After our weekly trip to the assisted living facility, we were almost home and TW mentioned the Little City Used Book Sale. I’d planned for us to go but didn’t think TW’s mom would be up to it after a very long morning/afternoon out. But, she heard “used books” and she was ready to roll.

So, I made a quick right onto Glenview Rd and after driving through the parking lot at Old Orchard Mall (a parking lot that I hate almost as much as the Butler Plaza parking lot in Gainesville) we found ourselves at the big tent.

It was late so there was plenty of parking right close to the tent, which is good since we had a wheelchair and the weather was beginning to look very much like rain.

We rolled into the tent, grabbed a shopping cart, and took off.

An hour later, we had a full basket of books and I was dragging TW out by her jacket. As I dragged her, she just kept saying “But I didn’t have time to look at any books!” Err, then how did we come home with five dictionaries, one of those huge one volume encyclopedias, eight cookbooks and a whole lot of paperbacks?

We’re pretty jaded when it comes to used book sales. We come from the land of the famous Gainesville Friends of the Library Book Sale and it’s hard to please us. Little City’s book sale tried hard to win us over and it did… even though there weren’t quite as many books, it’s in a tent, and it’s more expensive. This is a used book sale that’s a really nice replacement for our old favorite. We’ll be looking forward to next year’s sale.