pocketlizard

I went to the Save the Children Booksale last night, and went a leetle bit crazy. I came home with 22 books, for $50. Sweeet…

They are, in no particular order:

• Emma, by Jane Austen - I haven’t read this one yet, it was next on my list.
• Brave New World, by Aldrous Huxley - This was always next to 1984 on the bookshelf at home, so I always group the two together. We have two copies of 1984, but didn’t have this. This was the only book I was specifically looking for at the book sale, and I had to go through almost every box in the ‘classics’ section before I found it.
• Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card - I read this for English in year 8, and was quite shocked by the ending. It was particularly annoying because I’d quite liked it up to that point. I deliberately avoided it and its sequels after that, but lately I’ve thought I should give it another go (now that I’m a bit older and less easily shocked :p).
• Diaspora, by Greg Egan - this book seriously messed with my head (as did all the other Greg Egan books that I’ve read :p)
• Creative Clothing Construction, by Allyne Bane (1966) - this has all the details of how to actually do the stuff that patterns tell you to do - just what I need.
• Teach Yourself Dressmaking, by Isabel Horner (1959) - this one has a bit of the basic stuff too, and also how to do some fancier things
• Polgara the Sorceress, Castle of Wizardry (book 4 of the Belgariad), and the entire Mallorean, all by David Eddings - all I need now is book 5 of the Belgariad, and the Tamuli series, and Redemption of Althalus, and I’ll have the whole lot!
• The Getting of Wisdom, by Henry Handel Richardson - because I vaguely remember being interested in reading it, and hey, it was only $2.. :p
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - for similar reasons, except this one was 50c.
• Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein - ditto.
• The Silmarillion, by JRR Tolkien - because I’ll never read it under a library’s time limit! This is a book that takes serious time and effort to read. My previous attempt didn’t get far.
• Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery - to start my collection of the series, and because although you can read them all online, it’s nicer to have a printed book, especially if it’s an old-style hard cover one.
• Coming of Age in Samoa and Culture and Commitment by Margaret Mead - for my little anthropology collection. I haven’t heard of the second one before and don’really know what it’s about, but omg! 50c books!!!! :p
• The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris - I read this as a teenager & thought it was really cool. I’ve since read The Descent of Woman, by Elaine Morgan, and decided that I like her ideas better, but The Naked Ape is still one I wanted for my human evolution collection.
• The Making of Mankind, by Richard Leakey - also for my human evolution collection.

Now all I need is some more bookshelves! I will take a picture of the pile and try to figure out a way to post it…