In which I acquire far too many books

[liv]

I may have got them all home safely (and my back and shoulders have not yet forgiven me), but now I need to find homes for them. This may prove challenging. Since I have that kind of mind, I have made a complete list of the very few books I managed to leave behind and the ridiculously many that came home with me. Of course, I now want to spend the next several months reading instead of getting on with my life...

Brought from home
Kate Atkinson: Emotionally weird Michelle Magorian: A spoonful of jam	Read
Melvin Burgess: Bloodtide G B Edwards: The book of Ebenezer le Page Arundhati Roy: The god of small things	Given to rysmiel
AS Byatt: Babel Tower	Failed to give to rysmiel
David Brin: Sundiver Elizabeth Gaskell: Wives and Daughters Ursula Le Guin: Earthsea compendium	Not read, brought straight back home
Bought in New York
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire	Read
Dodie Smith: I capture the castle	Given to blackherring
Karen Armstrong: The spiral staircase	Lent to blackherring
Olivia Judson: Dr Tatiana's sex advice to all creation	Read and lent to blackherring
Diana Wynne Jones: A tale of time city	Failed to give to blackherring
Anne Michaels: Fugitive pieces	Read and then given to redbird
Chaim Potok: The book of lights	Given to rysmiel
Helene Hanff: Apple of my eye Rose Macaulay: They were defeated	Brought home to give to parents
Michael Ondaatje: The English patient Mary Renault: The friendly young ladies Elie Wiesel: Somewhere a master The Oxford book of short poems	Not read yet, brought home
Bought in Berkeley
Neil Gaimam: American gods	Read
Samuel R Delany: Babel-17 Lord Dunsany: Beyond the fields we know Gabriel García Márquez: In evil hour Iris Murdoch: Under the net Chaim Potok: I am the clay Anne Tyler: A Patchwork planet	Not read yet, brought home
Presents from rysmiel
ER Eddison: The worm Ouroboros Jan Morris: Last letters from Hav Sean Stewart: Nobody's son	Not read yet, brought home
Jack Womack: Heathern Jack Womack: Random acts of senseless violence	Lent to blackherring
Bought in Montreal (of my own volition)
Jean Anouillh: Le directeur de l'Opéra Simone de Beauvoir: La force de l'age Italo Calvino: If on a winter's night a traveller Albert Camus: Caligula Madeleine l'Engle: A wind in the door (appears to be signed) Rumer Godden: A time to dance, no time to weep Eugene Ionesco: Rhinoceros Sébastien Japrisot: La passion des femmes Choderlos de Laclos: Les liaisons dangereuses Edmond Rostand: L'aiglon Alice Walker: The temple of my familiar Jo Walton: The king's name (bought new) Elie Wiesel: A beggar in Jerusalem	Not read yet, brought home
Bought in Montreal (on rysmiel's suggestions or orders)
William Goldman: The color of light	Read and lent to blackherring
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana Bruce Sterling: Zeitgeist (bought new)	Read
Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers	Reading at the moment
Emma Bull: War for the oaks Samuel R Delaney: Empire star Samuel R Delaney: Nova Peter Dickinson: King and Joker Joe Haldeman: The forever war Jack Womack: Elvissey	Not read yet, brought home

I hope I've got all the HTML sorted; making a big table seemed like a better idea than it actually was.

Comments

[redbird]

Add: Fugitive Pieces, given to me.

[liv]

Oh, that was already mentioned in there. But you have reminded me that I meant to but forgot to convert all the usernames to proper <lj user> tags, and hopefully it's clearer now I've done so. Thanks!

[sovevuni.livejournal.com]

Have you read Chaim Potok's "Davita's Harp"?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

How did rysmiel tempt you into reading The King's Name when I couldn't?

[liv]

I have not read that, no. I absolutely adore The book of lights, and apart from that I've read My name is Asher Lev, The Chosen and The Promise, and the non-fiction thing Wanderings, and I think that's about it, though maybe I'm forgetting something.

[liv]

'Twasn't rysmiel, I somehow got into a discussion with papersky herself about this in her LJ, and I kind of promised her I would read it. I am going to try to find that discussion again to link to but it might be a bit needle-and-haystack-ish.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I now want to spend the next several months reading instead of getting on with my life.

Welcome to my default reality.

Also, you left out Les Liaisons Dangereuses, unless you didn't actually buy it after all. [ And what prompted blackherring to borrow the Womack ? ]

I am really looking forward to some of the reviews coming up...

*hugs*

[liv]

I now want to spend the next several months reading instead of getting on with my life.
Welcome to my default reality.
*grin* I like that, for sympathy.

Also, you left out Les Liaisons Dangereuses
I did and all. Thanks for pointing that out. I have a troubling itchy feeling that this grand list is still missing one, even though I wrote it with the physical pile of books right in front of me.

[ And what prompted blackherring to borrow the Womack ? ]
Don't know, really. J? She was looking through all the treasure that came back with me to New York and getting excited over various things. She said that she got most of the way through Heathern and then got confused because she couldn't work out why all these people were shagging.

I am really looking forward to some of the reviews coming up...
I am horribly behind on reviews, which is kind of an expected side effect of going on holiday. But I do have a pile of books by the computer looking at me accusingly.

[sovevuni.livejournal.com]

You should then. :) It's a beautiful book.