Get Booked Up

Instead of sleeping in last Saturday morning, Hubby and I crawled out of bed at 7am. (To clarify, I crawled blurry-eyed since I am not a morning person, Hubby was bright-eyed.) Crazy, I know, but we decided to take a day trip to Archer City, Texas, home of the -- what can only be described as -- the world's largest used book store Booked Up. It's so big that it takes four buildings to hold all the books. Yes, that's right, four buildings. As an avid book lover I was overwhelmed by the number of books I really wanted to purchase. Both of us really had to limit the number of books we bought, but somehow we managed to drop some serious cash at this shop. I found signed books by Susan Sontag, Antonia Fraser, and the Duke of Bedford (which they had missed, perhaps because it was a personal inscription to an employee). I think they had more books than the library at the university I attended. Next time we go I think we'll make a list of the books and/or subjects we would like to find. Booked Up is my mecca.