When you're somewhat of a bookworm, on holidays and have some extra cash to spare (not in my case) why not head off to the local bookfest? I had never seen so many books in one space all my life! The books were sorted into paperback fiction, hardcover fiction, comics, reference books, Australia, cooking, crafts and gardening, games, rare and collectables, history, war and vehicles, music, health, new age and comedy, sci-fi, religion, foreign languages (I might have missed some).
I had a really good time trying to see if anything tickled my fancy. I had a pretty big pile of books by the time I finished, but I cut it down to three in the end. Jeffy was so good carrying all the books for me (a good 1.5 hours spent doing so) and hanging around even when next to none of it interested him. I knew from the start that he would be bored, yet he trodded along patiently and happily. Here are some photos of our adventure. Enjoy!
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| For some reason we found an awful lot of these books (not just in this pile but scattered throughout the paperback fiction section. I figured that this series is either a) very popular or b) unwanted by a lot of people. |
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| Here is J looking through a meat cookbook. He wanted me to buy it and cook him the food in it. I told him I could but in the end he didn't want to buy it because he was determined not to buy anything. I think he was just craving some meat because we had fish + veges + rice for lunch. I was getting pretty hungry by the end of the browse. |
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| The three books I ended up purchasing! |
The Shakespeare Curse; by J. L. Carrell ($5)
A brutally murdered body is discovered on a remote Scottish hillside - with a mysterious knife beside it. The victim was a beautiful young woman, throat slashed by an unknown assailant. The circumstances of the murder suggest ancient pagan sacrifice. Then a trench on that same hill is found filled with blood. The shocking discoveries seem to be linked by the ancient curse of Macbeth. From the streets of New York to the twisting corridors of Hamptom Court Palace to a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands, the race is on to stop a deadly modern serial killer who will do anything to uncover priceless ancient treasures...
Soups and Breads; by Jane Price ($10)
From light and zippy soups to more substantial main meals, and accompanied by delicious bread recipes, Soups and Breads offers a tantalising array of dishes for every occasion, no matter what the season. Some soups I am keen to try out are: Ratatouille and Pasta Soup, Vietnamese Combination Seafood Soup and the New England Clam Chowder.
The DaVinci Code - Special Illustrated Collector's Edition; Dan Brown ($6)
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre, Jacques Saunière, has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizzarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.
Langdon suspects the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - a centuries-old secret society - and has sacrificed his life to protect the Priory's most sacred trust: the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. But it now appears that Opus Dei, a clandestine sect that has long plotted to seize the Priory's secret, has made its move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.
In this exclusive edition Dan Brown allows the reader behind scenes of the novel, which now incorporates over 150 photographs and illustrations throughout the text showing the rich historical tapestry from which he drew his inspiration. The visual sources, which provide both the backdrop and the stimulus for the novel's action, are revealed for the first time and uniquely complement the reading experience.
