Don't you just love it when you find lovely books at the used book store? I was so excited when I found this one! I've been looking for it for awhile. Our library doesn't have it so I asked them to order it but they never did! Consequently, I've been scouting around for it everywhere. Wow, It's a hard one to find! Until the other day! We hopped into the used book store to look for a present for a friend and I thought to myself, well, I'll just look again for that Thomas Hardy book. I went straight for H and found a bunch of Hardy books. ALL the wrong ones. So I was off looking for another book and my sister called me over and said hey, weren't you looking for a Thomas Hardy book? Which one was it? Then I said, Oh, I'm still looking for Under the Greenwood Tree but they don't have it. As soon as I said that she pointed to it and I snatched it off the shelf and clutched it for dear life! Oh happiness!
It's not even a great copy. Kind of ugly actually with it's weird green and gold cover but it's in pretty good shape and (best of all) has tons of markings and underlining and notes by the previous owner. :) The first page saysTo Gram
Love Wendy
Gram (or Wendy?) underlined this passage and then wrote "Hardy the poet." underneath. Yes, Gram, you are right! I love that passage too. :)
Ooh, and look! I found this lovely book in the kids section. It's the sequel to Pat of Silver Bush which I have yet to read. I'm going to make myself wait until I find the first book before I read this one. Have any of you read these books? Did you like this series?
Do you want to know what the best thing about this book is? It belongs to...get ready...Shirley Ann Cook!!!! Shirley Ann?! What are the odds? :) And look at the surprise I found after I got home!
Little Shirley Ann Cook was using this sweet little paper doll as a book mark. Do you think the doll minded? I don't think so. She probably loves to read. I should move her to a new page. She's most likely tired of reading page 120 over and over! I'll find a really interesting one for her to read. :)There, she can now read about the lady who mistakenly put rat poison in the family pancakes instead of baking powder!
I would love to hear if you have any interesting old books with odd names written in the front or other such things. Do tell!
Happy Reading!
Jane
1 comment:
I once found a copy of Eight Cousins, (not unlikely for me) It said, "To Merlene From Gordon, Rickey, Joey and John."
If those don't sound like names from Eight Cousins, than I don't know what does. Do you think Merlene was their only girl cousin? I think that's the cutest thing!
Farther down on the page it says, "If lost - please return." I always grow so sad when I read that. What if she lost it? Someone must have put it in the used book store, I suppose.. But, oh, how melancholy a thought!
Aimee
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