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Oct. 22nd, 2005 12:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxIn the ongoing saga of Me Getting Rid Of Some Books:
I took a full box of books to Half Price Books to sell tonight; was given $20 for them. (Which is not a lot when you consider the investment, but OK when you consider that I wanted to get rid of them and they were just sitting around.) The rest of the books I'm getting rid of for now are donateable, another box; the store wouldn't have wanted them. After the donations are donated and the collectibles sold on ebay, I will have gotten rid of something like 80+ books.
To reward myself I got a book I've been wanting, Stephenson's The System of the World - it's the third Baroque Cycle book, and I have the first two in hardcover, so I was happy to get the last one in HC as well. Did not get A Storm of Swords, which was the other book I wanted to pick up.
Goodness, that makes it sound like I read nothing but multivolume fantasy, when in truth, I hate multivolume fantasy and there are very few series that I'd actually read willingly. I've gotten caught up in the George R.R. Martin books. I read A Game of Thrones soon after it came out in paperback, but I read it in a very, er, special way... reading Daenerys's story straight through the book and ignoring everything else. This time around I'm actually reading the whole book, and I might even be caught up by the time A Feast For Crows comes out next month.
Poor Tom = home sick all day today with the stomach flu, eating crackers and moaning. I took him some supplies earlier tonight. We are supposed to go to a low-key Halloween party tomorrow night, which is about all I get to do for Halloween this year, as he is going to a stupid convention next weekend. (I am nearly as aggravated about this convention being on Halloween weekend as I would be if it were on my birthday or something like that.) It is possible that he won't be up for the party, which would be a bummer... regardless of whether we make it or not, I hope he feels better soon.
I took a full box of books to Half Price Books to sell tonight; was given $20 for them. (Which is not a lot when you consider the investment, but OK when you consider that I wanted to get rid of them and they were just sitting around.) The rest of the books I'm getting rid of for now are donateable, another box; the store wouldn't have wanted them. After the donations are donated and the collectibles sold on ebay, I will have gotten rid of something like 80+ books.
To reward myself I got a book I've been wanting, Stephenson's The System of the World - it's the third Baroque Cycle book, and I have the first two in hardcover, so I was happy to get the last one in HC as well. Did not get A Storm of Swords, which was the other book I wanted to pick up.
Goodness, that makes it sound like I read nothing but multivolume fantasy, when in truth, I hate multivolume fantasy and there are very few series that I'd actually read willingly. I've gotten caught up in the George R.R. Martin books. I read A Game of Thrones soon after it came out in paperback, but I read it in a very, er, special way... reading Daenerys's story straight through the book and ignoring everything else. This time around I'm actually reading the whole book, and I might even be caught up by the time A Feast For Crows comes out next month.
Poor Tom = home sick all day today with the stomach flu, eating crackers and moaning. I took him some supplies earlier tonight. We are supposed to go to a low-key Halloween party tomorrow night, which is about all I get to do for Halloween this year, as he is going to a stupid convention next weekend. (I am nearly as aggravated about this convention being on Halloween weekend as I would be if it were on my birthday or something like that.) It is possible that he won't be up for the party, which would be a bummer... regardless of whether we make it or not, I hope he feels better soon.
