Wednesdays are my book days. The end
of the month Wednesdays mean we price with a different color tag. The old tagged books from three months ago are
boxed and go to the library. Today I box
up books. I’m also bringing in two new
boxes of cookbooks.
I love working with books. I live in
a home where books line almost every wall.
“Have you read all these books,” asked a young lady yesterday. Yes I have.
Joe prices books on Tuesdays.
Wednesdays, I load up the old metal wagons and shelve them. The cookbooks are selling…slowly but
surely. Fiction sells best. The Rancho Bernardo Discovery Shop offers
book buyers a comfy overstuffed chair.
When I started, there was nowhere to sit. Now I have two folding chairs, and usually I
find them full of folks browsing.
The non-fiction is another matter.
The biographies and autobiographies always sell. I have one shelf of tiny books, they too
sell. No matter how dated, most of the
travel books sell too. Most of the
non-fiction doesn’t sell. I always end
up with a mountain of self-help volumes heading to the library. I’m thinking that they can’t sell them any
better than I.
All these books are a joy for me….even the self-help.
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- Himself: Things have been slow, but he’s happily losing weight eating his dinner at lunch time..
- Me, myself, and I: Cleared my desk of a but three things. Imagine.
- Reading: Box.
- Captain Poolie: Visited her last night and found her unwakable. UTI and kidney infection.
- Gratitude’s: That we could visit Poolie.
Looks like you have the books "covered".
ReplyDeleteI buy the biographies and autobiographies, but leave some for the next person. Unless they're too good to pass up.
ReplyDeleteA dream job.
ReplyDeleteSuch a great looking area, inviting!
ReplyDeleteDitto, dream job.
ReplyDeletePoolie, Poolie. This is so sad and painful, and inevitable for all of us. I would go crazy in your books store, maybe next time I visit you can take me there??
ReplyDeleteWe got all the really good writers in today plus one mystery I was looking for. :)
DeleteI use to be a book alcoholic. Loved the heft and feel but since I got my Kindle-I am spoiled rotten at being able to carry 300 books in one hand. I know-- I'm a traitor.
ReplyDeleteMy house is full of books, too, yet I cannot resist buying more. I borrow books from the library as well. I have dozens of out-of-date science textbooks that I used to study from and teach from. They are perfectly good books, with lovely illustrations, but apparently no one wants them. I suppose I will eventually have to recycle most of them. I have a small house and thousands of books, even after abandoning thousands when I moved from the USA to Canada. I guess I'm too sentimental about books and other objects. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteIt's a nice looking display. It looks like a nice second hand store.
ReplyDeleteEven though I read a Kindle now, I love looking at all the books on my bookshelf.
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