BEA Planning, Author Sighting, Knitting & Book Sale Loot: Not Really a Mailbox Monday Post (April 26)

This past weekend, I went a little crazy at a local library sale: I picked up a total of 21 books for $28 (including a few not mentioned below as they were for other people). Here are their covers:

The books are:

1. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
2. Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood edited by Cori Howard
3. Folly by Laurie R. King
4. No One You Know by Michelle Richmond (read my review)
   
5. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
6. Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards
7. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
8. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas
9. Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara
10. The Candy Factory by Sylvia Fraser (not pictured)
    
11. The Kiss Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer
12. The Saturday Morning Murder by Batya Gur
13. The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart
14. The Wise Wound: Myths, Realities, and Meanings of Menstruation by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove
15. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
16. Watching the Roses by Adèle Geras
17. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela by Jane Christmas
18. Wild and Woolly: A Journal Keeper’s Handbook by Alfred DePew
19. Yoga and the Quest for the True Self by Stephen Cope

I’m also pretty sure I spotted Jo Walton at the sale. (I read and reviewed her novel Farthing in 2008.) She was with a bunch of folk, so I was too shy to approach her (plus I wasn’t 100% sure it was her!).

I also went to Value Village last week and picked up Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female edited by Willa Shalit as well as a friend for Cairo...

Cairo with her new friend (click to enlarge)

Finally, the weekend before last, Cindy (Cindy’s Love of Books), Linda (Better with Books), Tina (Bookshipper) and I met for the last time before we go to BEA together next month. (Donna [BookBound] unfortunately couldn’t make it.) I’ve finally gotten my passport and bought my train tickets, so this is really happening!

Tina passed on one book to me: Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously by Adrienne Martini.

All of us (except Tina) brought in our knitting projects. I just finished mine the night before last (it’s a cotton washcloth knit mostly in seed stitch), and I’m trying not to mind too much that one side is obviously a lot looser than the other!

Click to enlarge

What did you find in your mailbox this past week? For other Mailbox Monday posts, head over to Marcia’s blog, The Printed Page.