Stuff That Could Be Yours: August 2007

[rsadelle]

This letting go is really working for me.

Some things that I wanted to sell are now reappearing as free items. Notably, the comic books, which I decided were more trouble than they were worth to try and sell. Other things have been listed on Amazon, which I highly recommend as a way to sell your stuff.

How This Works: If you want something, or

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[mister_tea]

I'll take

32. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., paperback

72. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(just the first two from the series.)

[rsadelle]

They're yours!

[abusing_sarcasm]

Ooh ooh ooh! Can I have Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts? I don't have those...

I'll love you forever!

[abusing_sarcasm]

I'd also take the action figures off your hands! I've been wanting to get into collecting them. I already have all your old HP stuff anyway... I'm going to have to send you something to thank you. How do you feel about cookies? :)

[rsadelle]

The books and the action figures are yours! I love cookies, but don't feel obligated to send me anything. I'm delighted to give things away!

[abusing_sarcasm]

Yes, but you deserve cookies. And they don't take up any room, so they won't interfere with your giving away... But it's up to you.

I'm totally delighted about the stuff! I ran upstairs like a little girl yelling, "Guess what I'm getting!!!!" :)

[archivecats]

I am feeling greedy. But also like I need a nap. I think I will ask for some things I know I want, and then come back later and look at other things on Amazon (if they are still available) to see if I want them, too. And then if you change your mind, you can always get the books back from me. :) I would definitely like to have:

from books, 4. Sunshine by Robin McKinley, 54. Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith (I just read this book, in the original two parts, from the library for the first time recently, and have already sold copies to two people at work - it felt kind of unsophisticated, and the love story can be seen coming at first glance, of course, but I still liked it :), 74. When the King Comes Home by Caroline Stevermer (read this a few years ago and was just thinking about it again recently);
and from comics, 13. Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (just because I'm told it's much better with the pictures; if someone else wants it, I could send it to them to keep after I looked at it).

[rsadelle]

Stardust has already been claimed, but the others are all yours! Do come back after your nap and see if there's anything else you want.

I thought similarly about Crown Duel - her battle scenes are not great, but I did love the book anyway. (I recommend avoiding the short story that's tacked on to the end of the two-books-in-one book; it's not very good.)

Have you read A College of Magics and A Scholar of Magics? I forget the exact relationship, but they're somehow in the same universe as When the King Comes Home. (I liked A College of Magics better than A Scholar of Magics.)

[rsadelle]

Your nap is getting very long, and other people have taken lots of things while you were sleeping. Do you want anything else, or should I box up your things and send them away?

[archivecats]

Hey, I am a champion napper, I'll have you know! :) Seriously, part of the idea was that other people would come and take things so that I would not. I did mean to delay your mailing, though, and I apologize for that. Why don't I also try 20. Free the Conroy Seven by Jane McFann so that there looks like there was a reason to delay it.

Yes, I have read A College of Magics and A Scholar of Magics - you gave me the first one! :) - and like you, I preferred the first to the second, even though the first had one of those weird, problematic romances. (Also the ending broke one of the two rules of writing I've come up with since encountering a number of writers who broke them. They will be the subject of an entry. Someday.) It is funny how in some areas our tastes in reading accord exactly, while in other areas they totally don't.

P.S. My new theory is that Luna is too good for Harry. She and Neville should get together.

[meacoustic]

I am cracking up at the DVDs you are getting rid of. *g* But I don't want anything.

[rsadelle]

*g* Good for you!

[kirana_44]

I would like:

2. Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel, autographed, hardback

33. Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly edited by Jane Espenson and Glenn Yeffeth, paperback

3. Paperweight from Mongolia

do you need me to send you my address again? I sent it to you before only a couple months ago.

[rsadelle]

They're yours! I do still have your address, so don't worry about sending it again.

[kirana_44]

Thanks!

[rsadelle]

I put your stuff in the mail yesterday!