Too Good to Be True

Cyber Monday has come to a close. My adrenaline started flowing yesterday around 8 pm when I saw Half Price Books Marketplace would be offering free shipping on everything. I pulled up my Amazon Wishlist and started searching. I was delighted to find many books for 99 cents!

The endless possibilities of books I could get for thrift store prices shipped to my home started flowing...was this really going to work. When the deal went live at 9 pm I had 15 books in my cart and clicked BUY. The deal cleared and I think I uttered to Wyatt I can't believe it and I will probably be up all night searching. Alas the dream was short lived and as I continued to search all the prices that should have been 99 cents were 4.99. (they had added the shipping cost to the book prices making the deal a scam in my opinion)

Wyatt said I should be thankful for getting the 15 books at rock bottom prices. I am giddy thinking about all these books currently in route to my house from around the country, but I can't help but be disappointed about all the ones that got away.

On another book related note, Zoraida and I have gathered all our Christmas books together in baskets for this month. I have amassed quite a few mostly from thrifting. Here is the list:

• Messiah: The Wordbook for the Oratorio, George Frideric Handel
• A Christmas Testament, Phillip Kopper
• The Christmas Day Kitten, James Herriot
• The Snow Tree, Caroline Repchuk
• Cookie Count: A Tasty Pop-up, Robert Sabuda
• Lift the Flap Nativity, Allia Zobel-Nolan
• The Newborn King, Cindy Robertson
• The Christmas Cross, Max Lucado
• Frosty the Snowman, Hallmark book read by grandma
• The Polar Express, Chris Van Allsburg
• Journey to Bethlehem: the story of the first Christmas, Dorothy Van Woerkom
• One Wintry Night, Ruth Bell Graham
• Religious Christmas Stories for Children, an Ideals publication
• The Carols of Christmas, an Ideals publication
• Nativity, Winston Press
• A Child's Book of Christmas Carols, Illustrated by Masha
• The Kingfisher Book of Classic Christmas Stories, selected by Ian Whybrow
• Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book
• Usborne Lift-the-flap Nativity

Do you have a favorite Christmas book?