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This weekend's haul from a local library book sale was less stellar than usual. I'm not sure if I arrived too late on $5/bag day, or if there were just fewer books in the sale this time around. It's possible that the people who buy about 10 bags of books on bag day to resell them in their own used bookstores cleaned the place out early.
Nevertheless, it was still a somewhat quality haul:
- Rama II / Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
- Myra Breckinridge / Gore Vidal
- The Great Divide / Studs Terkel
- Hard Times / Charles Dickens
- Cities in Flight / James Blish
- The Martian Chonicles / Ray Bradbury
- The Andromeda Strain / Michael Crichton
- The Lurking Fear and Other Stories / H.P. Lovecraft
- Shaft / Ernest Tidyman
- The Changeling / Zipha Keatley Snyder
- The Vintage Mencken / Gathered by Alistair Cooke
- It Can't Happen Here / Sinclair Lewis
- Architecture, Ambition, and Americans / Wayne Andrews
- The James Beard Cookbook
- Send / David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
- The Things They Carried / Tim O'Brien
- The Boys of My Youth / Jo Ann Beard
- The Silent Traveler in San Francisco / Chiang Yee
3 comments:
Ever read Lovecraft before? Fascinating in small doses, but after a while you realize that there can only be so many insane artists in Arkham, Massachusetts...
I imagine your apartment as either this fastidiously organized uber-library, or as complete chaos...books under the table, books holding up the bed, a nightstand made of piles of books...
Someday I hope to have the uber-library... I'm still living in one room in a friend's house, so I've got a packed bookshelf in there, plus more books in the extra bookcases up the attic. And about 12 boxes stored at my parents' place. Plus, I even have some stored in the car. It's my architectural dream to have one room as a library where ever I do wind up.
Although, I have used books as end tables before, though they were packed in a box and a scrap piece of IKEA placed on top of them...
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