Book Fair loot
Usually 
tamara_russo and I go to Book Week fair on the first day and, preferably, right at 18:00 when it opens. This year it was either first day (today) but a couple hours later or next week. Guess which option won.
On our scale, it's a pretty small loot. Then again, considering that last year I went over 20 books if memory serves (def. over 15) and that
tamara_russo was on a more limited budget, well. Also considering that we're not exactly not buying books through the rest of the year, and there are only so many new books coming out each year in Israel.
So, this year's loot:
- Israeli medical herbs, a lexicon
- On Translation, Paul Ricoeur (Resling Press)
- Martin Heidegger, Timothy Clark (Resling Press)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume (Resling Press)
- Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (Babel Press)
- The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey (Babel Press)
- Implied Spaces, Walter Jon Williams (East of Eden Press)
I'm... not actually interested very much in Hume, but it's basics, and I need to cover the basics. I do need an intro to Heidegger before delving into that, and I like Levinas's work so I can't ignore Heidegger. As for Paul Ricoeur, he's been referenced a lot in texts i've read in the past year.
Babel Press still win on cool, as they did last year. They have the most interesting fiction around, hands down. And as for Walter John Williams - his Metropolitan is one of my favorites, so there wasn't much of a question of getting another novel of his, even if by that point I was too tired to follow the brief properly.
What am I still doing up? Oh. I forgot to eat before leaving home, and then I didn't get to grab a bit there, and I was halfway to sugar low already when I arrived home so not eating was Not An Option. Two slices of bread with hummus ought to do it, and I also made myself a cup of tea with melissa (because I need to go to sleep here), spearmint (eating solid food within two hours of going to sleep) and a pinch of hyssop, because I love it and I don't get to use it nearly often enough because it's so strong. And writing this post did not take longer than eating and finishing the tea.
Oh, another funny thing:
tamara_russo and I have three doubles this year. (Books both of us bought.) We have vastly different tastes, so usually we'll have one double. This year we doubled on the entire fiction side of my list. (...huh. We doubled on East of Eden books before.
So it's a small list this year, but i'm really happy with all of them. And somebody give Babel Press an award for the best book covers all around. They're awesome.
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tamara_russo and I go to Book Week fair on the first day and, preferably, right at 18:00 when it opens. This year it was either first day (today) but a couple hours later or next week. Guess which option won.
On our scale, it's a pretty small loot. Then again, considering that last year I went over 20 books if memory serves (def. over 15) and that
tamara_russo was on a more limited budget, well. Also considering that we're not exactly not buying books through the rest of the year, and there are only so many new books coming out each year in Israel.
So, this year's loot:
- Israeli medical herbs, a lexicon
- On Translation, Paul Ricoeur (Resling Press)
- Martin Heidegger, Timothy Clark (Resling Press)
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume (Resling Press)
- Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (Babel Press)
- The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey (Babel Press)
- Implied Spaces, Walter Jon Williams (East of Eden Press)
I'm... not actually interested very much in Hume, but it's basics, and I need to cover the basics. I do need an intro to Heidegger before delving into that, and I like Levinas's work so I can't ignore Heidegger. As for Paul Ricoeur, he's been referenced a lot in texts i've read in the past year.
Babel Press still win on cool, as they did last year. They have the most interesting fiction around, hands down. And as for Walter John Williams - his Metropolitan is one of my favorites, so there wasn't much of a question of getting another novel of his, even if by that point I was too tired to follow the brief properly.
What am I still doing up? Oh. I forgot to eat before leaving home, and then I didn't get to grab a bit there, and I was halfway to sugar low already when I arrived home so not eating was Not An Option. Two slices of bread with hummus ought to do it, and I also made myself a cup of tea with melissa (because I need to go to sleep here), spearmint (eating solid food within two hours of going to sleep) and a pinch of hyssop, because I love it and I don't get to use it nearly often enough because it's so strong. And writing this post did not take longer than eating and finishing the tea.
Oh, another funny thing:
tamara_russo and I have three doubles this year. (Books both of us bought.) We have vastly different tastes, so usually we'll have one double. This year we doubled on the entire fiction side of my list. (...huh. We doubled on East of Eden books before.
So it's a small list this year, but i'm really happy with all of them. And somebody give Babel Press an award for the best book covers all around. They're awesome.
This entry was originally posted at http://hagar-972.dreamwidth.org/1372672.html. Please comment there using OpenID.