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Book loot!

There was a library sale ^_^. And since the bookstore is so close to this library, the library ends up getting tons of books that we don't end up buying as donations from other people. So the overall quality of the books there was pretty good. I also had some pretty funny moments in which I was looking through the books and thinking, yup, this one we rarely take, yup, M (in charge of the fiction section) has way too much of these, oh yeah, it's all the Oprah books.

I ended up getting:

Dan Brown, Angels and Demons (to give to my dad or sell to the bookstore)
Greg Critser, Fatland (to scare myself? Because Fast Food Nation has awakened an interest in this subject now)
Michael Cunningham, The Hours (I feel I should read this sometime)
Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (I wrote a critical biography on James Joyce back in high school and idolized Ellmann and his biography of Joyce, so why not?)
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate (Another one I feel I should read. Plus, food!)
Matthews Masayuki Hamabata, Crested Kimono (Japanese business families... not sure how good it will be, given that it was written in the eighties, but might as well)
Diana Wynne Jones, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Vol. 1 (Charmed Life and The Lives of Christopher Chant) (I have, but the condition was too good to resist)
Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions (looks vaguely interesting)
Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country (feel I should read more Japanese literature)
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door (like new copy! Luckily I have found that while I own it, this one matches the other copies of the Murray family books that I own)
Ruth L. Ozeki, My Year of Meats (looked interesting)
Sharon Kay Penman, The Sunne in Splendor (I keep hearing this title, or the movie, or something. And am on a bit of a historical fiction kick, thanks to Dunnett)
Saito Chiho, Revolutionary Girl Utena, vol. 3
Mark Salzman, Lost in Place (some customer at the store was looking for him, and it looked interesting)
Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness
Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter
Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (haha, now that I have bought three Sayers books, I shall be forced to read the entire series!)
Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Person at work recced it)
Paula Volsky, Illusion
Paula Volsky, The Wolf of Winter (I have no idea how I heard of her... through Amazon lists, I suspect, so I shall see if they are any good)
Jane Yolen, Briar Rose (read before, am glad I found it, though I suspect it will not be a frequent reread due to depressing-ness)

Free books:

If anyone wants L'Engle's A Wind in the Door (slightly beat up, mass market with green cover portraying Proginoskes), Utena book 3 (English trans, very good condition), or DWJ's Chronicles of Chrestomanci vol. 1 (mass market, very good condition, the one with the cat on the cover), drop a comment!

Also, knullabulla, I think your email with your address got lost or something =(. Could you email me your address again at oyceter at gmail dot com, and I'll ship you Wise Child. Thanks!