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Who Do You Want for President?

Which Peanut character would you choose? I won't reveal my choice yet, but leave a comment and see if you can guess who I voted for. He/She immediately popped into my mind as a perfect presidential candidate. Go vote here.

Thank You Life Church

for the wonderful Bible App for my iPhone. (Did I mention that I have a brand new iPhone? Woo Hoo!) Anyway, Life Church provides a really neat Bible App for the iPhone for FREE! It has a daily Bible reading, a search feature, and is just a fantastic, cool app.

Ten Things I Like this Week

1. Cheap Books (C'mon...you knew it would be the top of my list this week, didn't you?)
2. Winds of War (book) by Herman Wouk
3. Reading a book series in order
4. Psych - This TV show is hilarious!
5. iPhone
6. Nutty Buddy Ice Cream
7. 90 degrees instead of triple digits
8. Mint Mocha Chip Frappacinno for only $2 after 2 p.m. with my Starbucks coupon card
9. All the Beauty (song) by the Weepies
10. A nice clean car with vanilla air freshner

Cheap Books Rock Part 2

After leaving Second Chance Books, we hit a couple of other stores and were headed back to pick up Kristen's car. Lo and behold we saw Mardel and Kristen said, "I wonder if it is the big book sale. They usually do it in August." So, of course we pulled right in. These books were cheaper than Second Chance. Unbelievable. Lowest marked price with 50%, 75% or 90% off. We got a couple of the books for only 50 cents each and several of the others were $1.24. Wow! Here's what I came home with:

When Breaks the Dawn, When Hope Springs New, When Tomorrow Comes and Beyond the Gathering Storm by Jannette Oke - I'm not usually much of a romance reader, but I remember reading a few of these books back in high school/college. Wonderful books. My favorite series is the one about the Candadian Mounty. We spent half our time at Mardel looking for Janette Oke books.

And We Are Changed by Prischilla Shirer - I like her so I bought the book for 50 cents. ;)

Sex God by Rob Bell - Interesting choice, huh? I like Rob Bell so I bought this one on the recommendation of Kristen. Speaking of Rob Bell, have you ever seen any of those Nooma videos? Must see!

Story by Steven James - Another 50 cent bargain so I threw it in my cart.

That's it. All my cheap books. I just finished rearranging my book shelves to squeeze in my new ones.

Cheap Books Rock

My sister and I went on a cheap book hunting expedition the other day and boy was it fun. I came home with way too many books. But, they were just so cheap, I just couldn't help myself. Our quote of the day was, "I need another book like I need a hole in my head." First we went to our new favorite used bookstore called Second Chance Books. (For you OKC locals, it is at 39th and MacArthur). Books everywhere as far as the eye can see. I spent over an hour perusing the mystery section. My boys love the comic book room. While there I picked up the following gems:

Dead Irish, The Vig and A Certain Justice by John Lescroart - I've heard lots of good things about his books and haven't ever read any so I took a chance and picked up three. I like to read a book series in order. In fact, it will make my crazy not to read them in order so I spent half my time at the bookstore trying to figure out the first book in the series. The iPhone did the trick. I'll make it easier for you, just click here.

Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille - This guy is one of my favorites. I once pretended to be sick so I could lay in bed all day and read one of his books, Up Country. I think that was the same book that caused me to take a 2-hour shower. I'm serious. I told my family I was going to take a shower and came out two hours later. I got a little sidetracked by the book. I did manage to get a shower, but I'm not sure I even dried my hair. Now that I think about it, I haven't faked a sickness to read in a long time. I'm past due. cough cough I hope I don't get "sick" this weekend.

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum - I saw the movie, but never read the book.

The Curse of the Pharoahs and The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters - I picked these up for my mom. She loved the first book and I think she needs to read the whole series. Wonderful series about a female archaeologist and her adventures. Click here for the book order.

I also picked up 4 or 5 comic books (Superfriends, I think) for my boys. I'm for anything that will get a kid reading. I loved comic books when I was a kid, but that's a whole other post.
Stay tuned for the rest of the cheap books...Yes, there's more!