The Post With The Most (Books)

So this week brought a windfall of books.  I first got my BookSwim package with 3 of my book pool selections, and then I got four books from my writing buddy, Susan, and then yesterday I attended the Richmond Friends of the Library Book Sale and got a ridiculous amount of bookage.

Here's the list:
BookSwim: 

• The End of Alice by A.M. Holmes (I've been wanting to read this book for months and months!)
• Need by Carrie Jones
• Peeps by Scott Westerfield

Friend:

• Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
• Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
• Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs
• Atmospher by Michael Laimo (I hope his last name is pronounced like Lame-O because that is awesome)

Library Sale:

• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (feeling a bit nostalgic since seeing the preview for Beezus and Ramona movie)
• Death Dines at 8:30 by various mystery authors (it comes with recipes!)
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (completing the holy trinity of book ownership, I now have it on audio, Kindle and paperback)
• Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
• The Third Eye by Lois Duncan (loved this book when I was a teen and have been wanting to re-read for awhile!)
• Murder on the Prowl by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown
• The Wish by Gail Carson Levine
• What's a Ghoul To Do? by Victoria Laurie
• All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell
• The Mushroom Man by Sophie Powell (the cover sold me on this one)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a play by Tom Stoppard
• Post Grad (audio book) by Emily Cassel
• Heart and Soul (audio book) by Maeve Binchy (I loved this book and can't wait to listen to it!)
• The Kite Runner (audio book) by Khaled Hosseini

I also found a little book journal called Smart Women Read Between the Lines.  The very first page was partially filled out by the previous owner, so now I have to read Last Night At The Lobster by Stewart O'Nan.  I downloaded the sample of it on my Kindle last night and I liked what I read.  I had never heard of the book before and honestly it's not something I would normally read, but I feel compelled to finish that first entry by whoever owned the journal before me.  It's like finding a great book at your vacation rental, it's fate!  

I have no idea when I'll get to all these books, I'm still finishing up Middlesex and doing The Stand read-a-long, but there's no high quite like that of buying new used books.