Books Below

Are cheap books worth the read? I've been picking up dollar books and giving them a chance. Here's where I chronicle my journey to finding gold.

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I think there ought to be more quiet voices out there. Maybe I think it's wrong for all the quiet voices to feel so...detached. and angry. and...alone.

Serenity Rose, issue 1. inside back cover.

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Comic Claim- August

My friend and I went to a local comic shop for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was a spur of the moment adventure so we didn’t have much in the way of money to spend. Luckily the shop had a dollar bin for odd bits of issues. Sadly, we only had time to look through the bins, but I found quite a few! Not all first issues though.

What I found

Top, left to right:

The Wicked and the Divine issue 20 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, and Clayton Cowles

The Wicked and the Divine 1831AD issue 1 by  Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hanz, and  Clayton Cowles

The Wicked and the Divine issue 22 by  Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, and Clayton Cowles

Bottom, left to right:

Tank Girl- Gold, Jet Girl Special issue 3 by Alan Martin and Brett Parson

Serenity Rose issue 1 by Aaron Alexovich

Princeless- Raven: The Pirate Princess issue 8 by Jeremy Whitley, Rose Higgins, and Ted Brandt

Tank Girl- Gold, A Tank Girl Primer by Alan Martin and Brett Parson

I haven’t gotten to reading them all but I did read Serenity Rose, so i’ll post about that one soon! 

On the topic of only the one being a first issue: I like the idea of dollar bin finds leading one to discovering a series they would otherwise pass up. So as I read the other finds, I focus on if the series is worth continuing while understanding there are aspects of the plot I wont get. That disclaimer aside, I look forward to reading these.

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Current Claim

While away visiting family, I stopped by the dollar store and after searching the shelves I ended up buying these three. Somehow the theme was “undead”.

From left to right:

Red Delicious: a Siobiian Quinn Novel by Caitlin R. Kiernan writing as Kathleen Tierney

Unbreakable: The Legion Book 1 by Kami Garcia

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Initially, I was ecstatic for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies because the hype train for the book  passed me due to my... fear of zombies. But after the movie and the praise, i’m glad to be giving this book a try. 

What drew my eye to Unbreakable was that Garcia is the author of the Beautiful Creatures series which is a familiar name and cover, but once again I didn’t get into the series when I was in high school. 

Red Delicious was a book I initially overlooked, and then it fell on me. Clumsy, I know, but that was when I read the blurb. “After successfully transitioning from being a notorious junkie demon hunter into a notorious werepire hit man...” I  knew it was the book for me. What can I say, it made me smile.

Not sure which I’ll start first, but i’m hoping to have struck gold