The Book Junkie Strikes Again

[ase]

About a week ago, I was discussing how to celebrate the First Paycheck with herewiss13. "Something totally frivolous," he suggested. "Socks," I mused. "It'd be nice if people stopped bugging me about the holes at the heels of my socks."

Somehow, this did not strike herewiss13 as sufficiently frivolous.

Fear not, Eric; "frivolous" spending occurred at no less than five used bookstores this afternoon. One of my non-college people wanted to hit "one or two" stores, but once we got started, the list... expanded a bit. Five hours and more than "one or two" stores later, I headed home, replete with book and fannish discussion.

Fiction
Baker, Kage: In the Garden of Iden
Baker, Kage: Sky Coyote
Baker, Kage: Mendoza in Hollywood
Barnes, John: Orbital Resonance
Blake, Katherine: The Interior Life
Cherryh, C. J.: Downbelow Station (Duplicate; lending copy)
Duane, Diane: The Door Into Fire (Corgi/UK edition) [Like I needed another copy. But this one has the less-than-awful American cover!]
King, Laurie R.: The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Le Guin, Ursula K.: A Wizard of Earthsea (Duplicate; lending copy)
L'Engle, Madeleine: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Murphy, Pat: Nadya
Myers, John Myers: Silverlock
Nix, Garth: Sabriel
O'Brian, Patrick: Post Captain
Smith, Kristine: Code of Conduct (Duplicate; lending copy)
Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Hobbit (Ted Nasmith cover)
Knight, Damon (Ed.): Orbit 4

Nonfiction
Campbell, Joseph: The Hero with a Thousand Faces [Woo-hoo!]

I think I went a little crazy, but I've been keeping an eye out for some of those books for months. Eventually, I would have done something stupid like buy half of these full price, and whinge about how I couldn't afford the other half. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

Edited to add: In retrospect, probably should have put off stocking up on books until after the move. Also, I still need to pick up packing tape and throw things (most of them books) in boxes.

Comments

[weyrlady.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only one that buys extra copies based on the cover art. ^^; I have... three copies of McCaffrey's "Dragonsong" simply because the original coverart is so incredibly gorgeous.

[ase.livejournal.com]

Good to know I'm not the only one that buys extra copies based on the cover art.

Not at all. This is my third copy of some flavor of The Door Into Fire (the other two being a trade paperback with the American cover and the Meisha Merlin reprint/omnibus Tale of the Five: the Sword and the Dragon, with the nifty Don Maitz cover (http://www.paravia.com/DonMaitz/Dragons/SwordAndDragon.html)). I've got a "loan" copy of the novels in the Earthsea trilogy plus a set with the same cover art as the library copies I read in middle school. The Hyperion cover (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553283685/ref=lib_dp_TFCV/103-5414791-6277445?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader#reader-link) sold a novel I had very neutral feelings about. (Cannot believe the same artist did the "exploding Cuisinart" Komarr cover (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671578081/ref=lib_dp_TFCV/103-5414791-6277445?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader#reader-link). Baen really doesn't know how to use the artists it hires.) And I'm on an active hunt for the Ted Nasmith LotR covers, as previously mentioned (http://www.livejournal.com/users/ase/62538.html).

I am not just a book junkie, I am becoming art geek as well. I am so doomed to blow my money on not-so-cheap prints and used novels this year.

[weyrlady.livejournal.com]

Cell collector over here? Don't even mention blowing money on art. ^^; *sighs* I'd kill the guy that got me into the hobby id I didn't like him so much.