Shopping spree

I spent all yesterday afternoon at Pages For All Ages bookstore spending a gift card worth $524.85. This windfall represents our takings from the store's Community Book Fair held last fall. We are deeply indebted to the generous families and friends who designated our library to receive 15% of the value of their purchases during the Fair. And because of the nice discount Pages gives to libraries and schools, our $524 actually bought $697 worth of books!

I used this opportunity to pick up a lot of fun stuff - the kind of things our hard-working students can relax with. I also went armed with a list of requests generated by members of RifRaf (our book club) and the Manga club. So my pile 'o books is an eclectic mix of interesting things -- everything from White Teeth by Zadie Smith and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer to The Princess Diaries, Fox Trot, Zits, David Sedaris, and Terry Pratchett.

Now we get to catalog all these lovelies using our new scheme.

Postscript: I am also indebted to strongwomen Michelle G. and Sam N. for hauling the books from my car to the library. Josh C. "supervised."