Like a moth to a flame, I’m drawn just about every year to the Friends of the Tompkins Co. Library Book Sales. They’re held over three weekends in May, which coincides with Ithaca’s Spring (W)rites festival, and in October. It’s one of those local rituals one falls into in this town, whether you’re here for four years of college or for twenty-to-life.
I always, always manage to find a few treasures, even when I saunter in on the last weekend of the sale when books are the cheapest and the shelves have been all but picked clean. It looks like I neglected to post last year’s haul, but I got a lot of stuff in 2023.
Anyway, here’s what I found this time around…
- SWORD STONE TABLE by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington (eds.)
- THE TOKYO-MONTANA EXPRESS by Richard Brautigan
- NINE BAR BLUES by Sheree Renée Thomas
- MY DATE WITH SATAN by Stacey Richter (which, come to think of it, I might already own…? I’ll have to look in storage.)