I went to the Arlington Heights Library Sale today with only a few bucks in my pocket, with the specific intent only to buy books that I really wanted. Normally I go to these things and grab up all kinds of stuff because they’re cheap, but we’ve been trying to cut back on wasteful spending lately.

Anyway, I couldn’t be happier with the result. Some of these books I’ve been actively looking for at sales everywhere for more than a year. Others I haven’t been looking for because I never thought I’d find them. And some I didn’t know existed but had loved the movies so I was excited to read the novels.

Right before I left, I happened to see a small crate of comic books, and found the first two Dark Tower comic book series.

I felt pretty good about only spending $10, and was very excited to find that this sale everything was half price, so it was only $5 for all of these!

But there was one more surprise in store; when I got home and was showing Janel these books, I noticed something VERY exciting inside one of my all-time favorite books:

I don’t know who Susan is, but her loss is my gain!