May Book Haul!

While May is far from over, I still have not secured employment so I seriously doubt I will be purchasing more books this month. As it is I only purchased 3 anyway.

First some vintage books from the Op Shop

 As you may already know from my review earlier in the month, I went to see Only Lovers Left Alive at Nova. It's about the lives of some Vampires, and Tilda Swintons' character Eve has the most amazing collection of old books which she has obviously collected over the centuries in many different languages. This enticed me to check out the vintage book section in my local book store.

And that is why I bought these books;

 Both have pencil notes in them and A Tale of Two Cities has information about the previous owner and what classroom he was in at McKinnon High. Both books set me back a mere $3.50.

I have to say I love the history contained in old books and all the signs of the previous owner.

Now the op shop doesn't seem to check the books for whatever bits and pieces the previous owners may have used as a book mark, and I have collected various bookmarks from preloved books, vintage books are no different.

 German Classics had this little bit of cardboard inside, used as a bookmark.

Now the book itself I couldn't date because its an Oxford print which doesn't seem to contain a date anywhere, but the train timetable is from 1st March 1916.

 So I also got this cool little card from the past in the bargain.

It is a train time table from Melbourne to Camberwell to take effect from the 1st March 1916 until further notice.

 

The only other book I bought, stemmed from watching The Hobbit too many times last month.

I rented An Unexpected Journey and Desolation of Smaug from the kiosk for $4.50 then I rented An Unexpected Journey again later in the month before caving and buying it later as an ex-rental.

I then decided I couldn't wait for the next movie and had to know what happens. First I looked in up on Wikipedia but found I still wanted to read the story.

So a quick stop at Dymocks after a job interview and I had this  

I chose the pocket edition because I love hardcovers and thought the pocket edition suited the fact that it was a story about a hobbit.

I immediately read it and loved it, you can read my review HERE

 

You may also note that I have lost all my previously uploaded photos.

I had an argument with my Google+ account and accidently deleted the wrong folder where apparently google store all my blog photos. Oops!

So that's it, they are all gone.

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