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In preparation for moving, I am currently undergoing a debooking. This is a painful process, as it involves deciding which of my babies I want to give up for adoption in the nearest charity shop.
(currently: most of my Sharpe novels, because if you've read one, you've read all of them, Robin Hobb's oeuvre - 'let's see if we can fuck with Fitz even more!, and assorted others, but not such works of classic literature as Red Dwarf novelisations. Also, not my Pratchett hardbacks, because if anyone tries to take those off me, I will break their hands, even when I have well-meaning duplicates. Then again, I am giving away the last two Science of Discworlds, as they annoyed me greatly...)
It is a process I have liberally lubricated with a rather nice bottle of Pinot Grigo. Hence the even less sense-making than usual.
Among the books up for adoption is an uncorrected proof of Clare Clark's The Great Stink. I'm not sure why I was given it, but it's an interesting book, and you don't come across many bound uncorrected proofs (at least, I don't). I have no great affinity for the 1800s, the Crimean war or the Victorian period in general (hence the giving away), but it's a good story, good (highly descriptive) prose and an interesting concept.
Anyone want it? Just say the word.
ETA: Do Want!. And I could totally make it myself too. If I were allowed near power tools, at least.
(currently: most of my Sharpe novels, because if you've read one, you've read all of them, Robin Hobb's oeuvre - 'let's see if we can fuck with Fitz even more!, and assorted others, but not such works of classic literature as Red Dwarf novelisations. Also, not my Pratchett hardbacks, because if anyone tries to take those off me, I will break their hands, even when I have well-meaning duplicates. Then again, I am giving away the last two Science of Discworlds, as they annoyed me greatly...)
It is a process I have liberally lubricated with a rather nice bottle of Pinot Grigo. Hence the even less sense-making than usual.
Among the books up for adoption is an uncorrected proof of Clare Clark's The Great Stink. I'm not sure why I was given it, but it's an interesting book, and you don't come across many bound uncorrected proofs (at least, I don't). I have no great affinity for the 1800s, the Crimean war or the Victorian period in general (hence the giving away), but it's a good story, good (highly descriptive) prose and an interesting concept.
Anyone want it? Just say the word.
ETA: Do Want!. And I could totally make it myself too. If I were allowed near power tools, at least.