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Aug 21, 2006 15:35

Sorry I haven't updated in forever-- I've been busy because I have an awesome new job! Yay! I now work at the ultimate yarn mecca: WEBS. (www.yarn.com for those not in the know. *grin ( Read more... )

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hermionesviolin August 21 2006, 19:57:35 UTC
I've been meaning to read Midnight's Children for years, so I'd be happy to take that one off your hands.

Yay for job, btw.

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 20:09:35 UTC
Yay! 1 down, 40 gazillion to go!

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beowabbit August 21 2006, 20:14:58 UTC
You exist! Woo-hoo! It’s good to see your userpic again.

If you haven’t been reading, either, there’s been a lot going on in my life. New sweetie (or at least highly boffable friend), trip to NYC to see eisa and lots of museums, and so on.

I would very much like the first four:
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
A Canticle For Leibowitz Walter M. Miller
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston if you managed to miss this one in high school, pick it up and read it now-- it's really good!
Maiden Voyage Tania Aebi a really unusual and fascinating book about a young woman who randomly decides to sail around the world. I highly recommend it.
I love what little Salman Rushdie I’ve read, I can’t find my copy of ACfL, and it may well have been water-damaged, I haven’t read any Zora Neale Hurston! and I love books about sailing, especially nonfiction.

Oh, and I’d also love the Erica Jong if nobody else wants it; I’ve only ever read Fear of Flying, and that was when it originally came out back in the Pleistocene ( ... )

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beowabbit August 21 2006, 20:16:44 UTC
I will, of course, happily defer to hermionesviolin on the Rushdie; I didn’t see her comment when I replied.

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 20:25:14 UTC
WEBS only sounds like a big chain, it's actually a single, family-owned store. Yay for yarny jobs for everyone!!!

And yay for awesome Bostonians taking multiple books from me! Yay!

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beowabbit August 21 2006, 21:36:46 UTC
WEBS only sounds like a big chain, it's actually a single, family-owned store. Yay for yarny jobs for everyone!!!
I figured that out when I looked at the web site. I’ll have to ask cathijosephine the name of the place where she works.

Oh, and I didn’t see the whole list when I first replied. I’m also interested inRocannon's World Ursula K. LeGuin
Midnight Dean Koontz
Polar Star Martin Cruz Smith
The Puppet Masters Robert Heinlein
Oh, and I highly recommend Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine.

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jagienka August 21 2006, 20:22:29 UTC
I'd love Maiden Voyage for sure if it's not already claimed. And maybe Solomon & the Queen of Sheba too... if it's okay if i get two.

I'll give them very good homes, I promise.

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 20:24:01 UTC
You can have as many books as you want! --but the Maiden Voyage's already been claimed. You'll have to fight beowabbit for it if you really want it. *grin*

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jagienka August 21 2006, 20:25:40 UTC
I'll just try to find it elsewhere then.

I'll happily take the Anne McCaffrey ones too. ;)

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 20:47:07 UTC
Woot! The other two I have are Damia and Damia's Children-- both of which I adored back in the day, and will probably surreptitiously reread before I send them off to you (if you want 'em).

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Re: can i call... beowabbit August 21 2006, 21:40:25 UTC
polymexina’s welcome to Rocannon’s World. I don’t need to be greedy. :-)

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Re: can i call... gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 23:11:31 UTC
Any chance you'll yield either Dancing At the Edge of the World OR A Place Where the Sea Remembers to wavestar? If you're really attached to both, that's ok-- you did call them first, after all.

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wavestar August 21 2006, 22:28:10 UTC
You should go to bookmooch.com.

But first, you should give me:

Neverwhere Neil Gaiman
A Place Where the Sea Remembers Sandra Benitez
and Dancing At the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, and Places Ursula K. LeGuin

if they're going.

Yay!

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 23:01:27 UTC
Hey! While I was going through my books, I also found (and carefully set aside) A Knot in the Grain, which I swear is yours...

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wavestar August 22 2006, 14:16:16 UTC
Hmm. It might be. I don't know where my copy is, but I usually just assume books I'm uncertain of like that are somewhere at my parents' house. Did I loan it to you, then?

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gishmi1ish August 21 2006, 23:01:54 UTC
PS: any chance you'd also be interested in Stardust by Gaiman?

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