We had yet another successful book hunting trip while driving back and forth to Mom’s XXth School Reunion this last weekend. (If I give you the number, that gives you her age which then means I’m in the dog house for the next XX years… =)

The ‘hunt for the wild book’ is one of the most fun things I know. Going to yard sales, thrift stores, library bookstores, estate sales, antique stores, scanning the internet for bargains, and looking anywhere else a ‘wild book’ might be hiding is such a thrill for me and Mom.

We go high and low, and see all sorts of places we might never have gone otherwise and meet people of all walks/interests. It’s like small treasure hunts, with hours of enjoyment waiting for us afterwards as we read and catalog our finds.

And books are a gift that keeps on giving as they can be read over and over by the recipient or given to yet someone else to enjoy, keeping the book ‘alive’. Plus, if a book isn’t quite my cup of tea, it gets ‘recycled’, either through selling it or donating it – my idea of a nice ecological niche, keeping knowledge and enjoyment out of landfills, and into the hands of people who will enjoy such. (Of course, there are a few books that were either soooo badly written or in such bad shape they deserved a visit to the landfill, but even then, I tore off covers, and recycled the paper at the very least…)

For an idea of some of the ‘wild books’ we bagged, here’s just a small listing:
(We actually found a few hundred but it will take a while to get them all up, especially when you consider time out for reading!)