the teen section had. I already have the whole series though, so I didn’t buy any. I wish I didn’t have the series though, because I could have gotten each hardcover, brand new looking, book from the series for only a dollar each.

 

One of my favorite finds was the Adventures in Microwave Cooking cookbook because now I can experiment with microwave cooking more. Ha. I try to cook whatever I can in the microwave.

 

I spent two hours in there looking through a few tables of books. My budget was $40. If I had a bigger budget I would’ve been in there even longer. Haha.

 

I went over my budget by five dollars, and my goal was to put some back to meet my budget but i just could not part with any! I was going to get rid of What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen because it was a hardcover book, so it would have been three. But children and teen books were a dollar, so I had to get it. I was glad it was a dollar because I kept passing by it staring at its shiny new-ness.

 

I ended up finding so many classics and books I love but never got. Every time I picked a great one up I got a little giddy inside, and outside with smiles and laughs a little. Haha.

 

I then went to the register to pay. The volunteer cashier was nice. He told me all of the ones I found that he read like Ulysses, Tar Baby, and many of the others.

 

I stuffed the books into my backpack, and those that didn’t fit got put into a paper bag he gave me for free.

 

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I’m already ready for the 2017 Big Book Sale. I may even volunteer. I just love books and being around books and around others that love books.

 

A LIST OF THE BOOKS I FOUND:

1. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James -$2

2. The Color Purple by Alice Walker- $2

3. Adventures in Microwave Cooking (Cookbook) by Montgomery Ward-$3

4. Ulysses by James Joyce-$2

5. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne-$2

6. What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen-$1

7. Looking for Alaska by John Green-$1

8. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison-$2

9. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald-$2

10. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden-$2

11. Beloved by Toni Morrison-$2

12. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston- $2

13. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad-$2

14. Lord of the Flies by William Golding-$2

15. Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin-$2

16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey-$2

17. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway-$2

18. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain-$2

19. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski-$2

20. The House by the Medlar Tree by Giovanni Verga-$2

21.The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan-$2

22. Animal Farm by George Orwell

23. The Imperialist by Sara Jeanette Duncan-$2

 

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P.S. All of these are my pictures I took with my phone.

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8 thoughts on “Adventures of a Bookworm: The BIG Book Sale.”

    1. Yeah. The dollar book sale is monthly, then there’s the big book sale that is HUGE that happens twice a year–in the Fall and Spring. They’re definitely some of my favorite events in the event-filled city. Haha.

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