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

Re: Rachmaninoff rules!

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Yes he does. You made a good guess about how much I'd like the CD. Both the concerto and the "Rhapsody on a Theme..." are great, though the "Variation" tracks are so short I'm tempted to copy the music files to my hard drive, splice them together, and burn a second CD with longer tracks to avoid the occasional hiccup at track changes. The music's really good, and the hiccups are painfully evident.

I was wondering how long it would take you to play the Rachmaninoff disk...

Sometimes, anticipation makes something even more enjoyable when you actually get around to using or doing that thing. I suspect I wouldn't have half as much fun at conventions, for example, if I didn't have time beforehand to think about all the enjoyable stuff I'd be doing at them.