cuz I want to know what Beth Parker got at the book sale. i just got back from day three of the three day extravaganza. there is an i love books thread too, but i know a lot of people here don't travel that far. here is what i just posted there:
the book sale was this weekend! three days. it's quite the affair. went the first day and spent about 30 bucks. but today, monday, everything is free! believe you me, they have a LOT left. anyway, here is what i have picked up in the last couple of weeks at the book sale/thrift store/dump:
annual world's best sci-fi volumes: 72/76/77/78/81/83
nebula award stories eleven (edited by ursula leguin)
harlan ellison - approaching oblivion
ann pyne - in the form of a person (short stories ???)
grace paley - later the same day
adam haslett - you are not a stranger here (short stories ???)
robert anderson - ice age (short stories ???)
italo calvino - marcovaldo
o*blek (literary mag)
john cowper powys - lucifer
bruce wagner - the chrysanthemum palace
kate atkinson - behind the scenes at the museum
evan s. connell - the alchymist's journal
penelope fitzgerald - the gate of angels
helen knode - the ticket out (crime novel)
paris review 40th anniversary issue (delillo and toni morrisson interviews. cheever journal excerpts.)
robert coover - the universal baseball association, inc, j henry waugh, prop.
andre dubus - dancing after hours
paule marshall - brown girl, brownstone (really nice out of print 1st edition of little-known african-american 50's lit)
tom phillips - a humument - a treated victorian novel
j.g. farrell - troubles
denis johnson - angels
pam houston - cowboys are my weakness
harold brodkey - first love & other sorrows
harlan ellison - the beast that shouted love at the heart of the world
vernor vinge - the collected stories
j.g. farrell - the singapore grip
calvin trillin - floater
william gass - in the heart of the heart of the country
five fingers review (lit mag)
graham swift - last orders
denis johnson - fiskadoro
malcom lowry - under the volcano
toni morrison - the bluest eye
brian moore - the color of blood
bizarre books (basically, long lists of weird books)
frederick barthelme - painted desert (which i'm reading now)
thomas berger - neighbors
tim powers - the drawing of the dark
marijane meaker - game of survival (couldn't resist this. weird 70's thriller about people stuck in an elevator!)
l.p. hartley - the go-between
tom drury - the end of vandalism (just finished this one)
anne lamott - hard laughter
paula fox - desperate characters (which i've read, but don't own a copy of.)
john fante - dreams from bunker hill & 1933 was a bad year
italo calvino - invisible cities
john westermann - sweet deal (soho crime)
kate atkinson - case histories
russell banks - continental drift (signed!)
alice munro - the progress of love (couldn't remember if i owned a copy)
frederick busch - harry & catherine
andre dubus - voices from the moon
paula fox - a servant's tale
dennis cooper - try
(all told, i don't even think i spent 40 bucks. beat that, amazon!)
― scott seward, Monday, 30 July 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)
l.p. hartley - the go-between -> One of my favourite books EVAH. Until I read (past tense) Room With A View.
fante? Never got around to him, even though my, at the time, great idol (hah!) Bukowski adored him.
dennis cooper? I'm sure I read one or two of his books but I can't remember which. His books were read in a period where I "devoured" books.
denis johnson - fiskadoro -> Pretty sure I read some of his books (in the same period as Cooper) but, alas, I can't remember anything but: I loved it. (because of xpost: I read jesus' Son. Thanks Rubyredd)
malcom lowry - under the volcano -> My friend said this was ace.
Me? I am currently trying (not) to order
Easy Knitted Socks: Fun and Fashionable Designs for the Novice Knitter - Jeanette A. Trotman; Paperback
25 Bags to Knit: Beautiful Bags in Stylish Colours - Emma King; Paperback
Xuxa: The Mega-marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity - Amelia S. Simpson; Paperback
Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations Into Veronica Mars (Smart Pop) - Rob Thomas; Paperback
Oh yes, quite intellectual, no? Whatever. I have a ton of unread "difficult" books in my pile. This is why I am trying to resist ordering the above mentioned books. I read slower than I buy'em. :-(
― stevienixed, Monday, 30 July 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)