For those of you who have been reading this blog since I started last fall, you’ll probably remember how many books I collected during the local library sale. Well, the time has come again and I’ve been busy picking out some amazing reads.
First and foremost, I was able to get nearly one hundred comics for my son. Some of you may suffer through trying to get your children to read, like I do. This is my way of trying to motivate him to take his time and spend some of it doing something that I love. I want nothing more to connect with my son and if I have to do it with comics, than I have to do it that way.
Now I know this probably doesn’t look like a ton of books, but, these are just the stacks of books. I haven’t even made it a point to count how many I got. But I will say, I’m happy because I was able to find some really great books. Some are children’s books and some are just random ones that caught my eye. Here’s what I was able to find:
- Dear America: Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen WHite
- Dear America: The Journal of Joshua Loper by Walter Meyers
- Dear America: A Coal Miner’s Bride by Susan Bartoletti
- Dear America: My Brother’s Keeper by Mary Pope Osborne
- Dear America: Color Me Dark by Patricia McKissack
- The Royal Diaries: Nzingha by Patricia McKissack
- The Royal Diaries: Kaiulani by Ellen White
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Unclean Spirits by M.L.N. Hanover
- My Wicked Vampire by Nina Bangs
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Hannibal by Thomas Harris
- Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
- Heaven by V.C. Andrews
- Insomnia by Stephen King
- Needful Things by Stephen King
- Death of an Ordinary Guy by Jo A. Hiestand
- Amazing Gracie by Sherryl Woods
- Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
- On Writing by Stephen King
- My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews
- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
- The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
- The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
- Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell
- Comfort and Joy by Fern Michaels
- It by Stephen King
- The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- The Dark Half by Stephen King
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
- Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich
- Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Foul Play by Tori Carrington
- Buried in Buttercream by G.A. McKevett
- Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
- A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
- Up Close and Personal by Fern Michaels
- In Folly Beach South Carolina by Loree Lough
- Suburbanistas by Pamela Satran
- The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
- Summer Shadows by Gayle Roper
- Stars Collide by Janice Thompson
- The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- Spring Rain by Gayle Roper
The Writer's Inkwell 
Wow – great haul! 🙂
Thanks! I had to refrain from buying all of their Nancy Drew books. They had a ton of them!
Oh…that would be hard!! 😀
Yes! It was really difficult. But I’m glad someone did get all of the books. It helps raise money for the library and clear up their storage unit.
That’s a nice stack of books. And I like that cover of Return of the King I see there. 🙂 I think comics can be a great way to get kids reading, I read a ton of comics as a kid and believe it or not it improved my vocabulary- some of those comics had big words I’d never seen before. 🙂
I believe it! I remember my X-Men comics from childhood. But fortunately I was a huge bookworm back then.
I think its wonderful that you bought all of those comic books for your son. It still counts as reading, and its a smart approach to encouraging him. When I was much younger, a lot of what I wanted to read was discouraged. Now I get to read whatever I want, and I still feel like I am playing catch-up.