So, you’re given a prepaid visa with a balance of $100, and two hours in your favorite bookstore. What do you buy? The hardcover new release that everyone’s talking about but has been out of your budget? A stack of magazines you’d never normally be seen in public with? Or an old favorite remembered from childhood.
I’ve been known to do all of the above on various shopping trips, or none. I’ve been known to buy seventeen books, and sometimes just one.
But hands down, my favorite place to begin is the New Fiction section. I love discovering authors when their work is new. Sometimes, I build lifelong relationships with them – I’ve been reading the Pink Carnation series since day one, for example, and I was reading the Anita Blake series years before it had gained any popularity – when it was being released only as mass market paperbacks, in fact.
So, if you’re reading this, tell me: what’s your fantasy book buying spree?
Book buying spree…oh the joys!
It would depend on the mood and the current path my reading passions are taking at the moment…but I do know I would buy a stack of great magazines to start with–I’m a ‘zine junkie and the bookstores have some great, unique ‘zines!
I’m an avid library patron and only buy books I plan to keep, so likely I would find some of the titles on my ‘get n keep’ list and then simply browse to see what decided to come home with me.
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I’d go armed with my wishlist (I have one over at BetterWorldBooks), and try to get as many of them at the best prices I could–unless, however, something else grabbed my attention….