Book sale #2, Day #1

[tarotgal]

Another book sale... This one's Friday's haul, but I'm just getting to unpacking the box I put them in, because yesterday was sooo busy (I went to work all day on a Saturday and battled a server)

• The Good Guy (Audio book- Unabridged CD)


• Bathman: The Complete Knightfall Saga (Audio book)


• Gray Matter & other stories from Night Shift (Audio book- Unabridged)


• Lisey's Story (Audio book- Unabridged CD)


• 'Tis (Audio book- Unabridged CD)


• News from Lake Wobegon(Audio tapes- for my dad)


• Buffy- Return to Chaos (BookCrossing)


• Buffy- Child of the Hunt (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Buffy- Gatekeeper Trilogy #2- Ghost Roads (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Buffy- The Evil that Men Do (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Buffy- Immortal (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Buffy- Gatekeeper Trilogy #1- Out of the Madhouse (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Buffy- Blooded (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Around the World in 80 Days (BookCrossing- special project)


• Where the Wild Things Are (Audio book, Read then BookCrossing)


• The Elf Queen of Shannara (BookCrossing- if no one wants it, FaerieCon)


• Fey Born (Read... maybe keep if I like it because sexy male faerie on cover is nice to look at)


• Sharpe's Havoc (Read, maybe BookCross afterwards)


• Sharpe's Tiger


• Turkish Fairy Tales & Folk Tales (Read, then BookCrossing- FaerieCon)


• Irish Fairy and Folk Tales (Read, then BookCrossing- FaerieCon)


• Teacher Man (Read)


• Me Talk Pretty One Day (BookCrossing- if no one here wants it, my LGBT bookbox/relay)


• Possible Side Effects (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Les Miserables- Illustrated Classics (Graphic Novel)


• X-Men- The Legacy Quest Trilogy: Book 1


• The Dante Club (Read, then BookCrossing)


• Fingersmith (will probably keep because I enjoyed this book so much!)


• Charmed: The Book of Shadows Soundtracktgf (CD)


• Celtic Twilight 2 (CD)


• Pocahontas Soundtrack (CD)


• Dido- No Angel (CD)


• The Sopranos Soundtrack (CD)


• The Sopranos- Peppers & Eggs Soundtrack (CD)


• Dinatopia Pop-up Book (Hardcover)


• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Graphic Novel)


• The Land of Narnia (Hardcover, gorgeous condition)

and my very favorite find this day...

• The Shadow of the Wind (I listened to this book on tape earlier this year and FELL IN LOVE with this book. I've been wanting my own copy because there are so many great lines and passages I want to re-read. And now I have a copy to love and hug and pet and read any time I want! Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty)

So not so great. 38 books for $57. But that's mostly due to the Audio Books on CD ($5 each). Some really great books, though, and I'm sooooooooo excited about my copy of Shadow of the Wind! *loves it* If you haven't ever heard of/read that book, go right out and read it right now! Totally my favorite book read this year so far and it'll be a hard one to top.

Comments

[ladykorana.livejournal.com]

What's 'Shadow of the Wind' about? Who's the author? Inquiring minds want to know... :)

If you're serious about taking requests, any chance you can set the Shannara book aside for me? I have no idea where it falls in the order of that book series, but I plan on working through them eventually.

[(Anonymous)]

This is tg at work, laughing at your icon :-)

I'll definitely set aside the Shannara books for you. No problemo. Which have you got already?

As for Shadow of the Wind *happy sigh* It's not the sort of book I typically like. It's set in Spain and it's a bit gothic in flavor. But I was so incredibly spell-bound by it. I think it found its way on my wish list because it's got a gay character in it (recommended to me by a fellow BookCrosser) and someone had an audio version of the book so contacted me to include me in a bookring. The book fell into my lap and though I wasn't sure I was going to dig it, I fell in love so quickly!

The basic plot revolves around a young boy whose father takes him to the Library of Forgotten Books. He's allowed to take one book home to read & protect and he chooses 'Shadow of the Wind' by an obscure author. The book captivates and transforms him and he becomes interested in finding out what other books the author wrote and what happened to the author. It turns out that it's nearly impossible to find other books because someone went around burning every copy in existence (revenge?). And it turns out the author was murdered suddenly many years ago. Or was he? A few people still alive had dealings with him/relationships with him/knowledge of him and the boy slowly investigates, trying to put the pieces together so that the author can rest in peace. However, he gets wrapped up in a WHOLE LOT more than he'd planned. There's a kindly fix-it guy, a teasing beautiful blind girl, a homeless man with a name like a bull fighter, a mysterious lawyer who exists only as a PO Box, a single father who runs a bookshop, a friggin INSANE police officer who scared me to death, a forbidden love (or maybe more than one!), an abandoned house that holds the key to it all, and a very special pen once rumored to have belonged to Victor Hugo himself! Apart from plot and really colorful characters, the writing (at least, the translation- I don't know Spanish so I didn't read the original) is absolutely gorgeous. It's beautifully written- some of the phrases/metaphors used really jumped out at me.

The Wikipedia plot summary gives away one of the more obvious twists (without a SPOILER ALERT!) but the page for the particular book I read through BookCrossing is spoiler-free: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5079475

[(Anonymous)]

Bah! Wish I'd signed in so I could edit. It's the CEMETERY of Forgotten Books. Bad tg for getting that wrong!

Also, thanks to Wikipedia, I've learned there will be a prequel coming out next year! Squeee! That makes my day!

Peace,
tg