Great book deals

Alright, now I already know I'm a bibliophile, and that if I find a book in a store that looks interesting, I'll probably buy it if I have the money. Well, the Bookstar (Barnes & Noble) in the Costa Verde shopping center had an awesome deal a few days ago: 3 books for $10. Granted, you couldn't choose any book in the store, but the classics they offered seemed to be good deals:

• The Histories by Herodotus
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
• Aesop's Fables

They're all a part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics" series, and altho' the binding isn't top-notch, they're typical of many hardbacks you get anyway (glued not sewn, for those who care about book-binding). Anyway, I was beaming when I walked out of the store that day. Fast forward to this last Thursday, when I was helping a friend with some Latin. We ended up in Bookstar for a few minutes, and on the way out I remembered the great deals and was going to show my friend. However, the table that all the books were on wasn't there anymore! But nearby there was another table with a few books on it which were only $1: that's right, $1! These were "Barnes & Noble Classics" books too, but some were different titles that I hadn't seen a few days before. So in short, I couldn't help but see three more books that I liked:

• Grimm's Fairy Tales
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Soul of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

And when I got to the register, there were three more books there that someone decided they didn't want (and, fortunately, I did!):

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Paradise Lost by John Milton

So now I have twelve more books to read, practically all of which I have wanted to read all the way through for some time now. It was worth the 25 bones. :-D

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