{"id":640,"date":"2012-03-23T21:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=640"},"modified":"2012-03-23T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T02:06:41","slug":"friday-finds-at-a-favorite-book-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/23\/friday-finds-at-a-favorite-book-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Finds At A Favorite Book Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed across the state to Harrisonburg for a workshop and left early enough to have time to stop into the Green Valley Book Fair<\/a>. Off the beaten path, this warehouse is a book lover’s dream…sprawling shelves and tables with a wide variety of books. \u00a0It is only open for several weeks at a time and you can find deals everywhere. \u00a0I limit myself to one basket of books and walked away with a nice stack.<\/p>\n

The two by David Baldacci–Stone Cold<\/em> and Divine Justice<\/em>–would not normally have interested me, but I started listening to The Collectors as I drove and was happy to discover this is a series. \u00a0Two more–The Best of Virginia Farms<\/em> and Self-Sufficiency<\/em>–will be added to the farming shelf. \u00a0I really don’t need another book that tells me how to do everything as Self-Sufficiency<\/em> promises, but I opened it right to an easy recipe for strawberry jam and with strawberries coming in very soon, it just seemed destiny. \u00a0I added Bernard Cornwell’s The Burning Land<\/em>, the 5th books in the Alfred the Great series, which means I still have 3 to go before I can read it. \u00a0(The Pale Horseman<\/em> is waiting on my Nook once I finish this post.) \u00a0And, finally, a new edition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men<\/em> by James Agee and Walker Evans, will join the southern writing shelf.<\/p>\n

\"100_0001\"<\/a>I LOVE this part of Virginia. The landscape reminds me so much of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, where I grew up. \u00a0The hills roll a bit more but the dairy farms with their silos and neat farmsteads are similar. When I left the bookstore, I chose the third route suggestion on my map app as it took me over the dirt roads rather than putting me back on Route 81. \u00a0I was rewarded with gorgeous views of farms and cloud-filled skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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