time to shop!

because I read so much
and so often
I am always buying books 
(unfortunately I haven't made friends with publishers for ARCs and I don't enter giveaways - mostly because they're US only)

but budget wise, I prioritize my books .. well, after the bills are paid #adulting.

Now, I get my books from numerous sources. 

this past weekend I had 4 sources and got about 40 books. 

I am a major supporter of shopping local and supporting the independent stores
but the town i live in only has 1 - which i got to often (they also take books if i ever get doubles or feel the need to give up on a book) 
and where my parents live/where i grew up no longer has any indy stores which makes me sad. As a teen I used to go to them every weekend. *sobs* 

There is a second hand clothing store that has a book section that I check out a lot
and that was one of my sources this past weekend that i got about 20 books from. 

I mainly resort to Bookoutlet's website (though I have been to their store. It's 5 hours away so it doesn't happen often) 

Occasionally I will make a great find at Wal-mart. I'm not a huge fan of buying books from them, but sometimes there are cover buys that are awesome from there. I've found Jamie Maguire's Beautiful Disaster, A.G. Howard's Splintered (but only the first one. then i bought the others at Chapters), and Emily Foster's how not to fall.  Which all 3 are 10/10!

The Canadian equivalent to Barnes and Noble is called Indigo (Chapters/coles/indigo spirit are sub stores by all the same company) and they are my other go-to when it doesn't make sense to place an order from BO.  Rarely are the books on sale but i tend to just pay it and deal with it. They have a point system that's good, and bounce-back coupons now and then so it's all good. Plus, yay canada. 

Every once in a while I find some new releases at costco too. we don't shop there often though. (it's a bulk store and i think it's canadian..?) 

Now my final place I get books is the bookish community. There are other bloggers, such as Booksmacked on facebook, who posts free/on sale books on amazon.  Mostly they are romance/erotica which is fine by me. Sometimes we get some fantasy stuff (but still the sexy stuff). 

I also review for 2 different groups where authors send in their books and I can choose which ones I want. I find this is the easiest way to find new authors and meet other bloggers. 

Plus, i've met some of my best friends by doing this :)  


Do you know of any other sources? let me know in the comments!