Queereaders discussion

Alright folks are you all ready to hear about my excursion today?? I have just recently found out we had a used book store here on Maui. Let me tell you I have never been to a Friends of the Library bookstore so I was kind of leery, but the siren call of 10 cents per book overcame my fears. For $2.40 I got:

The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
The Crimson Petal and the White
Empire Falls
The Forgotten Man
Sons of Fortune
The Name of the Rose
The White Tiger
Love in the Time of Cholera
Simple Genius
The Murder Room
Cold Mountain
The Complete Sherlock Holmes All 4 Novels & 56 Short Stories
Hannibal Rising
The Jury
False Impression

I spent $2.40 on the books , then donated $5.00 to the cause, so my whole trip was only $7.40 !!!!!!!! I am stoked about a few of them Sherlock Holmes, Crimson Petal, White Tiger YAY !!! There will be more visits now that I am acquainted. The only book that was more than 10 cents was the Complete Sherlock Holmes , and that was only $1.00 .

That's a great haul, Scott! I've yet to read Toni Morrison. Let me know what you think about The Crimson Petal and the White. It's been on my shelf a few months and I suspect its size has kept me from picking it up.

Since we're on the subject, here's what I got this week from Bookmooch and PaperbackSwap:

Cloak of Magic by S.A. Rule
The Call by B.A. Tortuga
Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim
Homeplace by Beth Massie
Sins of the Flesh by Don Davis

Bought with my $25 gift certificate from Borders:

Tangle Girls by Nicole Kimberling (editor)
Maloney's Law by Anne Brooke

Nancy wrote: "That's a great haul, Scott! I've yet to read Toni Morrison. Let me know what you think about The Crimson Petal and the White. It's been on my shelf a few months and I suspect its si..."
I suggest you to start with Beloved as it is about a ghost.

Then Song of Solomon as it is about a man who grows a set of wings.

And it has been said that Sula is a lesbian romance if you read between the lines about the intense friendship.

Be warned, Morrison is a genius writer with a gift for language. I've been rendered numb with awe of her kinetic prose.

I got three books of short stories:

After the Quake

The Wild Creatures

Carried Away A Selection of Stories

Nancy wrote: "That's a great haul, Scott! I've yet to read Toni Morrison. Let me know what you think about The Crimson Petal and the White. It's been on my shelf a few months and I suspect its si..."
Oh my, what an interesting book! Tell me about it when you read it.

Scott, the Murder Room is particularly good, though I love everything that P.D. James writes.

Thanks, Nancy - hope you enjoy Maloney's Law!

Hugs

Axxx

My last book splurge was at Christmas... hoorah for gift cards:

The Zookeeper's Wife A War Story
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History
In Her Absence
Slow Man
and
(Sooooo don't bother with this one...)Letters from Pemberly

How do you like those books?

Zookeeper's Wife started slowly, but got better-ish... probably would have returned it before I finished if it had been a library book...

Slow Man was bizarre, as Coetzee's books tend to be... my partner saw loads of political analogy between South Africa as a developing democracy and the man with no leg that refuses help... but i didn't get it... just thought it was odd.

In Her Absence was less enlightening than I thought it would be, but definitely true to life in terms of the funny little things that happen in your head when you're in a relationship...

And Letters from Pemberly was rubbish. I could have done a better job with it. It did get me through a particularly harrowing flight from Austin to Philly though as my seething anger at its inanity took my mind off the turbulence...

Are you a Philly girl?

nope... but my brother-in-law lives there, so spent the hols there.

Aha!

Ah you in Philly? Go have a burger at the The Good Dog.

The Good Dog?? Where's that? I eat burgers at Five Guys.

I think it's South 15th street... downtown.

I need to check it out. I've lived here for 10 years and I never knew about this place! Thanks, Maha.

Anne wrote: "Thanks, Nancy - hope you enjoy Maloney's Law!

Hugs

Axxx"

I'm sure I will...looking forward to reading it!

I'm on vacation in Montreal and couldn't resist a little book splurge:

Rats Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan

Since I both loathe and am fascinated by these hardy city inhabitants, I couldn't resist.

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay

I was looking for something with a uniquely Canadian flavor by a writer who is not extremely well known abroad. It sounds like it's full of quirky characters and one reviewer makes a comparison to Annie Proulx.

Another little splurge at the McGill University bookstore sale table:

Leonard Cohen's The Favorite Game
Elizabeth Hay's Small Change

I saw Metropolitan Lovers by Julie Abraham, which looked fascinating, but was unwilling to cough up $31.

And This Land The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America by Anthony Flint looked interesting too.

Wow, you actually went to McGill University bookstore! If you aren't a bibliophile then I don't know what you are. :)

Nancy, I LOVED the Rats book. He also has a really good one about the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

I have had a few mini splurges myself, I got
In the Woods
The Unquiet
The Reapers
Seven Deadly Wonders
Fool Moon
The Blade Itself
Life of Pi

Still working on Drood A Novel.

I loved In the Woods by French. I also loved her second one, the Likeness... very good stuff. Let me know what you think! I wanted to read Drood but it looked rather long.

I just bought Emptiness The Foundation of Buddhist Thought. Maybe I am getting a little esoteric?

My library charges $1 for hardcovers and $.50 for paperbacks (mm or trade).

I just ordered The Lost District based on a GR friend's review.

There's something profoundly wrong with me. I shouldn't be buying any more books when there's not enough shelf space to store the ones I have.

I'm not sure if I want to read about rats, or should I start Naked in the Rain?

ScottK,

I just picked up Drood at the library, though I picked it up on Audio. The reader is very good, I think but it is 24 disks long and it will take me until October to listen to the whole thing because I listen in my car! It certainly is starting out good. I have a trip to visit mom on Memorial Day, so I will be in the car for a six hour drive both ways then, so I will be able to listen to quite a bit of it.

Our library stopped selling books. They decided that they could make more money by boxing them up and sending them to an out sourcing place that can price them accordingly. So, even we members of the staff are not allowed to buy them anymore, we have to go online and search there. Egads.

But it is better for the library so how can I complain?

My most recent purchases:

Martyrs & Monsters by Robert Dunbar
Olive Kitteridge A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout

Trades from PaperbackSwap:

The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
Omega Games by S.L. Viehl

E-Books:

Deadly Nightshade by Victor J. Banis

Yikes .....I forgot about this thread. I had been away I had to go to Pa. for a Family emergency. IN response :
Kate:10 cent books are great but now I get panic attacks because I have MORE on my TBR pile.
Doug: I liked In the Woods Ok, I think it could have been better. I wish they would have tied up some of Detective Ryan's loose ends. I will have to check into The Likeness A Novel, Drood I actually am taking a break from for awhile. I am about half way there but needed something different.

Yesterday I purchased The Magus
and The Monster of Florence

Scott, I am with you on Drood. I managed to listen to 15 of the 24 CDs and I had to return it... and I am going to get it out again and finish but I needed to do something else for a while. I admit it is good, just very long.

I just had a CD splurge. I bought Chess in concert, the new Broadway recording of HAIR and the new Broadway recording of Rock of Ages.

Borders was really scaling back their CD's to almost nothing. I ended up going to Barnes and Noble. I had to order Rock of Ages online because they did not have it in the store but it was only 9.99 online!

Yeah it is really well written it's just soooooo freakin LONG.

My recent Amazon splurge:

Hard Candy by Amanda Young
Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (several of my GR friends enjoy the Hard Case Crime series, so I thought I'd give it a try)
Conquering Venus by Collin Kelley
Small Favor by Jim Butcher
Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand by Carrie Vaughn

Kindle books for my iPod:
Queer Legends Queer Wolf
The Curtis Reincarnation

Just got my Amazon orders today:

Tales of the Madman Underground An Historical Romance 1973 by John Barnes
Daddy's Little Boy by Alan Holloway
Complementary Colors by Kate Evans

A few more for my iPod:
Feral
Secrets
Camp Hell

Loved the one by John Barnes! I hope you like it.

In the mail today from Amazon:

Remastering Jerna by Ann Somerville
Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer by Mari SanGiovanni

and a few Kindle titles:

A Stranger's Touch by Anne Brooke
River of Tears by Michele L. Montgomery
HELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle Hansen

Stopped at Border's on the way home from work and picked up:

Just bought two new Kindle books for my iPhone:

For anyone interested, I'm hosting a giveaway for Special Delivery until tomorrow night on my blog. http://dancing-dove.blogspot.com/2010...

Just ordered a few more books:



Dennis Cooper scares me a little, but I keep hearing good things about his work.

Woo hoo!

I just found an e-copy of Letters to Montgomery Clift at the Sony Reader store for only $4.74!

Ha, Nancy. I just started reading a 'new' hardcover edition of Letters to Montgomery Clift which I found I paid $4.61 for including S&H ;-)

I started this last nite. At 1st I didn't think I was going to like it, but really got sucked in and stayed up too late :yawn:

Kernos wrote: "At 1st I didn't think I was going to like it, but really got sucked in and stayed up too late :yawn:..."

I love books that keep me up late! How many pages does your copy have, Kernos? My e-copy seems a little short.

It's 244 pages, Nancy. And at about 1:30 last nit I was not comprehending what I was reading and had to stop with 3.5 pages left—arghhhh.

What e-reader do you use? Some, like the Kindle use dynamic page numbering systems which is confusing, I think. But, if you use a big font size, eg, there will be more virtual pages than using a tiny font size.

I have decided to stop using Paperback Swap, and just donating my books to the library. The problem with Paperback swap is that I get rid of one (finally) and I end up with another one.. That doesn't seem to help make space in my bookshelves.

And often, the books I REALLY DESPARATELY want to own, they don't carry, so I end up getting a book that I wanted to read but there is no reason I can't just get it from the library (I don't really need to own it.) Because, other than Agatha Christie, I never seem to reread books.

Nancy wrote: "Woo hoo!

I just found an e-copy of Letters to Montgomery Clift at the Sony Reader store for only $4.74!"

Wow. I didn't know it was available on e-reader. Very cool.

Kernos wrote: "Ha, Nancy. I just started reading a 'new' hardcover edition of Letters to Montgomery Clift which I found I paid $4.61 for including S&H ;-)

I started this last nite. At 1st I didn..."

I love this book.

Doug wrote: "I have decided to stop using Paperback Swap, and just donating my books to the library. The problem with Paperback swap is that I get rid of one (finally) and I end up with another one.. That does..."

All this year I've been donating non-keepers to my hometown library. I figure I could re-sell them, but sending them to the library makes me feel better. =-)