Can't wait till payday, so I took back cans to go book shopping, not only that but I made a friend and got a phone number to hangout. Books are the best.

Commonwealth Books in downtown Boston has an incredible selection of used and rare books, maps etc. It's a bit of a hidden gem, but it's always got people browsing.

And it's right next to my dentist's offices, so stopped by and grabbed these after an adventure in orthodontics!

"Painted Ladies" is vintage 1978. "Karl Fog" has a clever overlay cover that, when removed, reveals a clear picture of the Golden Gate Bridge without fog.

I started reading this on a tablet and lost interest (Tablet reading sucks) so I'm excited to get to this once I wrap up another classic!

8 days and 7 bookstores between:

Providence, Newport and Westerly Rhode Island & Mystic and Niantic Connecticut

If I hadn’t gotten sick the last couple of days we would have been able to go to two more. But considering space in our luggage it was probably a good thing we didn’t. It’s so fun to share my love of books and travel with my daughter.

Not pictured: Star Wars ABCs for my baby due in April. It’s currently MIA.

First shot at robin hobb and I’ve heard some great things about city of brass!

Local library had a book sale this weekend and I only found out about it today. 50 cents for paperback and $1 for hardcover. Not pictured are three more hardcovers I got as gifts for my little sister. Overall it was $25, was there for almost an hour, left when there was less than an hour left for the entire weekend.

The Martian by Andy Weir from The Folio Society. It's gorgeous and I hope they do Project Hail Mary next.

Fun fact. This haul broke my bag. D&D books are heavy.

I have to admit, this is a bit of a strange one cause I usually read anything with dragons so I guess I wanted to expand my knowledge of Genres.

The Collected Works of H. P. Lovecraft - always loved his story and this one is filled with short stories including "The Call of Cthulu" and its hard back and sprayed edge so thats neat.

Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas - I hear a bunch of reviews about Maas' books, ACOTAR is on my TBH so I said "Fuck it".

DUNE by Frank Herbert - this was a great idea when I saw it, massive books (my average page count for books is usually 400+), interesting lore, films to watch afterwards, ect. It was brilliant when I bought it. Until I opened it... 6 seperate stories in 2 books with "Dune", Dune Messiah" and "Children of Dune" in the first one and "God Emperor of Dune", "Heretics of Dune" and "Chapterhouse of Dune", not to mention there both small print but also the page count has a total of roughly 1900 pages with the second one being 1000 pages by itself.

To put Dune into perspective, the biggest book i owned before today was "The Priory of the Orange Tree" by Samantha Shannon at 800 pages. Dune in total is 1000+ that. Im still gonna read it tho.

Adding to my ever growing “TBR” that I’m supposed to be reading from and not buying new books… oops.

All are used except for Dawn of Everything and The Secret History. These are to read for next year bc I’m still slowly but surely making my way through War and Peace