AURELIUS - Valerie Head's Saturday was dedicated to book sales. After heading to the Skaneateles Library's book sale, her next destination was the Fingerlakes Mall's Book Bonanza.
She had index cards of titles of all her favorite authors: John Sanford, Patricia Cornwell, Nora Roberts, V.C. Andrews, Phillip Margolin and more. Titles written in pencil were the ones she doesn't have. Titles written in pen were the ones she does have.
She reads four or five novels a week. “And if I'm on vacation, more,” the Sennett resident said. She brings books she has already read to the inmate students at her pre-GED teaching job at a correctional facility.
Head loves reading for its distracting capacity. “You can't think about anything else when you read,” she said. “If you're stressed you can't read.”
Head's book search was expansive, but Carl Leonard, of Cascade, had a specific hunt: golfing books with instructions.
“I got a lot of these funny things, which are great,” but Leonard said he still wasn't finding exactly what he needed. He held out hope as he browsed the extensive offerings of the sports books table.
The center of the mall's food court was filled with tables loaded with donated books instead of tables with the usual diners. Diane LaRue, the Bonanza's organizer, said the sale was progressing ahead of last year's fundraiser for St. Joseph's School in Auburn. Last year's sale of books donated by the community raised $15,000 for the school.
“We're grateful the community donated so many books,” LaRue said. “The community donated 80,000 books to us.”
One Rochester resident drove more than 50 miles to come to the book sale. Jamie Waldron's mother-in-law librarian told him about the book sale, he said.
He found most of the books in the L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series, a book series he didn't get to finish reading as a teenager. “It's science fiction and it's a mixture of future and modern time, alien and human,” Waldron said.
His entire purchase was $15.50, much less than the $200 alone it would cost to purchase new copies of the science fiction series.
He also found five books to add to his 300-strong collection of antique books dating between 1850 to 1960. But the antique books must still be “something I'm willing to read,” Waldron said.
“I'm a book geek. I'm an English major,” said Kristen Pidlyphcak as she shopped for books along with her friend Crystal Smith. She found literary cliff notes, a biography about Mahatma Gandhi and some fiction selections. Smith was looking for one specific book without success, but she planned to come back today to browse further.
Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net
She reads four or five novels a week. “And if I'm on vacation, more,” the Sennett resident said. She brings books she has already read to the inmate students at her pre-GED teaching job at a correctional facility.
Head loves reading for its distracting capacity. “You can't think about anything else when you read,” she said. “If you're stressed you can't read.”
Head's book search was expansive, but Carl Leonard, of Cascade, had a specific hunt: golfing books with instructions.
“I got a lot of these funny things, which are great,” but Leonard said he still wasn't finding exactly what he needed. He held out hope as he browsed the extensive offerings of the sports books table.
The center of the mall's food court was filled with tables loaded with donated books instead of tables with the usual diners. Diane LaRue, the Bonanza's organizer, said the sale was progressing ahead of last year's fundraiser for St. Joseph's School in Auburn. Last year's sale of books donated by the community raised $15,000 for the school.
“We're grateful the community donated so many books,” LaRue said. “The community donated 80,000 books to us.”
One Rochester resident drove more than 50 miles to come to the book sale. Jamie Waldron's mother-in-law librarian told him about the book sale, he said.
He found most of the books in the L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series, a book series he didn't get to finish reading as a teenager. “It's science fiction and it's a mixture of future and modern time, alien and human,” Waldron said.
His entire purchase was $15.50, much less than the $200 alone it would cost to purchase new copies of the science fiction series.
He also found five books to add to his 300-strong collection of antique books dating between 1850 to 1960. But the antique books must still be “something I'm willing to read,” Waldron said.
“I'm a book geek. I'm an English major,” said Kristen Pidlyphcak as she shopped for books along with her friend Crystal Smith. She found literary cliff notes, a biography about Mahatma Gandhi and some fiction selections. Smith was looking for one specific book without success, but she planned to come back today to browse further.
Staff writer Amaris Elliott-Engel can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 282 or at amaris.elliot-engel@lee.net
