Earlier this month, I went shopping for new books. This is one of the definite perks of my job. Browsing through stacks and stacks of books and being able to buy so many of them for the library. I am fortunate that Mrs. Gassi provides me with a full budget to spend on new books.

As an avid reader, I get excited at the thought of all those books waiting for me to read them. This excitement grows when the books arrive at school and I begin to catalogue them. At that point I can browse through them at a more leisurely pace. This allows me to read through the first few pages of them, and this inevitably reinforces the reasons why I bought them in the first place.

It's amazing how quickly the time can pass as I stamp the school's name into the books, and then place a bar code upon the cover. I start reading one, and then another, and soon the period is over.

Here are some of the titles I have looked at today:

Stay tuned for more new titles.