Reading Copy Book Blog

My favourite day of the year, the Times-Colonist Book Sale, lived up to my expectations this weekend.  I bought about 25 books for around $50, ranging from classics like Mrs. Dalloway to best sellers like The Corrections to Meg Gardiner’s second novel, Mission Canyon (Stephen King has me interested now!) and books I hadn’t heard of before like I & Claudius: Travels with my Cat.  I also had one truly unique find: a copy of The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore bound in snakeskin.

Snakeskin?  I can barely believe it myself.  We featured animal-skin bound books during the Snakes on a Plane craze last summer, so I knew these books existed, but I was certainly awe-struck to find this one hiding in a box among other poetry books.  Now comes the research into finding more about it.

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