Used books - a haul

Me and my friend went on a quest to find a lot of cheap books yesterday, and ended up with seven for the price of one new book. Five of those seven were for me, and two for my friend. I'd say it was a pretty good day. All of these books are in Finnish, but I'm going to go through them from top to bottom with the English titles.

Angels by Marian Keyes is about a woman who catches her husband having an affair and gets fired from her job, and decides to go visit her friend in Los Angeles. This seemed like a fun, summery read, and I do like to read some chick lit every now and then. I have read one Marian Keyes novel before, and it was okay, so I hope I can get to this soon.

The next book is the Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket, part nine in the Series of Unforturnate Events. I have been slowly but surely collecting these books since I was a child, and I'd really like to have them all and finish reading the series. I think I have read about the first ten, but I don't know for sure. This series is about three orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, who go from family to family, distant relative to another, just trying to find a place to stay safe.

Then the books I'm probably most excited for as Jane Austen is one of my favourite authors, and I'd like to read all of her books. Northanger Abbey is about a young girl who visits Northanger Abbey. I don't really know anything else, I don't really want or need to know anything else. It's Austen, of course I want to read it and own it.

The second Jane Austen book is Mansfield Park, and it is about a girl, Fanny, who is brought up with her rich cousins. Then some people arrive to the neighbourhood and charm everyone but Fanny, who is very suspicious. Again, I don't know a lot of the story, but I don't want to know a lot. I really want to read both of these as soon as possible.

And last, the Water Horse by Dick King-Smith. This is about two kids who find an egg on the beach and bring it home. A creature hatches and the family keeps it, but as it grows bigger and bigger, they soon have to find a better place for it. This is a lovely story about how the Loch Ness Monster came to be, and as I love this book and the movie as well, I had to buy this.

Those are all the books I bought yesterday, and will be all I'm going to buy for a while. Next investment has to be a bigger bookshelf, so I'm saving money for that. No new books until I have a new shelf, it seems.