A book you bought on a trip

[Paige]

Williamsburg is an hour away for me. DC is about four. I'm also returning to New York where I'm from for my wedding. Would buying books from any or all of these places count?

[Carrie]

I'm picking We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oats.

[Kirsten]

Remember the prompt doesn't say WHEN you bought it on a trip... or where the trip was to...

I visited my brother in Boston 3 or 4 years ago and purchased The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War so I will be reading that.

[Elyse]

Paige wrote: "Williamsburg is an hour away for me. DC is about four. I'm also returning to New York where I'm from for my wedding. Would buying books from any or all of these places count?"

Absolutely

[Paige]

Elyse wrote: "Paige wrote: "Williamsburg is an hour away for me. DC is about four. I'm also returning to New York where I'm from for my wedding. Would buying books from any or all of these places count?"

Absolu..."
Thanks! I guess I wasn't sure because it's places I've been to before, or if it wasn't far enough to be considered travelling. But I am seeing now that they all count. Thank you!

[Amanda]

I'm also primarily a library user, so books that I buy are ones that I have already read and loved, or they are from loved and trusted (many times over) authors.

I *could* just go ahead and purchase a book on Kindle on my next trip (visiting SO's family in a few weeks) just for the sake of completing this, but I wonder if it isn't equally (if not more) in the spirit of the prompt to read a book that I was given by a friend on a trip I took last year. I haven't read it yet, so it would be perfect, except for the pesky purchase price of $0.

[Elyse]

Amanda wrote: "I'm also primarily a library user, so books that I buy are ones that I have already read and loved, or they are from loved and trusted (many times over) authors.

I *could* just go ahead and purcha..."

I would count it!

[Anna]

Count it, Amanda! I trade books on trips often -- with my dad, with other friends, or even with the reading room shelf at the hotel/apartment I'm staying at. Cuts down on the number of books I have to lug around. (I resisted a Kindle for ages...)

I happen to buy books by local authors as souvenirs from my travels, but I think "got on a trip" -- even if you didn't spend any money -- is a great way of interpreting the challenge.

[Deb]

So, Hubby and I went to Charleston, SC last weekend. I was in the College of Charleston bookstore when a book caught my eye. I was trying to resist temptation when I realized, "Hey! This is one of my PopSugar prompts. I have to have this!" So, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House ended up coming home with me!

[Elyse]

Deb wrote: "So, Hubby and I went to Charleston, SC last weekend. I was in the College of Charleston bookstore when a book caught my eye. I was trying to resist temptation when I realized, "Hey! This is one of ..."

Sounds like a funny, but scary, book! lol

[Doreen]

It was hard to choose just one book for this prompt, but in honor of National Library Week last week, I picked a book I'd gotten at a library sale in Nebraska. One of my favorite things to do when I'm traveling is to walk around the local library and get a sense of its place in the community. And in most libraries, I eventually find a room or a bookshelf where they're selling books for a quarter, or maybe a dollar. I like to get books that I might not otherwise read -- maybe by an author, or in a genre, that I've been meaning to explore. The money helps the library; and in a sense I get to extend the feeling of adventure that's part of a good trip. The book I'm reading, by the way, is Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories, edited by Thomas, Thomas & Hazuka.

[Elyse]

Doreen wrote: "It was hard to choose just one book for this prompt, but in honor of National Library Week last week, I picked a book I'd gotten at a library sale in Nebraska. One of my favorite things to do when ..."

I've read this one Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories! Library book sales are the best!

[Doreen]

Elyse wrote: "Doreen wrote: "It was hard to choose just one book for this prompt, but in honor of National Library Week last week, I picked a book I'd gotten at a library sale in Nebraska. One of my favorite thi..."

I agree!

[Mike]

I was cleaning out some old boxes and I found The Monster at the End of this Book, which I had bought for my kids about 10 years ago at the Raleigh-Durham airport! Just read it, and it counts.

[Elizabeth]

I absolutely love this challenge! I don't travel often but when I do one of my main places to visit is a local bookstore in the town I'm visiting. Even if the book I purchased isn't one I liked, I love knowing that I picked it up during one of my travels, supported a local bookstore, and that I remember everything about where and when I bought that one specific book.
Typically when I'm at home I prefer to borrow from the library as well, or trade books with fellow reader friends and co-workers, but I just love having a purchased book as a souvenir; sometimes they are from local bookshops and other times they've been from flea markets, museums, or anywhere that can sell books, really. For this prompt I've chosen The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven which I purchased from a bookstore in Wall's Drug Store in South Dakota on a trip to see the Badlands and Mount Rushmore. A bonus: the book was on clearance! And I had been wanting to read it for some time as Smoke Signals is one of my favorite movies.

[Alycia]

I'm currently on vacation and just bought sooo many books .... all just so I could fulfill this prompt. {wink wink}

[Stina]

I just spent the weekend at Denver Comic Con, and I went a little nuts at the Tattered Cover booth. So I will have plenty to choose from. I imagine I'll start with All the Birds in the Sky, signed by Charlie Jane Anders, since that's up for a book club discussion next week.

[Jenn]

Read Heat Wave by Nancy Thayer for this one while I sat by the lake :) this was a stretch because I almost never buy books so I grabbed it in Dollar General while picking up some necessities

[Malaraa]

Elizabeth wrote: "I absolutely love this challenge! I don't travel often but when I do one of my main places to visit is a local bookstore in the town I'm visiting. Even if the book I purchased isn't one I liked, I ..."

Also, local bookstores usually have those little paper bookmark promos at the checkouts, so for anyone with a shifty memory, it makes a little helper reminder!

And Elizabeth, if your travels ever take you through Columbus, OH, make sure you pick The Book Loft to visit - it's incredible! :)

[Rachel]

I didn't buy it, but it was a book I first discovered and considered buying while on a trip. I just finished reading The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr.

[Nancy]

I just finished reading A Man Called Ove which I bought at the Spokane airport.

[Chinook]

I've bought a ton of books while on trips but most of those are in Canada with most of my physical book collection. However I remember vividly buying First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers in Hanoi, so ill borrow a copy from the library and read that.

[Elizabeth]

So...I don't have money to buy books. I just use my library's resources. How do I work with this?

[Tara]

A lot of good will type places sell books really cheap (1-2.00 or less) so you could count a trip to a goodwill. Or you could maybe borrow a book to take on a trip so a book you read on a trip rather than bought.

[Tara]

Or sort of like chinook said, if you've bought a book on a trip ever reread it or a book you got as a gift from someone who bought it on a trip... although that's probably less likely lol

[Chinook]

Take a trip to the library and pick one.

I feel like their heart was in the right place with this task but hey just didn't consider finances.

If you want, you could think along the lines of "if I went to X place, I'd take along X book."

[Diane]

I'm thinking you take a trip to the library and get lucky enough to find a free one! 😉

[Paige]

I picked up the 2018 edition of the Farmer's Almanac while I was in Arlington. I liked that this challenge forced me to finally read something I've been considering for years. Totally will be using this in future years to come.

[Cindy]

I don't normally buy books on trips but I picked this up in Berkley, CA several years ago. It's short but so clever: Christopher Cricket on Cats: with observations and deductions for the enlightenment of the human race from infancy to maturity and even old age by Anthony Euwer (also the illustrator). It was originally published in 1909.

[Anshita]

I picked up a wonderful copy of Sula by Toni Morrison from a local railway station. I finished another book on the travel, and now I will read Sula!

[Jacqueline]

I was just thinking that I haven't bought a book on a trip since 2010 (airport prices do suck so now I take an ereader everywhere with me) but then I remembered that last month on the way home from a wedding I stopped at a little second hand bookstore in a small country town and got lost amongst its bookcases. Bookcases that completely filled the little shop and that were way taller than me. They all had double packed shelves and excess books were piled high on the floor everywhere so that you could hardly get between them. And they were having a half price sale. I came away with 10 new books (a few Stephen Kings, a few James Pattersons, a couple of Matthew Reillys for Hubby, World Without End Ken Follett and a few others that the names escape me at the moment). I had to limit myself as that was all the cash I had on me and they didn't have a card machine. Thankfully for my bank account.