Comments on: Guilty pleasures, the paperback edition http://robinbrande.com/reading/guilty-pleasures-the-paperback-edition For writers, readers, and independent thinkers--book talk for readers and writers, life chats when we need them, writers' motivational articles, secret behind-the-scenes stories from the publishing trenches, and more. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:13:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: bj http://robinbrande.com/reading/guilty-pleasures-the-paperback-edition#comment-72 bj Mon, 08 May 2006 18:57:39 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/guilty-pleasures-the-paperback-edition#comment-72 For beach reading Happiness Is Finding a Thrift Shop that sells Paperback Books by the BAG for circa five bucks. I know of three. I've hit them all over the past two weeks. Yeah, I know, I should support writers and buy books new, which I do more than occasionally, but with the "habit" I'm feeding buying everything I read new is just not possible within my budget . . . Within those three bags is a Pat Conroy I haven't yet read (amazing!), a Candace Bushnell, an Anchee Min, a Jonathan Kellerman, an Elmore Leonard, and even more amazingly, a Len Deighton and a John D. MacDonald. You'll notice, if you're a voracious reader, that at least one of these authors has been dead for awhile. That's the other joy in thrift shopping-- finding the things you missed when they came out a few years ago. For beach reading Happiness Is Finding a Thrift Shop that sells Paperback Books by the BAG for circa five bucks. I know of three. I’ve hit them all over the past two weeks. Yeah, I know, I should support writers and buy books new, which I do more than occasionally, but with the “habit” I’m feeding buying everything I read new is just not possible within my budget . . .

Within those three bags is a Pat Conroy I haven’t yet read (amazing!), a Candace Bushnell, an Anchee Min, a Jonathan Kellerman, an Elmore Leonard, and even more amazingly, a Len Deighton and a John D. MacDonald. You’ll notice, if you’re a voracious reader, that at least one of these authors has been dead for awhile. That’s the other joy in thrift shopping– finding the things you missed when they came out a few years ago.

]]> By: annette http://robinbrande.com/reading/guilty-pleasures-the-paperback-edition#comment-71 annette Mon, 08 May 2006 18:01:46 +0000 http://robinbrande.com/reading/guilty-pleasures-the-paperback-edition#comment-71 help, i'm going on vacation soon (sun, sand and surf) and need some reads. any suggestions for "meaty" paperbacks, for someone whose taste in fiction leans towards "one hundred years of solitude", "rain of gold" and "a suitable boy"--you get the drift. in non-fiction, any true life adventure, historic or contemprary would be swell. thx help,
i’m going on vacation soon (sun, sand and surf) and need some reads. any suggestions for “meaty” paperbacks, for someone whose taste in fiction leans towards “one hundred years of solitude”, “rain of gold” and “a suitable boy”–you get the drift. in non-fiction, any true life adventure, historic or contemprary would be swell.
thx

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