Friends of the Library Used Book Sale Score

[create_destiny]

Total Spent: $13.25

P.S. Yes, I am addicted to buying used books. No, I haven't read all the books I last posted a photo of. Yes, I'm still on a short story kick (in theory). No, Mary Karr's memoir is not a short story. Yes, I do get easily distracted and yes, I do have too many damn books. Do you want to make something of it? We could, you know, because I'm just doing laundry right now and waiting for Family Guy to start, so I've got like, five hours.

Comments

[nodressrehersal.livejournal.com]

Nice haul. There's no such thing as too many books; it's right there in my profile, so it must be true.

Is that right, you rarely finish what you start, as in, books? You rarely finish a book? I'm finding that difficult to believe; surely you meant some other often-unfinished task...

I love buying used books. It seems preposterous that you can get a hardcover by a favorite author for $1 when a candy bar costs $.75 these days.

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

When it comes to books, most of the time I finish what I start. Other tasks....like art projects for example, are hit and miss. If there's a deadline involved, forget it!

[honeywoney.livejournal.com]

Since my travels keep me focused simply on the coast, it is highly unlikely that I will find myself knocking at your door, so to indulge my curiosity, you must photo your entire bookshelf at one point and post that too!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do this! I'd have to do it one section at a time. I want to see photos of your collection, too.

[honeywoney.livejournal.com]

True that - one section at a time. I'm such a dork that I've created an entire section just for my Californiana.

[cwmackowski.livejournal.com]

That's an impressively groovy stack-o-books. How do you have time to watch Family Guy with all that good readin' staring you down?

[shellynoir.livejournal.com]

*laughing*

Friend me!

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/shellynoir

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

That's quite a collection. Friended you back.

woo

[robin-andersen.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous;) but is there such a thing as "too many books"? I somehow doubt it.
Good haul. I love those "Friends of Library" sales. I won't tell you about the stack I got here to read.....

Re: woo

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I want to know about your stack!

Re: woo

[robin-andersen.livejournal.com]

oh no you don't. Just on my desk alone, there's the 2007 Crochet Pattern a day calendar, a Betty Crocket picture cookbook, a "Craft" magazine, "Ben Hur", "Palm Weaving". "The Perfect Sister", "adventures in knitting" ( I _believe_ just having the books will teach me to knit;)) some Nicole Hollander "Sylvia" books and a Kliban book. I need to read faster or quit work;)

[faerieariel.livejournal.com]

You will love the Chabon book. I'm curious about Lost in Translation, post reviews!

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the Chabon book.

Bibilomanic guilt

[lcurtis.livejournal.com]

Bibilomania! A rare untreatable, affliction not found in the DSM IV often co-diagnosed with wordaphrenia. A disease often found in writers.

Re: Bibilomanic guilt

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

That's pretty funny. Dirk found a book (at the Friends of the Library Book Sale no less) by Hick Hornby called, The Polysyllabic Spree. The blurb on the front: "A hilarious and true account of one man's struggle with the monthly tide of books he's bought and the books he's been meaning to read."

[k1tchenwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous!! That's one gorgeous stack of used books. I've only read (and v. much enjoyed) the Lahiri. Oooo, I wish we had sales like this around here. . .

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to your forth coming chapbook.

Glad to hear you liked Lahiri. I'm looking forward to that one, too.

[sardonic-artery.livejournal.com]

Ah, Mary Karr, I've only ever Read Sinners Welcome and then I loaned it to a friend (you know how that story ends).

If you like short stories I always recommend Amy Hempel (Amy Hempel is a great minimalist short story writer. Miss a sentence and you're lost. Nothing difficult, just every sentence matters. She's real hit and miss--she tries hard enough to actually miss--but check out "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried". That story has been widely anthologized). Then there's Pam Houston, Raymond Carver, and Alice Munro. You know, more stack for you to go through.

[createdestiny.livejournal.com]

I haven't read any of Mary Karr's poetry but I'm so looking forward to it.

I've read Amy Hempel's Reasons to Live and found it to be wonderful stuff.

I've read some Raymond Carver and meh, I'm not sure I understand his appeal.

Pam Houston---I love her but I haven't read any of her novels or short stories.

Alice Munro---tried her once, but not really hard. I will try her again.

[sardonic-artery.livejournal.com]

Reasons to Live is my favorite fiction book, period.

I wasn't too down with Pam Houston's novel, but her shorts are great. Some call her a female response to Hemingway. I'm going to be seeing her again at a writers conference soon.

Alice Munro is hit and miss.

Raymond Carver is odd. The stories don't seem that good, but they have a way of sticking with you. I wrote on one such story here (8/13/06):
http://sardonic-artery.livejournal.com/78469.html

[korolyeva525.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... I didn't realize The Namesake was a book...