booking it
Hey, it's time to post something! Thank god for microblogging, fatshionista and the seasonal renewal of X-Entertainment, is alls I can say.
Check-check out my goodies from this year's St. Rose book sale this summer:
Have I read any of it yet? No, but let's talk about them anyway! The Orson Scott Card and Dale Carnegie book were for my buddy, he also got a How to Survive Anything handbook from the next sale I hit. Everything else is mine, all mine! Muahahahaha!
Sorry, I've been generally declutterifying my life lately, but sometimes I need to indulge my hoardery tendencies. I supplement it with massive doses of Clean House, Hoarders and How Clean is Your House aversion therapy. But they'll get my books from they pry them from my cold, dead hands, after they find me under the pile that's toppled on top of me.
Back on topic! The food processor and Cooking with Claudine cookbooks are nods to my recent obsessions with my food processor and public television food shows, respectively. My nearest and dearest have had to accustom themeselves with my first name basis references to Julia, although I have yet to get around to seeing Julie and Julia. The House on Mango Street is really big in Chicano literature history; I bought the Pablo Neruda collection without even realizing the greatest part, which is that every poem is listed in the original text along with the English translation. Very cool. East of Eden filled the "classic I've never read" category, and I was super jazzed to find a pulp noirish paperback by Stephen King. I have a whole collection of genuinely old school paperbacks from the 2005 sale by John D. MacDonald. Haven't got around to reading those either, sadly.
So, this weekend I went all the way up to Santa Barbara to volunteer (and shop) at the annual Planned Parenthood book sale:
Apparently I should have made it to the beginning of the sale, they told me it was only 30% of what it once was by the day I made it there. Even still it was far bigger than the St. Rose sale. More varied selection too, so my selections might appear to skew somewhat towards the scandalous? Whatever. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which at just 175 pages I'm about 1/3 of the way through already, sold me on the jacket blurb: "If Flannery O'Connor and Rita Mae Brown has collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity" etc etc. I've never read Rita Mae Brown but the Flannery O'Connor reference is certainly apt, with the dark humor and religious imagery threaded through everything. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers is a "history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America", which I got again because of my interest in pulp. Thanks Quentin Tarantino!
The Anne Rice and Gregory Maguire ones are similar in that they're both a take on fairy tales. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is the first in the series of Anne Rice's porny take on Sleeping Beauty. What I really had my eye out for was something in the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris, because half a dozen episodes of True Blood have been more than enough to convert me, but I didn't have any luck finding them so I settled for this. Mirror Mirror is a take on Snow White; I absolutely loved Wicked but I haven't read the sequels so I'm jazzed to read something else by Gregory Maguire.
Night Shift I got because of the cover art and because I can basically never leave one of these sales without a Stephen King book. Interesting (to me) to point out, the introduction is written by John D. MacDonald. Organizing for Dummies is self-explanatory, I hope, and finally we get to my coolest find: Choice Sometimes Chance: Recipes from the Kitchen of a Planned Parenthood Person. Circa 1980!
I love vintage cookbooks, especially this kind of self-published one, but if I bought every one I saw...I couldn't resist this one, though. It has the most amazing punny recipes:
From a Smorgasbord of Choice to Molding Public Opinion Salads and Mushrooming Support Soup! So awesome.
Check-check out my goodies from this year's St. Rose book sale this summer:
Have I read any of it yet? No, but let's talk about them anyway! The Orson Scott Card and Dale Carnegie book were for my buddy, he also got a How to Survive Anything handbook from the next sale I hit. Everything else is mine, all mine! Muahahahaha!
Sorry, I've been generally declutterifying my life lately, but sometimes I need to indulge my hoardery tendencies. I supplement it with massive doses of Clean House, Hoarders and How Clean is Your House aversion therapy. But they'll get my books from they pry them from my cold, dead hands, after they find me under the pile that's toppled on top of me.
Back on topic! The food processor and Cooking with Claudine cookbooks are nods to my recent obsessions with my food processor and public television food shows, respectively. My nearest and dearest have had to accustom themeselves with my first name basis references to Julia, although I have yet to get around to seeing Julie and Julia. The House on Mango Street is really big in Chicano literature history; I bought the Pablo Neruda collection without even realizing the greatest part, which is that every poem is listed in the original text along with the English translation. Very cool. East of Eden filled the "classic I've never read" category, and I was super jazzed to find a pulp noirish paperback by Stephen King. I have a whole collection of genuinely old school paperbacks from the 2005 sale by John D. MacDonald. Haven't got around to reading those either, sadly.
So, this weekend I went all the way up to Santa Barbara to volunteer (and shop) at the annual Planned Parenthood book sale:
Apparently I should have made it to the beginning of the sale, they told me it was only 30% of what it once was by the day I made it there. Even still it was far bigger than the St. Rose sale. More varied selection too, so my selections might appear to skew somewhat towards the scandalous? Whatever. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which at just 175 pages I'm about 1/3 of the way through already, sold me on the jacket blurb: "If Flannery O'Connor and Rita Mae Brown has collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity" etc etc. I've never read Rita Mae Brown but the Flannery O'Connor reference is certainly apt, with the dark humor and religious imagery threaded through everything. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers is a "history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America", which I got again because of my interest in pulp. Thanks Quentin Tarantino!
The Anne Rice and Gregory Maguire ones are similar in that they're both a take on fairy tales. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is the first in the series of Anne Rice's porny take on Sleeping Beauty. What I really had my eye out for was something in the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris, because half a dozen episodes of True Blood have been more than enough to convert me, but I didn't have any luck finding them so I settled for this. Mirror Mirror is a take on Snow White; I absolutely loved Wicked but I haven't read the sequels so I'm jazzed to read something else by Gregory Maguire.
Night Shift I got because of the cover art and because I can basically never leave one of these sales without a Stephen King book. Interesting (to me) to point out, the introduction is written by John D. MacDonald. Organizing for Dummies is self-explanatory, I hope, and finally we get to my coolest find: Choice Sometimes Chance: Recipes from the Kitchen of a Planned Parenthood Person. Circa 1980!
I love vintage cookbooks, especially this kind of self-published one, but if I bought every one I saw...I couldn't resist this one, though. It has the most amazing punny recipes:
From a Smorgasbord of Choice to Molding Public Opinion Salads and Mushrooming Support Soup! So awesome.