I have been cleaning off my shelves, and while some of my books may catch a decent price on Amazon, some aren't worth the effort to sell. Even though I am trying to get rid of them, I am still a little too attached to want to give them to Goodwill, where I doubt the clientele will appreciate the books I don't want any more. So, if you see something you like in the list below, post a comment saying which book(s) you want. I will then correspond with you by email to get your address (if I don't have it already), and ship it to you via media mail ABSOLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE! That's right. I want good homes for my books enough that I am willing to pay the $1.50 it costs to ship them. I am NOT going to ship overseas. Too expensive.
Get them while you can! In two weeks, I will give them to Josh to set out in a box somewhere on the Claremont campus with a sign that says, "Kittens--FREE!". Here's the list:
Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak Hardcover!
Patricia McKillip, Song for the Basilisk
Francisco Garcia Pavon, El carnaval
Addison, Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (Norton Critical Edition)
Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays
Warren G. Bennis and Philip E. Slater, The Temporary Society
Morris H. Philipson, An Outline of Jungian Aesthetics
Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy Hardcover!
Ed. Ann Oakley and Juliet Mitchell, Who's Afraid of Feminism? (Complete with my juvenile writing on the cover page with the definition of "misogyny" for my own reference.)
Deborah Knucky, Conscious Spending for Couples
Peter McWilliams, Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Arthur Miller, Echose Down the Corridor (Collected Essays)
Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
Voltaire, Zadig/L'Ingenu (in French)
The Oxford Annotated Bible (Hardcover)
John Bayley, Elegy for Iris
F. E. Adcock, The Roman Art of War Under the Republic
YAY!!! So, I have 2 categories of interest: the first is *intense* interest (as in, I am prepared to lay some serious logical smack down if someone has a better reason why she should get books in this category instead of me), and the second is *variable* interest (where I list books in order of my interest in them, such that the last on the list will probably never actually be read by me, but I think that it would look pretty on my shelf). Anyway, here it is:
INTENSE Interest:
-- Voltaire, _Zadig/L'ingenu_
-- Oakley & Mitchell, _Who's Afraid of Feminism?_
VARIED Interest:
-- Thornton Wilder, _Out Town_
-- Saul Bellow, _More Die of Heartbreak_
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Blithedale Romance_
-- Deborah Knucky, _Conscious Spending for Couples_
-- Arthur Miller, _Echoes Down the Corridor_
Hey, would you mind sending me the Night trilogy? Elie Weisel is a professor here at BU, and I've been wanting to read Night for a while (and it's always checked out at the library). I will reimburse you for shipping, though! I still need to mail you photos and your rainforest T-shirt, too.
Posted by: Vicky Waltz at September 19, 2006 7:07 AMHey, thanks so much for the books and the postcard! I've already read "Night," and I just started "Dawn." Powerful stuff. I actually already own "Hard Times," but I bet my mom will enjoy it, so I'm sending it to her!
Posted by: Vicky at September 29, 2006 6:33 AM