Here, again in no particular order, is a list of books I own and have no immediate plans to sell in real life, but I can sell different copies of them online, thanks to Amazon. This list is a small section of a very long list of books made by pulling them out of boxes into which they'd been shoved according to their size. If two books that had been on the same shelf got into the same box, it was a coincidence.
First on this short list, in alphabetical order, a book I remember having bought on a dime-a-dozen sale. I read it. I wasn't terribly impressed but planned to read it again before discarding it.
If not quite as wacky as Willy Wonka, Roald Dahl's other books had their own charm:
This teen-targeted novel, set in a hypothetical future Zimbabwe, is certainly "different."
I think I read, or scanned, this one in college. I had bought it with the intention of reading it as an adult. I still have that intention.
Everyone used to like this fictionalized memoir from time gone by. You might, too. Did I mention it last month? Well, so what if I did--it won't hurt you to see it twice.
James George Frazer's Folklore in the Old Testament must be becoming rare; Amazon doesn't show a page for it. It's not the same book as The Golden Bough
. Lengthy though the original Golden Bough was, Frazer did not use up his lifetime supply of words in writing it.
One of a series of comic novels middle school girls love and adults find easy to take...there's a new edition with a different cover, now, but this is what I have.
One of several independent comic novels for adults by an author billed as similar in style to Helen Fielding. Meh. Bridget Jones
has nothing to fear. Maxted's novels contain so much "adult content" that I'm not sure it's even auntly to review them here, though they qualify as comedy not pornography.
This one's definitely comedy not pornography. The late Calvin Trillin wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I think I enjoyed everything he ever wrote.
Part of the dumbing down of public libraries was that most of them discarded the Best American Essays series. If you enjoy blogs and aren't familiar with these annual collections, I recommend them. The Best American Essays are what bloggers would like to write, if we were good enough that somebody was paying us to polish our posts into this type of short rambling articles.
And...this may well be the best first book about knitting ever written in English. Again, there's a new edition, but this is what I have, or had.
First on this short list, in alphabetical order, a book I remember having bought on a dime-a-dozen sale. I read it. I wasn't terribly impressed but planned to read it again before discarding it.
If not quite as wacky as Willy Wonka, Roald Dahl's other books had their own charm:
This teen-targeted novel, set in a hypothetical future Zimbabwe, is certainly "different."
I think I read, or scanned, this one in college. I had bought it with the intention of reading it as an adult. I still have that intention.
Everyone used to like this fictionalized memoir from time gone by. You might, too. Did I mention it last month? Well, so what if I did--it won't hurt you to see it twice.
James George Frazer's Folklore in the Old Testament must be becoming rare; Amazon doesn't show a page for it. It's not the same book as The Golden Bough
. Lengthy though the original Golden Bough was, Frazer did not use up his lifetime supply of words in writing it.One of a series of comic novels middle school girls love and adults find easy to take...there's a new edition with a different cover, now, but this is what I have.
One of several independent comic novels for adults by an author billed as similar in style to Helen Fielding. Meh. Bridget Jones
has nothing to fear. Maxted's novels contain so much "adult content" that I'm not sure it's even auntly to review them here, though they qualify as comedy not pornography.This one's definitely comedy not pornography. The late Calvin Trillin wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I think I enjoyed everything he ever wrote.
Part of the dumbing down of public libraries was that most of them discarded the Best American Essays series. If you enjoy blogs and aren't familiar with these annual collections, I recommend them. The Best American Essays are what bloggers would like to write, if we were good enough that somebody was paying us to polish our posts into this type of short rambling articles.
And...this may well be the best first book about knitting ever written in English. Again, there's a new edition, but this is what I have, or had.
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