The ThriftBooks Blog

By Terry Fleming • May 01, 2025

Welcome to Morally Grey fiction, where motives are ambiguous, intentions are ambivalent, and every flaw has a corresponding virtue! Morally Grey characters exist in many genres of fiction, but today, we'll be covering three: Fantasy, Thrillers, and Romance. Read on for book recommendations and more on the latest nuanced, dynamic trope added to our collection.

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By Terry Fleming • September 30, 2023

Hello Boils and Ghouls! The Thrift Keeper here (named for my devilish ability to find the Best Bargains among Blood-Curdling titles!), and today I’d like to talk to you about the importance of OCTOBER. For the first 13 days of this most gruesome of months (yes, leading up to Friday the 13^th), ReadingRewards members will get DOUBLE POINTS on ALL THE BOOKS by the thirteen authors listed below. And as a means of KICKING OFF this promotion, I decided to provide some FUN FACTS for each of our featured, sinister scribes…

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By Terry Fleming • September 07, 2023

Arnold Schwarzenegger's new self-help book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life is releasing October 10. In it, he gives an "inspirational tour" through his "toolkit for a meaningful life." In anticipation of this title, we decided to study his films to give advice to would-be action-movie stars on how to choose their roles. Here, in no particular order, is what we came up with...

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By Terry Fleming • June 15, 2023

While we wait for Wes Anderson's latest feature film Asteroid City and Netflix movie The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, let's review his oeuvre so far and his formidable legacy of style.

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By Terry Fleming • April 13, 2023

Hello Boils and Ghouls! The Thrift Keeper here (named for my devilish ability to find the Best Bargains among Blood-Curdling titles!), and today in honor of the movie Renfield I’d like to talk to you about the importance of FRIENDSHIP...

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By Terry Fleming • March 21, 2023

With the fourth and final season of Succession making its debut on HBO/MAX on Sunday, March 26, we’re asking the question, which Roy are you the most like? Check out the options below (with book and TV/Movie recommendations to help define each personality – mild spoilers ahead).

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By Terry Fleming • February 14, 2023

Hello Boils and Ghouls! The Thrift Keeper here (named for my devilish ability to find the Best Bargains among Blood-Curdling titles!), and now that the most horrifying of all possible holidays is over (Valentine's Day—YUCK!), I'd like to help re-darken your horizons by talking about Romance Gone Wrong!

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By Terry Fleming • January 17, 2023

Hello Boils and Ghouls! THRIFT KEEPER here (named for my devilish ability to find the Best Bargains among Blood-Curdling titles!), and today I'd like to talk to you about dolls.

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By Terry Fleming • September 27, 2022

Hello BOILS and GHOULS, and WELCOME to the ThriftBooks Grand Historical Tour of the Horror Genre! I'll be your guide for the evening, the THRIFT KEEPER (named for my devilish ability to find the Best Bargains among Blood-Curdling titles!), here to lead you towards some scintillatingly sinister selections.

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By Terry Fleming • April 25, 2022

Welcome to Sold, Viewed, Playful, New, where we spotlight popular/fascinating/favorite items in four distinct categories. Sold, for used books. Viewed, for DVDs or Blu-rays. Playful, for board, card, or video games, and New, for new books. April and all its foolishness has us exploring the Fool, or Trickster, archetype among books, games, cartoons, and more.

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By Terry Fleming • March 22, 2022

With the debut of Ryan Murphy's The Andy Warhol Diaries on Netflix, Andy Warhol is in the spotlight again. But while this docuseries focuses on Warhol's romantic and artistic life (with excerpts taken from his actual diary, which has a 25th anniversary edition coming out in May), we wanted to highlight some of the powerful personalities who moved in and out of Warhol's life, lending their own magnetism to his mystique.

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