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Library Book Sale Haul

Our local Friends of the Library had a fill-a-bag for $3 sale, and I had some books to donate to them, so I stopped by and ended up with these gems. They're all in great to like-new condition. I enjoy Anne Perry's historical mysteries, and I think the Anne Rice novel predates her rediscovering religion. We'll see.

The bread machine cookbook has 300 recipes, which will be very helpful during the holidays, and give me a chance to use my machine again.

The Love Letters book has all these cool little tucks with reproduction letters in them. I also found someone's wedding pic in one of the tucks.

I paid $3 for the pile, and then donated another $2 because I felt each one was worth at least a buck. Then I donated about $100 in nearly-new books to the library, so I feel I earned my little haul.

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nightsmusic said…
That love letters book is wonderful! I don't know that I've ever read Anne Perry, but I've read Anne Rice. I think that's an old book.

I have a bread machine. I actually had a bread machine but gave it to Thing One because I hardly ever used it and had zero room for it. A few months later, Thing One gave me a new bread machine because she thought I gave her my old one after she showed an interest in it. *sigh* So now, I have a bread machine I'll hardly ever use in a teeny tiny kitchen with no room to store it.

Again...
November 5, 2019 at 5:46 PM
the author said…
The Anne Rice is from 1997 so I wonder if I have already read it and just forgot.

I'll let you know if I discover any earthshaking recipes from the bread machine book. I can't eat a lot of bread because of the carbs, but with the holidays coming I might make some loaves as gifts. In my copious spare time, ha.
November 7, 2019 at 8:59 AM
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