Friends of the Library Used Book Sale Score

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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.

[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!

[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*

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

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.....

[faerieariel.livejournal.com]

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

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.

[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. . .

[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.

[korolyeva525.livejournal.com]

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