I am trying not to borrow too many books from the library but I recently had to pick up a book for an upcoming book group meeting and ended up with a few others that sounded good and just what I need to get me back into a my reading groove.

The first book I checked out is Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo. This is the one for my August book group meeting. I have read one of the books in the series, actually I listened to it on audio, and I liked it quite a bit so I was excited about this one. I have started it and so far I’m really enjoying it.

I picked up Virgin a poetry book by a new to me poet, Analicia Sotelo. I haven’t picked up a poetry book in a couple of months.

Dorothea Beaton Frank is a bestselling author and I know quite popular but I haven’t read any of her books. By Invitation Only sounds like a good beach read type book and could be just what I need.

The last book is America is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo. I’ve seen this book mentioned quite a bit around blogland and immigrant stories are always of interest to me so I had to add this to my bag.

What do you think of my borrowed books? Have you read any of these?

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. I’m so excited because one of my best friends is going to be in town and I’ll get to see her. Yay. More book talk soon.

I hope you’ve all had a really great start of the month. My husband is back from Germany and we had a nice and quiet weekend. Again, thank you so much for all your sweet comments on my last posts!

So one of the things I wanted to talk about recently is that I’ve really gotten into thrifting lately mainly because I’m exploring junk journals so one of my recent stops at a local thrift store I didn’t find any books but I found these awesome bookplates. Aren’t they cool? I remember when I first saw a poster of Bookwoman years and years ago and always meant to get one but never did. I don’t really use bookplates but for 99 cents I couldn’t pass these up and besides I can use these in my journaling.

One great source for books is Thriftbooks.com. How is it that I didn’t know about this website? It’s awesome and if you place a minimum order of $10 then you get free shipping. Gotta love that.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to place an order and here is what I found some books on gardening, fairies and best of all a copy of The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden. I was really happy with my purchase and can’t wait to start using some of these books for my junk journals and other mixed media projects.

Did you know about Thirftbooks and have you used them before?