Library Thing
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jadesfireYou know, I'm fairly sure that I'm a sane and sensible human being. Well, I have moments when I'm a sane and sensible human being, else I'm pretty sure I would have been sacked by now. Anyway, after years of practice, I've managed to train myself out of buying everything in sight when I walk into a bookshop.
Oh alright.
I've stopped going into bookshops. It's safer that way. I managed a swift trip round Waterstones the other day and honestly. Kid in a sweet shop has got nothing on it. Fortunately, I have something I'm saving up for at the moment, a husband with an impressive glare and no room whatsoever for new books.
Unfortunately, this means I tend to lose all sense of proportion and rationality when I go in a library. I swear I just meant to get the odd thing to read - I'm sure my writing's suffering because I don't read enough books - I absolutely did not mean to get 9 books out. And I only took the spare bag just in case.
*ahem*
So I now have the following books and can't wait to get stuck into them:
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Roma by Steven Saylor
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time by Diana and Michael Preston (the story of the Taj Mahal) [Audiobook for while I'm working]
Any suggestions where I shoudl start, or where I should go next? I tend to choose more or less at random, which often leads to only choosing authors whose names begin with A-C, since that's how far through the fiction section I get before I can't carry any more books...
Oh alright.
I've stopped going into bookshops. It's safer that way. I managed a swift trip round Waterstones the other day and honestly. Kid in a sweet shop has got nothing on it. Fortunately, I have something I'm saving up for at the moment, a husband with an impressive glare and no room whatsoever for new books.
Unfortunately, this means I tend to lose all sense of proportion and rationality when I go in a library. I swear I just meant to get the odd thing to read - I'm sure my writing's suffering because I don't read enough books - I absolutely did not mean to get 9 books out. And I only took the spare bag just in case.
*ahem*
So I now have the following books and can't wait to get stuck into them:
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
Roma by Steven Saylor
White Corridor by Christopher Fowler
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Further Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time by Diana and Michael Preston (the story of the Taj Mahal) [Audiobook for while I'm working]
Any suggestions where I shoudl start, or where I should go next? I tend to choose more or less at random, which often leads to only choosing authors whose names begin with A-C, since that's how far through the fiction section I get before I can't carry any more books...
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Date: 2008-09-02 02:24 pm (UTC)Have you read "The End Of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas? It's a really good, thinky-funny sort of book, very philosophical and very, very clever.
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Date: 2008-09-02 02:27 pm (UTC)That looks like a great book, and I can get it from the library. 85p (for a reservation) is somewhat more affordable as these things pile up...
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Date: 2008-09-02 02:33 pm (UTC)Today I actually managed to go into Smiths and buy my college stuff without looking at the books, AND into Waterstones to look for one thing I needed without losing it and buying things because of the pretty covers :0)
Mr Y is very good, but I haven't read anything else by her yet. Looks like she might be one of those little-known great authors.
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Date: 2008-09-02 02:55 pm (UTC)Re: header
I noticed that most of those shelves are empty...so you have room to fill them. hee
Suggestion:
Since you choose your books randomly, anyway, why not just read them in alphabetical order the way you got them? But in this case start with the Sandman and then do that. =D
Next time you go to the Library, start with a C-section and move on through the alphabet. Then you won't be getting books just from authors A-C. Make a little method to your madness. I have the same problem, by the way! =D