recent bookspoils
Jul. 15th, 2009 04:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksmostly as a reminder to myself that I need to write up both Australia and Readercon.
Galaxy Books, Sydney:
Black Juice, Margo Lanagan, country-of-origin edition
The Game, Diana Wynne Jones, as the Aussie-edition cover was so gorgeous that I finally allowed my completist instincts to take over
Seen in Galaxy Books but not purchased because I am an idiot (and it was overpriced) (someone had better have this at Worldcon):
Cheek by Jowl, Ursula Le Guin's new book of essays
Readercon:
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle-- Tachyon has done a lovely edition which has made it into no bookstores around here, including the one I work for despite best efforts, so I was very glad to see this
God Stalk, P.C. Hodgell-- something in B.'s house ate my paperback, and delighted as I am by the omnibus I have a perfectly lovely copy of Dark of the Moon already, so I got this hardcover
The Castle of the Otter, Gene Wolfe-- the little book on how and why he wrote the Book of the New Sun, containing an essay in which significant characters from that each tell a joke, which jokes are worth the price of admission all by themselves despite not remotely being, you know, funny
On Joanna Russ, ed. Farah Mendlesohn, a sheer inevitability
Zeee, Elizabeth Enright-- what I wanted was Tatsinda, but no one has that, and did I mention completist? anyway this is a charming little picture book
Manuscripts Found At Saragossa, Jan Potocki, which sounds like exactly my sort of thing
the Michael Swanwick book on Hope Mirrlees as a present from Barbara
Things I Did Not See At Readercon:
the abovementioned Le Guin, any Geraldine Harris or Elizabeth Goudge (I cannot imagine seeing a copy of Valley of Song in the wild, but Readercon isn't the wild, and I had mad and unproven hopes), The Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Bone People, various other unattainable and unlikely things no one ever has: doesn't everyone have a list like that? someday, I will own a copy of L. M. Boston's only published play and then dayenu
I Probably Should Have Gotten:
Evenor, George MacDonald, a compilation of the three longest stories he wrote I don't already own; the Small Beer Naomi Mitchison about the bear; the Mendlesohn on Diana Wynne Jones
Oh this has gotten long, which is a pity when one is blogging so as not to have to put in the effort of writing up one's trip yet.
What single book would you ever be most violently surprised to see in a bookstore?
Galaxy Books, Sydney:
Black Juice, Margo Lanagan, country-of-origin edition
The Game, Diana Wynne Jones, as the Aussie-edition cover was so gorgeous that I finally allowed my completist instincts to take over
Seen in Galaxy Books but not purchased because I am an idiot (and it was overpriced) (someone had better have this at Worldcon):
Cheek by Jowl, Ursula Le Guin's new book of essays
Readercon:
We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle-- Tachyon has done a lovely edition which has made it into no bookstores around here, including the one I work for despite best efforts, so I was very glad to see this
God Stalk, P.C. Hodgell-- something in B.'s house ate my paperback, and delighted as I am by the omnibus I have a perfectly lovely copy of Dark of the Moon already, so I got this hardcover
The Castle of the Otter, Gene Wolfe-- the little book on how and why he wrote the Book of the New Sun, containing an essay in which significant characters from that each tell a joke, which jokes are worth the price of admission all by themselves despite not remotely being, you know, funny
On Joanna Russ, ed. Farah Mendlesohn, a sheer inevitability
Zeee, Elizabeth Enright-- what I wanted was Tatsinda, but no one has that, and did I mention completist? anyway this is a charming little picture book
Manuscripts Found At Saragossa, Jan Potocki, which sounds like exactly my sort of thing
the Michael Swanwick book on Hope Mirrlees as a present from Barbara
Things I Did Not See At Readercon:
the abovementioned Le Guin, any Geraldine Harris or Elizabeth Goudge (I cannot imagine seeing a copy of Valley of Song in the wild, but Readercon isn't the wild, and I had mad and unproven hopes), The Corn King and the Spring Queen, The Bone People, various other unattainable and unlikely things no one ever has: doesn't everyone have a list like that? someday, I will own a copy of L. M. Boston's only published play and then dayenu
I Probably Should Have Gotten:
Evenor, George MacDonald, a compilation of the three longest stories he wrote I don't already own; the Small Beer Naomi Mitchison about the bear; the Mendlesohn on Diana Wynne Jones
Oh this has gotten long, which is a pity when one is blogging so as not to have to put in the effort of writing up one's trip yet.
What single book would you ever be most violently surprised to see in a bookstore?
