Mayor ,'Chosen'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I don't need to own books unless I plan to reread them.
Exactly why I give so many away.
But without a convenient library routine, I keep buying.
However, between msbelle (I owe her a shipment too) and Kat, maybe I could avoid setting myself up with late fees.
I like to own books. The size of my apartment and of my paycheck keep me going back to the library. Given unlimited funds and bookcases, I would go to my favorite bookstore and buy about every third book. Then I would take them home. Then I would rub my hands over them and cackle.
What?
I mean, I've liked a lot of books this year, but not in that "My precious...shiny. Want!" way that makes them hard to take back. I am glad half had "A Year On The Killing Streets" though cause I read it five times.
Mistaken Zygote Theory
amyparker, please to explain?
I lurve the library. It's where all of the scripts live. Much cheaper than ordering from Samuel French and Dramatist's.
I've been known to leave garbage bags of them on the sidewalk.
I trade mine in at used bookstores. Helps pay for my book addiction. Also, I donate the rest to libraries..hehe!
You ended up in the wrong family and it's nobody's fault.(Mistaken Zygote) I heart half.com.
Now I'm in love with Book Crossing.
The Crusie's got to go, but perhaps after I've read some more.
erika beat me to it.
Somebody tell me that if I put the porch swing up, I may not spend the rest of the afternoon reading gardening books and drinking lemonade? The party is Friday, and there's too much to do.
I'm sorry...apart from my mom, I'm a total MZ, is all. There's a whole chapter in "Women who Run With The Wolves" on it.
From the last 6 months, I have really liked the following:
Mystic River
Coraline
Middlesex
Fast Women
A Gracious Plenty
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A Cold Day for Murder
I have liked enough to keep them (or would if they were mine to keep):
Cold Mountain
You are not a a stranger here
Play with Fire
I have started a lending circle for my Crusie's and will do so with my Lippmans and Lehane's also. Everything else either gets sold on half.com or released ala bookcrossing.com.