Building Your Personal Library - The Cheap Way!

 Hello friends!

I don't have a particular book to recommend right now, but I'll probably be posting on this one soon. I'm half way through and am loving it so far, but curious to see how it will line up with the movie in the end. I got this at the BYU bookstore the other day for $3.00. Not bad! They have a table at the end of children's section with a bunch of great deals on children's lit. I'm holding off on building my personal library right now in anticipation of the flood that will inevitably come if I get a teaching job next year. I want to know which grade level to start with. But I thought I'd share some places that I've found -and a lot of teachers use - to get cheap books.

A. D.I. - So good! Check out the children's section of the books next time you go. They have great books - often Newbury winners - at a great price. With a little digging you can get books in good condition ranging from $.50 to $4.00 for a really fat, popular, hardcover book in perfect condition.

B. Libraries - Libraries periodically get rid of old books either by giving them away, or by selling them for cheap.

C. The BYU bookstore - New book. Tuck Everlasting. $3.00. Enough said.

D. Amazon - My husband got me the entire Percy Jackson series for Christmas and the price was less than half on Amazon than at Borders (I think I'm a little anti-large book chains).

Well, hopefully that's helpful to some of you. Happy library building!

Daily Universe Article: Religion Professors Discuss Books with Religious Impact

This article is on the front page of the paper today and I enjoyed it. It gave me some good ideas for more books to read.

Click here to read the article

I recently read Enzio Busche's book "yearning for the living God" (mentioned in the article). I highly recommend it.