Second hand hoarded book challenge :-D :-D

[Chantal]

Do you love to pick up books from the thrift store? Do you love to buy second hand books at a church fair or craiglist? Or are you buying them second hand online? Is your book cabinet becoming full with second hand books? Is your hoarding :-D getting out of control? Then you need this challenge for the last 4 months of 2019.

General Guidelines

* This challenge starts on 1 September 2019 until 31 December 2019
* Each book entered should be a "second hand paper" book.
* The book must be bought by you. It doesn't matter where the book was bought, it could be a thrift shop/craiglist/church market/ online thrift shops etc.,. as long as it is second hand.
* The book can be used in other challenges
* Each book can only be counted one time in this challenge
* Everybody can join and it doesn't matter when during the challenge
* You keep track of your own score in every book entering post (1 book read is 1 point)
* Chatting is allowed

what to do when you finish a book for this challenge?:

- Mention the name of the book
- Mention who wrote it
- Mention where you bought it (if you still know this)
- Mention how much you paid for it (if you still know this)
- Mention your score in this challenge (1 book read is 1 point)

Winner gets bragging rights to this topic and more space in their bookcabinet!

People who joined (keep track of your own progress)
@Rachael
@Claudine
@Amy
@Diane
@Elle
@Catherine
@ZaraS
@Marc
@Tari
@Lois
@Jessica
@Chantal
@Angie
@Crystal

[Chantal]

Rachael wrote: "This is a really good idea! I have several second hand books I need to read. I'm not going to set a goal but hopefully I should be able to finish a couple by the end of the year."

Great! You don't have to set a goal.

[Claudine]

I love the idea, I'm in!

[Chantal]

Claudine wrote: "I love the idea, I'm in!"

Great!

[Amy]

Ooh I'm in-- aside from Goodread Giveaways, I get almost all of my books secondhand! I will go for 15!

15/15-- Challenge Complete!
Raising it to 25

25/25-- Challenge Completed!

1. The Godwulf Manuscript (library book sale-- $1.00)
2. God Save The Child (library book sale-- $1.00)
3. Holiday in Death (Amazon, used)
4. Rest In Pizza (free box at library)
5. Murder in the Mystery Suite (library book sale-- .50)
6. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (library book sale, 1.00)
7. Conspiracy in Death (library book sale, $1.00)
8. Nineteen Minutes (not sure where I picked this up)
9. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (library book sale, .50)
10. D Is For Deadbeat (library book sale, .50)
11. The Hours (Goodwill, $1.99)
12. "E" Is for Evidence (library book sale, .50)
13. 1st to Die (probably Goodwill)
14. Cross (probably Goodwill)
15. Dead Until Dark (library book sale, 1.00)
16. Dark Side of the Moon (library book sale, 1.00)
17. Garden Spells (library book sale, 1.00)
18. Exit Wounds (not sure where, 1.00)
19. Salting Roses (library book sale, .50)
20. Jewels of the Sun (bought at Pam's Paperbacks, which has sadly been closed for years)
21. Animal Dreams (library book sale, 1.00)
22. Murder With Peacocks (Savers)
23. Purebred Dead (library book sale, 1.00)
24. The Water Witch (library book sale, .50)
25. Water Witches (library book sale, 1.00)

[DivaDiane]

I like this idea a lot. Aside from Audiobooks I by almost all of my books second hand. And I have bought so many that I have over 300 unread books on my shelves!

Of the books I have planned through the end of the year at least 7 of them are used books. The others are rereads or audiobooks.

1. Downbelow Station
2. Women of Wonder
3. Ballad of Beta 2
4. The Joy Luck Club
5. Cloven Hooves
6. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
7. Girl with a Pearl Earing

[Chantal]

@ Amy and Diane welcome and great you are both joining!

[Elle]

I'm in! I have quite a few books from second hand bookstores and thrift stores waiting to be read. Let's see how many I can read before the end of the year.

[Chantal]

@ Elle great! I hope you read lots of them.

@Catherine I put them mostly in these mini libraries on the road or I bring them back to the thriftstore.

[Zara's Retreat]

This sounds like a very interesting challenge. Most of my books these days tend to be from thrift shops etc. I don't buy many new ones now compared with even a year ago.

[DivaDiane]

I’m incorrigible- I keep them all.

[Chantal]

Catherine wrote: "Chantal wrote: "@ Elle great! I hope you read lots of them.

@Catherine I put them mostly in these mini libraries on the road or I bring them back to the thriftstore."

I adore those mini roadside..."


I thought about doing on too in my front yard, but I dont know it would give me anxiety.

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

Great challenge idea! I'm in. I'm glad it lasts until the end of the year because my September is already booked up (ha ha) with library loans for the most part. I hope we do this again in 2020 because I intend to work through a lot of my owned collection in the new year, and I virtually never buy books new (except as gifts/for my kids, or anything by Grady Hendrix from now on). My most common source is huge tri-annual book sales at my public library, at which I volunteer so I can get first crack at what's available.

I will try for a conservative 12 already-owned bought-used books for the remainder of this year:

Format:
- Book/Author
- Where I bought it
- Cost
- Current challenge score

[Chantal]

@Marc Welcome! If it goes alright, I do want to do this also in 2020 as topic.

[Tari]

I have a boatload of secondhand books I've bought and some apply to other challenges for the rest of the year, so I'm gonna concentrate on some of those, 4-5 at the most. Over the course of a whole year if you decide to do this in 2020, I'm sure I could knock out a lot more than that. :)

1. Due or Die Jenn McKinlay

2. Masking for Trouble Diane Vallere 10/20/19
Amazon Marketplace, $5 and some change, 1 pt.

3. Buried in a Book Lucy Arlington 9/10/19
I probably got it on eBay for less than 4 bucks, 1 pt.

4. Bran New Death Victoria Hamilton 10/8/19
Amazon, $6, 3/22/17, 1 pt.

5. Toasting Up Trouble Linda Wiken Got from ThriftBooks for around $4

[Lois]

Great idea! I have so many books that fall into this category!
1. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
2. Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
3. Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
4. A Favorite of the Queen
5. Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
6. Across a Star-Swept Sea
7. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
8. A Feast for Crows
9. The Young Elizabeth
10. An Improper Widow
11. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
12. Lady Hathaway's House Party

[Jessica]

I would LOVE to take part in this challenge! 😍 About half of the books I own are thrifted from all sorts of places... However I am currently taking part in my first ever Readathon I am currently hosting for the month of September... I will be sure to join in from October and onwards, though! 👍

[Chantal]

Welcome @Terri and @Lois.

Welcome @Jessica, if the books from the readathon fit in this challenge, you can post them.

[Chantal]

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1.***Crusade in Jeans from the dutch writer Thea Beckman. I paid 4 euro (more then I wanted but I wanted this childhood book so bad) last year in shopping mall where they had some second hand book sellers.

2.***Belledonne kamer 16 from .Anke de Vries I bought this book in the local thriftstore for 1 euro.

3.***It from Stephen King. I bought this on a church market last year for 1 euro.

4.***Heidi leert de wereld kennen from Johanna Spyri. I bought this little booklet (part 2 of heidi) in the local thriftshop for 0,25 euro cent

5***The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Got this book from the local thriftstore for 1 euro.

6***Heidi Grows Up by Charles Tritten. Bought it online at betterworldbooks.

7***Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. Bought it a the local thrifstore for 0,50 euro cent.

8***Rasmus and the Vagabond from Astrid Lindgren. Bought at the local thriftstore for 1,50 euro.

9 ***Heidi's Children from Charles Tritten. Bought online from betterworldbooks.

10***Storm of the Century from Stephen King. Bought at the local thriftstore for 0,50 eurocent.

11***Saartje Tadema from Thea Beckman. Bought at second hand book sellers in the local mall for 3 euro.

12***The Flemish House from Georges Simenon. Bought at the local thriftstore for 25 eurocent.

13***The Goonies Storybook from James Kahn. Bought second hand on amazon.

14 ***The Girl I Left Behind from Shūsaku Endō. Bought second hand on betterworldbooks online.

15 ***In stukjes from Marc-Marie Huijbregts. Bought in the local thriftstore for 0,50 eurocent.

16***Gekaapt! from Thea Beckman. Bought in the local thriftstore for 1 euro.

17***Het uur van de haan from Thea Dubelaar. I got it from a local mini library

18***Gnome Clock Book from Rien Poortvliet. Local thriftstore for 2 euro.

19***A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder by Gregg Olsen. Bought second hand online betterworldbooks.

20***Het geheim van Rotterdam from Thea Beckman. Bought it at the second hand stall in the shopping mall for 4 euro.

21***Het Sinterklaasboek from Jaap ter Haar. Bought it at the thriftstore for 1.50 euro.

22***The Little House Guidebook by William Anderson. Bought second hand on betterworldbooks.

23***Canyons by Gary Paulsen. Got it at a swapping second hand books day at the library.

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 2/15

The 2 books that I read so far for this challenge are from a library book sale. If anyone is in the W. Mass or Southern Ct area, I have to recommend this sale. It is the Belchertown Library and they do it twice a year-- Oct and April. It is very worth driving to. It isn't a cart or a few tables-- it is two entire floors, and takes hours to look through. Best-- each hardcover is $2.00 and each paperback is $1.00 except the last day. On that last Saturday every book is half price, so $1.00 and .50. I get tote bags full of books for so cheap!

[Jessica]

Chantal wrote: "Welcome @Terri and @Lois.

Welcome @Jessica, if the books from the readathon fit in this challenge, you can post them."

I am aiming to read 3 books this month... Two of which are second-hand ^_^

1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
2. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

[Angie]

I'd love to join if it's not too late? I picked up a few from a book fair recently, so this is good motivation to get through a couple of them.

[Chantal]

Angie wrote: "I'd love to join if it's not too late? I picked up a few from a book fair recently, so this is good motivation to get through a couple of them."

Welcome, never to late :-D

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

I'm starting my first read for this challenge... Stephen King's It. See you all in 1100 pages! I won't say how much I paid for it (rhymes with thrifty bents) because y'all are gonna be jealous XD.

[Chantal]

Marc wrote: "I'm starting my first read for this challenge... Stephen King's It. See you all in 1100 pages! I won't say how much I paid for it (rhymes with thrifty bents) because y'all are gonna be jealous XD."

Lol I got one too for that buddy read, I paid 1 euro for it last year

[Crystal]

I will Join

[Chantal]

Crystal wrote: "I will Join"

Welcome!

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 3/15

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 4/15

[Chantal]

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2.***Belledonne kamer 16 from Anke de Vries. I bought this book in the local thriftstore for 1 euro.

[Amy]

Updated message 6--- 5/15-- Murder in the Mystery Suite

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 6/15

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

Amy wrote: "Updated message 6-- 6/15"

You're killing it! What are the books and prices? I am 2/5 of the way through my first book for this challenge... but on the plus side I have the fewest number of library books checked out that I have had in many months, so will soon clear my plate to tackle these used books. It won't be enough to catch up, but you know.

[Amy]

Marc wrote: "Amy wrote: "Updated message 6-- 6/15"

You're killing it! What are the books and prices? I am 2/5 of the way through my first book for this challenge... but on the plus side I have the fewest numbe..."

Thanks! 2/5 is pretty good too! I got lucky-- I am dog-sitting for a friend so for 7 straight days it is just me and 4 dogs in a house surrounded by woods, so lots of time to read.

If you look up at my original post, 6, it shows all of the books and prices.

[Sarah]

Hi All,

I think this is a great. I love getting second hand books from library sales and charity shops. Normally, I only spend £1.00 on a book or less. I have a big stash of them of them waiting to read . I'm definitely going to make a genuine effort to go through them now.

[Chantal]

Sarah wrote: "Hi All,

I think this is a great. I love getting second hand books from library sales and charity shops. Normally, I only spend £1.00 on a book or less. I have a big stash of them of them waiting ..."

Welcome!

[DivaDiane]

Sarah, charity shops are the bane of my existence! I can’t seem to resist going into them and if they have anything I’m really interested in, then I can’t resist buying them. It’s only £1 after all! I console myself with books for my son mostly though, but then if I find 2 for him I have to find a 3rd because it’s 50p or 3 for £1!! Oh dear.

[Phoebe]

I'm definitely in! Used books are the best books! I'll go for 7, to be revised upward if I finish before then. (1 point so far)

1. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

I bought this book at 2nd and Charles (A national used book chain in the United States, run by the same people who run BAM. Cannot recommend it enough!). Cost was $3.29. I finished it yesterday, started on the 3rd.

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[Sarah]

I know Diane, I can't resist them either, there are just so many too,
The three for £1 is really good . They have lovely children's books in too. I don't have children but I'm a big fan of Children's and YA fiction. I recently picked up Lucy's Magical Winter Stories which is a lovely book. It was only a £1 from a cancer charity shop and I often pick up copies for my book group too.

[Chantal]

I cant resist second hand books, I always find something.

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

The front cover is falling off my 20 year old paperback copy of It. This read is killing it.

[Chantal]

@Marc, sending ducktape your way

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

Chantal wrote: "@Marc, sending ducktape your way

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My daughter will be happy if I cover up the clown face with that stuff, if I don't keep it out of plain view she has to flip it over and put something in front of the spine (which has the same picture in thumbnail size) to avoid looking at it.

[Chantal]

@Marc I have this version.

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 7/15

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

@Chantal, that is the worst cover!

[Chantal]

@Marc you daughter maybe would like it!

Yesterday i went to a church market and came back with 8 books. I am trying to clear out my book cabinet so it is not working. LOL

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 8/15-- Nineteen Minutes-- I am not sure where or when I got this book. It has been on my shelf forever. I know it is secondhand though--there was a plane ticket from 2008 Gatwick Airport London tucked inside. Sadly, that ticket was not mine.

[Amy]

Updated message 6-- 9/15 Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, .50 at library book sale

[Marc *Dark Reader with a Thousand Young! Iä!*]

Finally on the board:

- What: It by Uncle Steve
- Where: Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library Big Book Sale
- How much: $0.50
- Current challenge score: 1