Hi everyone! I hope your week is going well. I wanted to share with you all some fun news-I have started a Book Tube channel! If you aren’t familiar Book Tube is a term for those channels that talk all things book. I have been wanting to create one for a while and now I have finally gone ahead and set it up along with my first video. I will still share all the goodies here as well so no worries about that changing but I am hoping you will like the additional content.
For my first video I am sharing a used book haul. I am so fortunate to have an amazing used book store not far from me where you can go and wander and easily fill a morning. I always find something and my most recent trip was no different.
I was really excited to see that they now have a vintage book section and I found a few great books there. First up is a book called, “Ruth Fielding Treasure Hunting” by Alice B. Emerson. I have really enjoyed books that are a bit historical fiction but that have a female detective or amateur sleuth and this one seemed like a perfect fit. There are other books with Ruth Fielding as well so I am happy to have more to choose from down the road. This has gone onto my TBR (To-Be-Read) shelf.
Next up in the way of vintage, or older books is book #1 of The Hardy Boys mysteries. (affiliate link) I was a Nancy Drew reader when I was younger and I thought this would be a nice book to add not only to my collection but to our homeschool books as well. The book shop had more of the mysteries as well so it will be fun to add to the collection. I added this to my TBR as well.
Another vintage book I picked up is “Lady Jane” by Mrs. C. V. Jameson. I don’t know anything about the story but I loved the cover and it had writing inside dated 1943 so it seemed like a nice collectible either way. I added it to my TBR as well.
Some other books are “The Photograph” by Beverly Lewis (affiliate link), Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart (affiliate link), “The Bad Beginning” (affiliate link) by Lemony Snickett and “The Reptile Room” (affiliate link) both books I haven’t read and am excited to finally read. I picked up “The Sisters Grimm: Tales from the Hood” by Michael Buckley. This is book #6 in the series and I haven’t read any others but it looks like something I might be interested in. Lastly I picked up “Cracking the Code: Secrets of the Blue Hill Library” by Emily Thomas. This gives me all the cozy mystery feels and I think I am going to enjoy sitting down with this one.
So that’s my haul! I also picked up 3 books for the kids that I didn’t mention and all in all spend $30 which seems like a pretty amazing deal to me. What books are you reading right now? I would love to hear! Be sure to link to your book related posts below-I would love to add more books to my never-ending TBR!
Until next time…
-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante
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Oh I read both the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books growing up (my babysitter had the whole series of Hardy Boys in hardcover and I’d sneak them during “nap time”).
Oh what a good memory! We were at the library today and I showed my 12 year-old a Nancy Drew book and she seemed interested. She likes to only have 1 book at time going though so she may check it out when she finishes this one.