Both HD and Sharnina tagged me for the book meme, so here I go.
First of all, all of the books of sufficient length are in the office (the only books within reach are board books.) So, off I go to retrieve one. . .
The first book when I walked into the office was the AAP's guide to caring for baby and young child. BORING. So, I skipped that one and reached for the next. . . "The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker"
"Should Heaven send me any son,
I hope he's not like Tennyson."
Good old Dorothy Parker.
I'm not sure who has been tagged yet, so I tag You, You, You, You and. . . You!
In other news, which is also related to books:
eBay. oBoy.
I read a lot of books when I was a little kid. My parents most effective punishment for me was taking my books away. I had a lot of Weekly Reader books, which I read many, many times and loved very much.
It was a sad day when my parents basement flooded and ruined a few boxes of my prized books. I've been wanting to replace them ever since but many are out of print, or hard to find, or I don't remember the titles. Still, I poke through the children's section at Barnes & Noble now and then and try to pick up anything that I see that was a part of my old collection. It's been slow going.
A few nights ago I decided to poke around eBay for old books and holey moley there's a bonanza out there. I currently have bids in on 6 books and I'm watching 4 others. They're all about $1 each, so I'm not breaking any banks, but I have a feeling that I'm going to be doing a lot of poking around and buying. Several of the books are from the same seller, who seems to have had a very similar library to mine. I'm hoping she has and lists more stuff.
What's fun is that I searched for "Weekly Reader" and a bunch of books that I never would have remembered in a million years popped up and I had several instances of "OH! I had that book!" Very fun.
I also searched and am watching a collection of 20 teen historical romance novels that my friends and I used to swap and read voraciously when we were in 6th grade. Haven't bid on those yet but I keep thinking about grabbing them.
Like I need more crap.
2 comments:
LOL, I know what you mean. I have not searched for any books on ebay yet but I did look at other things from my childhood (scratch and sniff stickers, lunch pails, etc.) and ebay was the place to find them.
Have fun rebuilding your library, Fro!
I sold some old "Boy's Life" magazines on ebay. I also sold some old programs from Dodger baseball games. I even sold all my old tickets to past Dodger games!
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