20 days later...

Hello everyone. Sorry for not posting for the past nearly 3 weeks. Unfortunately my computer was stolen so I really haven't had a chance to use the Internet much. Luckily I will have a new laptop next week and will be posting a lot more frequently.

Besides MSU beating U of M (finally) this past weekend and my laptop being stolen... not much has happened to me worth sharing.

That's why I was super excited last week when we were told in class about the used book sale going on at East Lansing Public Library Saturday and Sunday. I was so excited to go. I told my mom, my boyfriend, and friends all about it. I went on Sunday, which was fill a bag for $3.00 and when I saw the huge line of cars, I knew the sale must be pretty big. I was most excited to look in the children's section, see what books were available, why they were being sold, and what hadn't been picked up already.

I'm sad to report, there was the WORST selection of kids books you could ever imagine. I'm not sure if alll the books were taken the day before, but man...there was about 50 books (out of like the 1000 that were there) to chose from. About 30 of the were Sweet Valley High books (sorry Deb I know you loved those) but that is not what I had anticipated the "children's books" section would look like.

I bought three children's books..... two on slavery (which were really random compared to the "sweet valley high" and i cant even remember what else they offered)- One was about the escape of Harriet Tubman, and it was very interested to look at because it was written in 1965. The language was very different from what you would see in a book today, and the pictures were very interesting as well. (I'll bring the book on Wednesday). Another book was a "fun facts and games" book on the "40 presidents" haha (I'm laughing because we are about to vote on the 44th president). I am obsessed with presidential history and thought it would be very interesting to see what type of information they included on the presidents in a kids book written in 1981 (Reagan had just taken office). Tidbits such as which president was the most handsom, fattest, oldest, and shortest all were included.

Although the children's selection was horrible, if you are a murder mystery type person like myself, this was the place to be. I bought so many books by numerous fantastic authors including: Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson, Iris Johansen and James Grippando.

What I found most interested about the entire experience was the amount of foreign books they had available. There was an entire table of books (many of them children's books, but other books as well) that looked to be written in some type of Asian language. I almost bought one, but I had a few people looking at me really weird when I was looking at them so I just decided not to. But I did look through a few books and some of the characters (animated) were very frightening looking to be in children's books.

Overall a rewarding experience, I was just very disappointed with the children's selection