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The Gordon (-den?) Avenue Library Book Sale opened for two days this weekend, and begins in earnest Saturday. I exercised today by walking over there and carrying my new books back. Spoils were as follows:
1) Vol I and II of the three-volume Complete Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence. Rach says they're fine, and Lady Chatterly went down ok, so why not.
2) First on the Moon. Record of the first flight to the moon with material from the three astronauts aboard Apollo 11, and an epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke.
3) Prose and Poetry of the American West, Ed. James Work.
4) By the Bombs Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, by Paul Boyer
5) Yevtuschenko Poems, bilingual edition tras. Herbert Marshall.
I'm almost done with a compilation of Damon Runyon's stories. I've been working through them in off moments for a few weeks. Apparently, only once in all of his stories does he ever use past tense- all the characters talk about everything in present tense. Hm. They're good mostly for the language- little twists at the end are sometimes too forced or afterthoughtish.
This week the VA Festival of the Book is going down in Charlottesville. They're showing Buster Keaton movies Wednesday, which sounds exciting, but I'll feel a bit silly going to a book festival for the movies.
1) Vol I and II of the three-volume Complete Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence. Rach says they're fine, and Lady Chatterly went down ok, so why not.
2) First on the Moon. Record of the first flight to the moon with material from the three astronauts aboard Apollo 11, and an epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke.
3) Prose and Poetry of the American West, Ed. James Work.
4) By the Bombs Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, by Paul Boyer
5) Yevtuschenko Poems, bilingual edition tras. Herbert Marshall.
I'm almost done with a compilation of Damon Runyon's stories. I've been working through them in off moments for a few weeks. Apparently, only once in all of his stories does he ever use past tense- all the characters talk about everything in present tense. Hm. They're good mostly for the language- little twists at the end are sometimes too forced or afterthoughtish.
This week the VA Festival of the Book is going down in Charlottesville. They're showing Buster Keaton movies Wednesday, which sounds exciting, but I'll feel a bit silly going to a book festival for the movies.
posted by meg at 10:14 PM
1 Comments:
i am so jealous of all of the book times you are having in charlottesville right now, you have no idea.
mmmm, thinking about buying whole books with a single quarter...i'd almost forgotten about quarters entirely.
and shit, i've loved quarters so! (oh, the things that are valuable to a young, poor person)
hope you are making waves.
(p.s. gordon)
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