books purchased recently

[truepenny]

Because people asked.


Used bookstore sale again.

David Bergman, ed. Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction.

Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards, Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England

Carol Bly. The Passionate, Accurate Story. (signed)

Martin Booth, Opium: A History.

Roald Dahl, Going Solo.

Christopher Fry. Three Plays: The Firstborn, Thor, with Angels, A Sleep of Prisoners.

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm.

Mary S. Lovell. Straight on till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham.

Paul Monette. Becoming a Man.

Patrick O'Brian. Master and Commander.

Thomas Love Peacock. Nightmare Abbey.

Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars

---. Awakenings.

Saki. The Chronicles of Clovis.

Antoine de St.-Exupery. Night Flight.

---. Wind, Sand, and Stars.

Joanna L. Stratton. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier.

John Toland. The Great Dirigibles: Their Triumphs and Disasters.


In the dealers' room at Minicon.

Bought used:

Pamela Dean. The Dubious Hills.

Everything else is from Dreamhaven.

Leah Cutter. Paper Mage.

Roald Dahl. Boy.

Pamela Dean. The Secret Country.

---. The Hidden Land.

---. The Whim of the Dragon.

Peter Dickinson. The Kin.

---. The Ropemaker.

John M. Ford. Heat of Fusion and Other Stories.

Robin McKinley. A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories.

Caroline Stevermer, A Scholar of Magics (which my husband saw and promptly said, "Well, you've solved the problem of what I read next.")

J. C. Rez, ed. One and Twenty Poems by Grace Lord Stoke.

Jo Walton. Tooth and Claw.

Laurel Winter. A Galaxy in a Jar.

Comments

[heresluck]

:::rubs hands together:::

:::cackles with glee:::

You are so wise to have offered borrowing privileges *before* I stormed the bookcases.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I am sooooooo jealous of your Fry!

Also of a few other things, but we intend to hit Lake St. later this week and come out of it with some of the same stuff. It's the Fry that's hard to find.

[pameladean]

I can lend you some Fry, but you have to give it back.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I return books very well. You can ask Stella. I now have a basket for books to be returned. It sits just inside the library and makes me feel like an organized, responsible, adult-type person.

So yes, I would love to borrow some of your Fry. It seems like a good thing, since I only read him because of you anyway. We'll have to figure out what you've got that I haven't read.

[larryhammer]

Ooo — report on Thor, with Angels when you're read it? I've never been able to track down a copy.

---L.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

In a moment of freaky synchronicity, I too recently got Fry's Three Plays. I had them all, but some only as those paper-covered performance script things.

If I ignore you while I peruse your bookcase, you know it's an involuntary reaction and not a deliberate insult, right?

[oracne.livejournal.com]

If I ignore you while I peruse your bookcase, you know it's an involuntary reaction and not a deliberate insult, right?

It's a bookworm thing that bookworms understand...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

If I ignore you while I peruse your bookcase, you know it's an involuntary reaction and not a deliberate insult, right?

Dude, it's what I'd do in your living room. So, yeah. I get it.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Virginia Berridge and Griffith Edwards, Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England

Oooh.

I also recently bought the Firebird reprints of the Pamela Dean trilogy, from Poison Pen Press at Lunacon.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Let us know what you think of Going Solo, please. Been wanting to find a copy of that for ages.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

thank you for buying some firebirds!

i bought $60 worth of tor titles, myself, much to my amusement.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

If you're going to reprint people like Pamela and like Peter Dickinson, I really don't see that I have a choice in the matter. :)