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Forget the previous entry about DVDs. Clear it from your mind.
Instead, here is a post about books! These are DIFFERENT books from the books listed previously. These are ones I've held onto for a reason, even if that reason is not that I ever, ever read them. Many are SORTA HARD TO FIND! Others make great LEND-OUTS! Comment or email me if you want any of these.
THE CUCKOO'S EGG: Once our most prized thrift store find, this charmingly 1970s account of catching a hacker on the u.c. berkeley arpanet is now on kindle!
FRENCH DICTIONARY/FRENCH GRAMMAR BOOK: It's amazing how long I've kept this considering I never read or speak French and Google translate exists. The grammar book is sorta nice to have anyway, lists verb conjugations and grammar rules.
GOOD OMENS: Ditto, it's on kindle but I kept it to lend out. Anyone need a paperback? (Also, I think this was originally Paul's!)
HARRIET THE SPY: Is on kindle. Anyone want a super old paperback??
HOW TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY by Orson Scott Card: Huge inspiration to me when I was younger, and includes some great general writing advice mixed in, but I just never write science fiction and fantasy.
IS HEATHCLIFF A MURDERER? by John Sutherland - Puzzles in classic literature, i.e. essays about lingering questions in books by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Trollope and more. Really good but I've only read a fraction of the books it's about. Hard to find.
LUCK IN THE SHADOWS: This is the only pulp fantasy book I like on account of the gay elves, but it's on kindle so I'll almost certainly reread it there if I ever want to. I kept the physical copy for lending out, but I think I've lent it to everyone now. Please message if you would like to borrow it--forever!
JANE EYRE illustrated by DAME DARCY: The illustrations are cool, but I am certain to reread this on kindle, I know because I have already done so!
MAURICE by E.M. Forster: Fun explicitly gay romance written in 1910s, not on Kindle, but I probably won't read it again unless and until it is.
THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN: I never read this anymore but it was a great inspiration when I was writing Lance and Eskimo articles. It's also impossible to find.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: For some reason I thought it was important to keep a physical copy of this, but I have it on kindle.
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION: Ditto on hard to find, sort of a published Sherlock Holmes and Freud fan fiction thing, fun but I probably won't read it again.
STELLA DALLAS: 90s trade paperback. I probably won't read this again, but it's sorta hard to find.
THREE MUSKETEERS: There are versions of this on Gutenberg etc, but the Modern Library hardback has a better translation, I think. I probably won't re-read it (I don't re-read books nearly as much as I think I do), so you're welcome to it!
Instead, here is a post about books! These are DIFFERENT books from the books listed previously. These are ones I've held onto for a reason, even if that reason is not that I ever, ever read them. Many are SORTA HARD TO FIND! Others make great LEND-OUTS! Comment or email me if you want any of these.
THE CUCKOO'S EGG: Once our most prized thrift store find, this charmingly 1970s account of catching a hacker on the u.c. berkeley arpanet is now on kindle!
FRENCH DICTIONARY/FRENCH GRAMMAR BOOK: It's amazing how long I've kept this considering I never read or speak French and Google translate exists. The grammar book is sorta nice to have anyway, lists verb conjugations and grammar rules.
GOOD OMENS: Ditto, it's on kindle but I kept it to lend out. Anyone need a paperback? (Also, I think this was originally Paul's!)
HARRIET THE SPY: Is on kindle. Anyone want a super old paperback??
HOW TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY by Orson Scott Card: Huge inspiration to me when I was younger, and includes some great general writing advice mixed in, but I just never write science fiction and fantasy.
IS HEATHCLIFF A MURDERER? by John Sutherland - Puzzles in classic literature, i.e. essays about lingering questions in books by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Trollope and more. Really good but I've only read a fraction of the books it's about. Hard to find.
LUCK IN THE SHADOWS: This is the only pulp fantasy book I like on account of the gay elves, but it's on kindle so I'll almost certainly reread it there if I ever want to. I kept the physical copy for lending out, but I think I've lent it to everyone now. Please message if you would like to borrow it--forever!
JANE EYRE illustrated by DAME DARCY: The illustrations are cool, but I am certain to reread this on kindle, I know because I have already done so!
MAURICE by E.M. Forster: Fun explicitly gay romance written in 1910s, not on Kindle, but I probably won't read it again unless and until it is.
THE MOST OF S.J. PERELMAN: I never read this anymore but it was a great inspiration when I was writing Lance and Eskimo articles. It's also impossible to find.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: For some reason I thought it was important to keep a physical copy of this, but I have it on kindle.
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION: Ditto on hard to find, sort of a published Sherlock Holmes and Freud fan fiction thing, fun but I probably won't read it again.
STELLA DALLAS: 90s trade paperback. I probably won't read this again, but it's sorta hard to find.
THREE MUSKETEERS: There are versions of this on Gutenberg etc, but the Modern Library hardback has a better translation, I think. I probably won't re-read it (I don't re-read books nearly as much as I think I do), so you're welcome to it!
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