library sales are best
Aug. 18th, 2011 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksEspecially when they are of donated books and don't mean the library is deaccessioning.
Things I got:
In the category of Stuff I Always Wanted To Own If I Could Get It Really, Really Cheaply:
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
Wild Robert, Diana Wynne Jones
The Woman Who Rides Like A Man, Tamora Pierce
Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce
Wild Magic, Tamora Pierce
Looking for Bobowicz, Daniel Pinkwater
In the category of Stuff I Haven't Read But Obviously Need To:
Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl
Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle (New York Review of Books)
The Eye of the Heron, Ursula K. LeGuin
In the category of It Was Fifty Cents, Dammit:
Return to Oz (movie novelization), Joan Vinge
Total cash spent: $19.50.
Library sales are BEST.
Things I got:
In the category of Stuff I Always Wanted To Own If I Could Get It Really, Really Cheaply:
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper
Wild Robert, Diana Wynne Jones
The Woman Who Rides Like A Man, Tamora Pierce
Lioness Rampant, Tamora Pierce
Wild Magic, Tamora Pierce
Looking for Bobowicz, Daniel Pinkwater
In the category of Stuff I Haven't Read But Obviously Need To:
Boy: Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl
Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle (New York Review of Books)
The Eye of the Heron, Ursula K. LeGuin
In the category of It Was Fifty Cents, Dammit:
Return to Oz (movie novelization), Joan Vinge
Total cash spent: $19.50.
Library sales are BEST.
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Date: 2011-08-19 02:25 am (UTC)I have been trying in vain to find That Book About Santa Claus since 1993, when my childhood library moved to a different building, and That Book was no longer to be found in the display case just to the left of the children's librarian's desk.
It is hard to search for a children's book about Santa Claus!
I actually had tears in my eyes when I looked it up on Gutenberg Project and found that yes, this is it.
Thank you. *soppy smile*
Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 2011-08-20 05:40 am (UTC)*is happy to have been accidentally helpful*
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Date: 2011-08-19 02:29 am (UTC)Have you read Going Solo? If so I imagine you are the ideal person to ask whether you have encountered the "man hides baldness by wearing wigs of increasing length and sprinkling Epsom salts on his shoulders and complaining of dandruff" story anywhere else. I was much surprised to find it in Goodbye to All That and now suspect that either Dahl plagiarized from Graves, or that this was an urban legend to which both had been exposed.
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 12:36 am (UTC)Bravo, sir. Bravo.
(I read Return to Oz in elementary school. I was reading all the other Oz books, Ruth Plumy Thompson included. Cue the nightmares . . .)
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Date: 2011-08-19 12:41 am (UTC)I loved this. Must have taken it out of the library every couple of months when I was in my teens.
Not that I'm not in favor of more work for Joan Vinge, but isn't novelizing Oz movies a bit recursive?
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Date: 2011-08-20 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-19 12:59 am (UTC)Nine
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Date: 2011-08-19 01:29 am (UTC)Boy is... well, very Dahl. I shall stop stating the obvious now.
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