what are you reading? - Page 9

littlemissattitude · 08-13-2005, 10:34 PM

More mindless action adventure. I'm reading another Clive Cussler, "Trojan Odyssey" this time. I really think it's the time of the year - its been so hot for so long that I don't want to have to think too much. My mind stops working when it gets above about 80 F, and it's been considerably above that for a long time now. I want fall to get here.

Anyway, how can I concentrate when somebody across the street just got a new motorcycle and he and his friends are taking turns riding it up and down the street? *sigh* Boys and their toys.

08-14-2005, 11:53 AM

I've found a new second hand books shop near by and even better it's big, cheap and friendly... YAY!

Haven't had a chance to have a good browse yet but I picked up Ursula Le Guin's The Winds four Quarters which I have been looking for for years, I also picked up her Left hand of darkness as well and at $10 for the pair. So at the momment that's what I'm reading. :biggrin:

Princess Ivy · 08-15-2005, 08:56 AM

i was a bit disapointed, got a copy of dragonquest, suitably decorated. and a copy of the whip who sang, only to realise that i have both. also found a copy of an unread frank herbert, which was sweat enough, but lacked the complexities of dune. but a large pile of azimov short stories and some moorcoks and aldis and silverbergs. but at 20p each, i shouldn't complain.

littlemissattitude · 08-15-2005, 05:29 PM

I really need a trip to a good used book store. I just wish I had the time and the money for a day trip up to Berkeley...they've got the best used bookstores I've ever found. Well, there is that one in Anaheim...but in Berkeley, on Telegraph Avenue, there are three or four really good ones within a couple of blocks.

08-15-2005, 07:28 PM

I'm reading Barbara Erskine's Lady of Hay. Not too far into it yet (tho I have met Matilda). It is interesting so far and now I want to read the rest. This title was suggested by Kelpie over at Chronicles in the Historical Fiction forum so I thought I'd give it a go.

Princess Ivy · 08-15-2005, 11:08 PM

hope its a good one DD
LMA, we have no good second hand book shops here. it's a pet peeve of mine. everyone gives their books to the local charity shops who then sell them at exorbitant prices. luckily they get to many. my contact is a lovely sci-fi fantasy fan who works at a charity shop in our local villiage. the shops have to dump surplus stock and pay for the removal of the refuse. she gives it to me, at 20p per book and i get lucky. everyone wins :biggrin:

littlemissattitude · 08-16-2005, 09:02 AM

There's at least one pretty good used bookstore in Fresno, but I haven't been able to get there in a long time.* Parking is weird and it would be too far for my mother to walk to get into the place, but I won't leave her in the car n that neighborhood - it isn't a "bad" neighborhood, per se, but it's the sort of hang-out area for those who don't fit all that well into the traditional, normal Fresno culture, and they make my mom a little nervous sometimes.* Lots of Goth kids and like that, mostly.* And since I won't leave her alone for any length of time, I don't get a lot of opportunity to go off by myself to go browsing for books there.* They've got a kick-butt science fiction section, too, or anyway they always have had.* I just wish they hadn't closed down their other store around the corner, where they had more hardbacks and nonfiction books.

Edit to add: There is always the one county library branch that has a used bookstore attached, where they sell donated books as a fund-raiser.* But it's only open on Thursday mornings, plus all day one Thursday a month and, I think, one Saturday a month.* So it's not that convenient.

Princess Ivy · 08-17-2005, 09:42 AM

i picked up a box for £6. most of them are for sale, i've got eighteen that i want to read first, then sell and three that i bought to keep: dune messiah, Backwards - Rob Grant and i'm embarassed to say, Conan the adventurer. he is cheesy, but real feel good stuff.

08-18-2005, 04:55 PM

You going to put them up on ebay? Anything I'd be interested in? Of course, I need money in my paypal account first...*sigh*

Princess Ivy · 08-19-2005, 12:19 AM

the conanan, dune and red dwarf are mine :biggrin: most of the rest of it will be going on, as i finish reading it. and there is some other stuff that i have already read that isgoingon. i've got quite a bit of sci fi stuff on right now. and a little fantasy. even some other stuff that i just found.