Books 'n Birthdays

I've been really good about not buying any new books lately; at least, if I've bought many, I've successfully blocked it out. :-p

However, it was impossible to let my birthday pass with no books!

Yesterday was my birthday, and I was good and limited myself to a knitting/crocheting book, since that doesn't add to my reading stack.

But then I got a check from my dad today. At first I thought, ooohhh, I can buy lots of yarn! Then Half Price Books happened. I was good in the sense that I limited myself to books that I've chosen for challenges or are on lists I'm reading from. Here's what I ended up with, for less than $35!

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Ursula, Under
Water for Elephants
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Solitaire Mystery

I saw several copies of Special Topics in Calamity Physics, too, but they were all hardbound, and I really prefer paperback. We actually even found ourselves right by *another* Half Price Books later in the evening and stopped in just to see if they might have a paperback copy, but nope. As if I needed another book...