#abebooks

[dr-george-ordell]

I ORDERED A PRINCE OF OUR DISORDER FROM ABEBOOKSCO.UK AND A BOOK ABOUT THOSE IMBRED ROYAL SPANISH TWATS CAME INSTEADDDDD

[zeehasablog]

My book of poetry "Le Tournesol and other poems" is available to buy online from a number of different worldwide sites!

[piecesoftape]

Friendly reminder to check out one of my local library’s abebooks collection. It’s a very small “community” library (they’re trying very hard to go public and join the network of the other local public libraries, but it requires money) that runs entirely on volunteers and mostly on donated books. Every purchase takes another book of our already overstuffed “rare books” shelf and all the profits goes directly back to the library, which will help us buy/build more shelves to hold these books and help us be able to become a public library (and hopefully move to a bigger space as well)!

I pretty much run this project on my own, so I am pretty proud of it. The volunteers sort through the donated books to find ones to go on the library’s shelves and put aside potentially valuable ones for me to evaluate based on condition, edition, author’s signature, etc. (The rest go to a big booksale we have 2-3 times a year).

We have a bunch of books from the 1940′s, quite a few from the late 1800′s and one even from the 1700s! (and of course books in between and after)

So please help a small library (and me!) out and get yourself a neat new (or old) treasure!

[marblesarelost]

I just went through my book wish list and put it on Bookshop.

(I'm not buying anything TODAY because I have to move in ....FML SEVEN WEEKS?... and I am not stupid enough to buy MORE BOOKS just to have to pack them up and move them. Not to mention some of them are on backorder or preorder and I don't want them going to the wrong address because I am moving in seven weeks.)

BEFORE adding a bunch more?

Um

It was over $300.

AFTER adding a bunch more?

I don't know how much it is, and I'm honestly afraid to add it all up.

WELP

Just added all to my cart.

YEAH

It's under a grand!

.....barely....

But a lot of these books are REALLY IMPORTANT -- Jared Sexton, Heather Cox Richardson, stuff about how we really are facing a civil war coming, stuff about how shitty it is to be poor in America (not that I don't KNOW that shit),and then there's the books I just fucking WANT: the Wolf Hall books by Hilary Mantel, the Shigeru Mizuki Japanese history mangas, new copies of the Paks original trilogy and the expansion of the world as well (I didn't like those as much as the original Paks books, but I liked them well enough, and also Sergeant Stammel -- gods bless him), Gaiman's Norse Mythology and American Gods and Stardust and a new copy of the Graveyard Book, and the Chronicles of Prydain which I really do need to read, and then there's the James Clavell** books that I legit HAVE to have and the Tolkien, again, I have to have them because somehow I do not have copies of the big Four and the Silmarillion and yes I AM getting the illustrated Hobbit and the illustrated Silmarillion separately because ILLUSTRATIONS BY TOLKIEN, DAMMIT

(** Yes, I'm aware that Clavell's work is very problematic. That being said, my mother once told me, when learning that at the time I was reading Shogun and really liking it, that Shogun was the only book she ever saw my father, my actual father, read.

Now I know for a fact, solid and cold, that Daddy liked Stephen King. He read a lot of King after he and my mom divorced. He's who turned me into a Constant Reader -- okay given that I read Pet Sematary when I was eight at my grandma's house -- by giving me The Eyes of the Dragon when I was young; by handing me IT and Christine and The Shining and The Stand when I was older.

All that being said, there is something very special to me about reading and enjoying and loving books that my father read and loved. It makes me feel that we are still sharing, still reaching out to one another, beyond the Boundaries of Death's Country.

Not to mention, King Rat is....horribly problematic. Horribly so. Yet there is something in it that reaches to me. Here is greed, here is horror, here is the worst that man can be to man. Yet here is generosity, here is quiet stoic heroism, here is mercy, here is hope.

Clavell's work is problematic, yes. Lots of work is. But there is something to be learned from it. Do I think every work has something to be learned from? Not really. Some is just shit, and that's the honest truth. But some, we can learn something from.)

and FML I still need to find the complete Keltiad -- the Aeron books and the Arthur books, Blackmantle was a horrible revenge fantasy -- (And just for the record, I KNEW her, I KNEW Patricia, she invited me to her HOUSE if I were ever in NYC, she named me her War-Badger, I counted her as a FRIEND, I MOURNED her when she passed, and I STILL think Blackmantle was a HORRIBLE revenge fantasy) and the complete Belgariad along with Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress --

....FUCK.

(If you're wondering why I didn't mention the Malloreon, it's because I read the first book and hated it)

...I'd love to have the complete Foxfire series...

...guess I'm gonna have to hit up AbeBooks or something too...

RIP the cash I was gonna set aside just for me I guess....

[onarangel]

Daphnis Chloe-Longus (Translated by George Thornley)

Book cover of the first limited edition

Published by Rarity Press, NY, 1931

Illustrator: John Austen

[aceduchessdragoness]

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

“A refreshingly timely and relatable debut novel about a young woman whose life plans fall apart when she meets her wife. With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn’t know…until she does exactly that. This one moment of departure from her stern ex-military father’s plans for her life has Grace wondering why she doesn’t feel more fulfilled from completing her degree. Staggering under the weight of her father’s expectations, a struggling job market and feelings of burnout, Grace flees her home in Portland for a summer in New York with the wife she barely knows. In New York, she’s able to ignore all the annoying questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife, Yuki Yamamoto. But when reality comes crashing in, Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human, the family scars that need to heal and the longing for connection, especially when navigating the messiness of adulthood.”

some of chapter one is also available to preview

[witchcraftingboop]

AbeBooks: We think he shipped it.

USPS: I mean he probably shipped it . . . Right?

Also USPS: Your tracking number actually isn't active and never existed in our system. Maybe try again?

Me, gasping awake after 5 hours of sleep, clutching my blankets to my chest: It's coming here! Today!

USPS & AbeBooks:

[ladyniniane]

I lost myself looking for second hand books on AbeBooks