because I can't think of anything else to write at the moment:
WHAT I BOUGHT AT THE BOOKSALES
(in no particular order--some are books that I've previously owned/ already read, but I've either lost or given away, but most either just looked interesting, were by authors I've enjoyed other works by, or had cool covers
The Sun Also Rises, E. Hemingway
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H. P. Lovecraft
Jackson's Dilemna--Iris Murdoch
The Stories of John Cheever
Goon Show Classics vols. 1&2 (audiotape)
Fawlty Towers vols. 1 & 2 (audio)
Alan Bennet Double Bill (BBC radio Plays: Forty Years On & A woman of No Importance)
Noel Coward (BBC--Private Lives & Hayfever)
The Mayor of Casterbridge--Thoimas Hardy
Recapitulation--Wallace Stegner
The Recognitions--William Gaddis
House of Sand & Fog--Andre Dubus III
Where Angels Fear to Tread--E. M. Forster
The Old Beauty & Others--Willa Cather
Lanterns & Lances--James Thurber
Manifold Space--&
Manifold Origin--Stephen Baxter
Crossing to Safety--&
Second Growth-Wallace Stegner
The Precipice--Ben Bova
The Theory & Practice of Rivers & New Poems--Jim Harrison
100 Great Short Short Scirence Fiction Stories--Isaac Asimove ed.
American Short Story Masterpieces-Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks ed.
Darwin's Radio--Greg Bear
The Executioners Song--Norman Mailer
Grave Mistake (& Two Other Great Mysteries)--Ngaio Marsh
Tao of Chaos (DNA & the I Ching)--Katya Walter
Harlow (an Intimate Biography)--Irving Shulman
Wild Mountain Thyme--Rosamunde Pilcher
Mandala--Pearl S. Buck
The Alien Years--Robert Silverberg
The Wapshot Chronicle--John Cheever
Kiln People--David Brin
Hard Times--Charles Dickens
Robots & Empire--Isaac Asimov
Night--Elie Wiesel
Crisis in the Pacific (The Battles For the Phillipine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them)--Gerald Astor
Driving Mister Albert (a Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain) --Michael Paterniti
Powder Burn--Carl Hiaasen & Bill Montalbano
The Voyage Out--Virginia Woolf
The Garden of Eden--Ernest Hemingway
The Big Sleep--Raymond Chandler
The Sin Eater--Alice Thomas Ellis
All She Was Worth--Miyuki Miyabe
Star Risk, LTD.--Chris Bunch
Ship Fever (Stories)--Andrea Barrett
Blood Music--Greg Bear
A Man on The Moon--Andrew Chaikin
The Monster Show (A Cultural History of Horror)-- David J. Skal
Pawns in the Game (The International Conspiracy Explained)--William Guy Carr
Jung & the Story of our Time--Laurens van der Post
Winter's Tales--Isak Dinesen
The Complete Works of O. Henry (vol. 1)
The Complete Toastmaster--Herbert V. Prochnow
The Tortilla Curtain--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rule of the Bone--Russel Banks
Essential Works of John Stuart Mill
King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table--Roger Lancelyn Green
The Day the Music Died--Ed Gorman
Creating America (Reading & Writing Arguments)--Joyce Moser & Ann Watters
Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
Everything's Eventual--Stephen King
I Sing the Body Electric--&
Dandelion Wine--Ray Bradbury
The Real Thing (play)--Tom Stoppard
Selected Poetry & Prose of Blake
Mysteries of Winterthurn--&
Foxfire--Joyce Carol Oates
Cosmic Trigger--Robert Anton Wilson
The French Lieutenant's Woman--John Fowles
Tempest-Tost--&
The Deptford Trilogy--Robertson Davies
A Natural History of the Senses--Diane Ackerman
Drag (a History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts)--Roger Baker
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapter--Julian Barnes
a Czech/English Dictionary
The Twenty-Seventh City--Jonathan Franzen
Stranger in a Strange Land--&
Starship Troopers--Robert Heinlein
Leibniz: Selections
Seven Serpents & Seven Moons--Demetrio Agilera-Malta
a map of Wisconsin
Coming of Age in Samoa--Margaret Mead
The Balcony (play)--Jean Genet
New & Collected Poems (1917-1976)--Archibald MacLeish
Chekhov:a Spirit Set Free--V.S. Pritchett
the Best American Short Stories 2001--Barbara Kingsolver ed.
Dreamland (Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell & Area 51)--Phil Patton
Ripley Under Water--Patricia Highsmith
The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
The Big Aiiieeeee! (An Anthology of Chinese American & Japanese American Literature)--Chan, Chin, Fusao Inada, & Wong ed.
Written by Herself (Autobiographies of American Women: an Anthology)--Conway ed.
Valdez is Coming--Elmore Leonard
The Goebbels Diaries--Lochner ed.
The Literary Journalists--Sims ed.
The Autumn of the Patriarch--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carpenter's Gothic--William Gaddis
Cadillac Jukebox--James Lee Burke
Master the SAT
Getting into the ACT
Riven Rock--&
Without a Hero (& Other Stories)--T, Coraghessan Boyle
Washed by a Wave of Wind (Science Fiction fron the Corridor)--Bell ed.
Essential Saltes--Don Webb
Moo--Jane Smiley
The Age of Enlightenment (Basic Writings of Locke, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Condillac, Hamann & Others)--Berlin ed.
Under the Sign of Saturn--Susan Sontag
Cryptonomicon--Neal Stephenson (currently being read & enjoyed)
Torquemada & the Spanish Inquisition--Rafael Sabatini
Nothing More Than Murder--Jim Thompson (score!)
The White House Transcripts --NT Times
The Story of Psychology--Morton Hunt
--all this for a little less than 60 bucks!
I LOVE library book sales!
WHAT I BOUGHT AT THE BOOKSALES
(in no particular order--some are books that I've previously owned/ already read, but I've either lost or given away, but most either just looked interesting, were by authors I've enjoyed other works by, or had cool covers
The Sun Also Rises, E. Hemingway
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H. P. Lovecraft
Jackson's Dilemna--Iris Murdoch
The Stories of John Cheever
Goon Show Classics vols. 1&2 (audiotape)
Fawlty Towers vols. 1 & 2 (audio)
Alan Bennet Double Bill (BBC radio Plays: Forty Years On & A woman of No Importance)
Noel Coward (BBC--Private Lives & Hayfever)
The Mayor of Casterbridge--Thoimas Hardy
Recapitulation--Wallace Stegner
The Recognitions--William Gaddis
House of Sand & Fog--Andre Dubus III
Where Angels Fear to Tread--E. M. Forster
The Old Beauty & Others--Willa Cather
Lanterns & Lances--James Thurber
Manifold Space--&
Manifold Origin--Stephen Baxter
Crossing to Safety--&
Second Growth-Wallace Stegner
The Precipice--Ben Bova
The Theory & Practice of Rivers & New Poems--Jim Harrison
100 Great Short Short Scirence Fiction Stories--Isaac Asimove ed.
American Short Story Masterpieces-Raymond Carver & Tom Jenks ed.
Darwin's Radio--Greg Bear
The Executioners Song--Norman Mailer
Grave Mistake (& Two Other Great Mysteries)--Ngaio Marsh
Tao of Chaos (DNA & the I Ching)--Katya Walter
Harlow (an Intimate Biography)--Irving Shulman
Wild Mountain Thyme--Rosamunde Pilcher
Mandala--Pearl S. Buck
The Alien Years--Robert Silverberg
The Wapshot Chronicle--John Cheever
Kiln People--David Brin
Hard Times--Charles Dickens
Robots & Empire--Isaac Asimov
Night--Elie Wiesel
Crisis in the Pacific (The Battles For the Phillipine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them)--Gerald Astor
Driving Mister Albert (a Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain) --Michael Paterniti
Powder Burn--Carl Hiaasen & Bill Montalbano
The Voyage Out--Virginia Woolf
The Garden of Eden--Ernest Hemingway
The Big Sleep--Raymond Chandler
The Sin Eater--Alice Thomas Ellis
All She Was Worth--Miyuki Miyabe
Star Risk, LTD.--Chris Bunch
Ship Fever (Stories)--Andrea Barrett
Blood Music--Greg Bear
A Man on The Moon--Andrew Chaikin
The Monster Show (A Cultural History of Horror)-- David J. Skal
Pawns in the Game (The International Conspiracy Explained)--William Guy Carr
Jung & the Story of our Time--Laurens van der Post
Winter's Tales--Isak Dinesen
The Complete Works of O. Henry (vol. 1)
The Complete Toastmaster--Herbert V. Prochnow
The Tortilla Curtain--T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rule of the Bone--Russel Banks
Essential Works of John Stuart Mill
King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table--Roger Lancelyn Green
The Day the Music Died--Ed Gorman
Creating America (Reading & Writing Arguments)--Joyce Moser & Ann Watters
Memoirs of a Geisha--Arthur Golden
Everything's Eventual--Stephen King
I Sing the Body Electric--&
Dandelion Wine--Ray Bradbury
The Real Thing (play)--Tom Stoppard
Selected Poetry & Prose of Blake
Mysteries of Winterthurn--&
Foxfire--Joyce Carol Oates
Cosmic Trigger--Robert Anton Wilson
The French Lieutenant's Woman--John Fowles
Tempest-Tost--&
The Deptford Trilogy--Robertson Davies
A Natural History of the Senses--Diane Ackerman
Drag (a History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts)--Roger Baker
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapter--Julian Barnes
a Czech/English Dictionary
The Twenty-Seventh City--Jonathan Franzen
Stranger in a Strange Land--&
Starship Troopers--Robert Heinlein
Leibniz: Selections
Seven Serpents & Seven Moons--Demetrio Agilera-Malta
a map of Wisconsin
Coming of Age in Samoa--Margaret Mead
The Balcony (play)--Jean Genet
New & Collected Poems (1917-1976)--Archibald MacLeish
Chekhov:a Spirit Set Free--V.S. Pritchett
the Best American Short Stories 2001--Barbara Kingsolver ed.
Dreamland (Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell & Area 51)--Phil Patton
Ripley Under Water--Patricia Highsmith
The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh
The Big Aiiieeeee! (An Anthology of Chinese American & Japanese American Literature)--Chan, Chin, Fusao Inada, & Wong ed.
Written by Herself (Autobiographies of American Women: an Anthology)--Conway ed.
Valdez is Coming--Elmore Leonard
The Goebbels Diaries--Lochner ed.
The Literary Journalists--Sims ed.
The Autumn of the Patriarch--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carpenter's Gothic--William Gaddis
Cadillac Jukebox--James Lee Burke
Master the SAT
Getting into the ACT
Riven Rock--&
Without a Hero (& Other Stories)--T, Coraghessan Boyle
Washed by a Wave of Wind (Science Fiction fron the Corridor)--Bell ed.
Essential Saltes--Don Webb
Moo--Jane Smiley
The Age of Enlightenment (Basic Writings of Locke, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Condillac, Hamann & Others)--Berlin ed.
Under the Sign of Saturn--Susan Sontag
Cryptonomicon--Neal Stephenson (currently being read & enjoyed)
Torquemada & the Spanish Inquisition--Rafael Sabatini
Nothing More Than Murder--Jim Thompson (score!)
The White House Transcripts --NT Times
The Story of Psychology--Morton Hunt
--all this for a little less than 60 bucks!
I LOVE library book sales!