Books Books and more Books

[tarotgal]

Just came back from the library book sale again. I only got two bags' worth but I think I got a lot of good stuff and useful stuff:

For Bookcrossing:

• 19 Dog books for the upcoming dog challenge
  
• The Scottish Rose by Jill Jones
  
• Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
  
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
  
• Dubliners by James Joyce
  
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  
• The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare
  
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
  
• Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare (yes, two copies)
  
• Star Wars (George Lucus)
  
• Star Trek: A Flag Full of Stars by Brad Ferguson
  
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (it's such a nice copy... but I already own a copy...)
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  

For me (or maybe BookCrossing eventually for a few of them):

• Her Majesty's Wizard by Christopher Stasheff
  
• X-Men (movie novelization)
  
• The Once and Future King by T.H. White (I thought that went remarkably well with the above X-Men book, no? heehee)
  
• The Pearl by John Steinbeck (I've never read this)
  
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (One of the few Dickens works I've never read)
  
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (I haven't read this either)
  
• Star Trek DS9: Objective: Bajor by John Peel
  
• Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau (I've always wanted to read this cover-to-cover, not just portions like we did in school)
  
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  
• Winter Moon by Dean Koontz
  
• X-Files: Runes by Kevin J. Anderson
  
• X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant
  
• Dave Barry Slept Here by Dave Barry
  
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov (I have all three in separate paperbacks, but thought this was nice to have them all together in one volume)
  
• Star Trek: Q-Squared by Peter David (Hardback- I have it in paperback already)
  
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M Montgomery (Hardback and beautifully illustrated)
  
• The Art Book by Phaidon
  
• Catwatching by Desmond Morris
  
• Wolves by Candace Savage (I thought it would be good inspiration and I don't own any wolf books)
  
• The Wolves of Yellowstone by Phillips & Smith
  
• Trail of the Wolf by R. D. Lawrence
  
• National Gallery of Washington
  
• National Gallery of London
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
  
• Computer Game: Star Trek: Judgement Rites (I dunno if it's any good, but it looks not so hard and interesting)
  
• Audiobook: Animal Farm by George Orwell (I'm in the middle of reading it right now, but I thought the audio might be fun)
  
• Audiobook: Icebound by Dean Koontz (For me/my boss)
  
• Audiobook: Alice & Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (I checked when I got home and it is missing one of four tapes- grrr. So I dunno)
  
• Audiobook: The Shining- Stephen King
  
• Audiobook: Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
  
• Audiobook: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  
• Audiobook: Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
  
• Audiobook: The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  
• Audiobook: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
  
• Audiobook: Wild Mountain Thyme by Rosamende Pilcher (I have bought copies of this for BC but thought reading it/listening to it would be good to do)
  
• Audiobook: I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy (Read by Leonard Nimoy)
  
• Audiobook: Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic by Jeri Taylor (Read by Kate Mulgrew)
  
• Audiobook: The James Joyce Audio Collection (Some read by James Joyce)
  

So not bad for $10 in total, right? *G* This should last me a VERY long while!!! I plan to pass on many of the books and audiobooks when I'm done with them.

Comments

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you are SO lucky to have these awesome book sales so near you and on such a regular basis! I never hear about anything like that going on here (though I don't get out much on the weeks that I'm working, so I suppose it's largely my fault.)

Those are some pretty awesome finds! A nice mix of classics and pop culture. I've been wanting to read stuff like 'Lady Chatterly's Lover' and 'The Mists of Avalon' for a long time, so I'm sure they'll make great bookcrossing subjects. And if that hardback illustrated copy of 'Anne of Green Gables' is the same as the one I got for Christmas when I was 11 or so, then it's definitely a beautiful keeper! The full color pic of Gilbert saying 'carrots!', and the one of her floating down the stream in the boat have always been favorites of mine.

[tarotgal]

The two libraries I visit regularly only have two large book sales a year (on in the late spring and one in the late fall)... so it's not *that* regular. But it's certainly enough for me! It's also really nice to see how many people in today's world are obsessed with books :-)

The Mists of Avalon- I highly recommend it! Believe me, my "I want to read that" list is incredibly long! LOL

The X-Files books, though... I was wondering if you had any interest in those when I finished with them :-)

Anne of GG- I haven't gone through it completely yet, but it's illustrated by Lauren Mills and features Anne sitting on a bench at the train station on the cover.

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

I guess I still feel a little bit like an outsider in my town, despite having lived here for 3 full years now, because I've never gotten around to getting a library card here. I'm ashamed to admit it, but my book reading dropped off significantly when I first discovered fanfic, and it's never really recovered. The only times I've been to any of the libraries here was for a series of LOTR book discussions.

Part of the reason also has to be because I'm lazy, I admit it, and a homebody too. Growing up, my mom used to bring me books home from the library where she worked, and I would read the ones that looked interesting to me, and she'd take them back when I was done. On my weeks off, I don't leave the apartment all that much unless I have a place I specifically want or need to be. I do most of my shopping online now, except for groceries. I'm trying to eat healthier too, so even my trips to get fast food have dropped off a lot.

As for the books, I don't think that's the same copy of Anne of Green Gables that I have, but it still sounds lovely nonetheless.
I have a couple X-Files books already, but I don't remember them being all that good, honestly. About on par with the couple SG-1 novels I've bought. Certainly not anywhere close to the show before they went off the conspiracy deep end. I don't know which titles I have either (they're boxed up at the moment), so I wouldn't know if the ones you have are the same as mine. Thanks for thinking of me again though! :-)

[tarotgal]

I've read bits of Walden in high school, but never the whole thing. I'm looking forward to getting to it. I bought Walden Two by Skinner months ago at the library for ten cents, actually! So they're sitting together on my "To Be Read" overflow shelf :-)