leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
Gordon Avenue Booksale again. I consider myself a sane, functional individual, but put me near cheap books and something happens. I stack books like physics doesn't exist, I carry loads that'd leave me gasping in the gym, I have to read every title on the shelves, and time ceases to flow. I'm sure there are other effects but I'm oblivious to them. Also, everything else.
Anyhow, I got the following:
1) The Fall (and something else I forget) by Camus. For my little brother. He likes Camus! I am proud of him, and he's obviously deeper than me. I couldn't get through The Stranger.
2) I Married Adventure- Osa Johnson's autobiography. I read parts of her work in the anthology of women travelers.
3) Isles of the South Pacific, by the National Geographic Society. Color Pictures!
4) Maps of Jerusalem, the Holy Lands, and the Ascent of Man, also National Geographic. The map of Jerusalem is a painting of the Old City- it's very beautiful. Also, of course, annotated.
5) Departmental Ditties, an old copy of Kipling with some Arts and Crafts design on the cover. I'm a sucker for Arts and Crafts, and Kipling.
6) Burmese Days, by George Orwell. (My little brother also likes Orwell!)
7) Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez. Travel/Nature/History of a very cold place.
8) The French Revolution, by Carlyle.
9) The King of the Fields, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. From what I grasp, this is a weird introduction to his work, but it sounded interesting on the front flap.
10) Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, by V.S. Naipaul.
11) A Hero of Our Time, by Lermontov. One of my favorites, plus it's translated by Nabokov and has a beautiful picture on the cover. It's got one of those paper bindings that just feels nice in your hands.
12) 3 Doonesbury Collections, two from the 2000s and one from 1978-1980ish. I haven't read the most recent comics, but I'd already read most of the older one from the smaller collections I have. 9/11 was covered in the more recent collections.
I'm headed to TN tomorrow to visit my grandparents and attend the regional ASME conference. I'm driving down with a friend I'll collect from Tech, and taking some people also attending the conference to meet my grandparents. They want to meet my friends, and Granddad is a Mechanical Engineer- went to Tech himself, in '46- with really cool stories about the space program and nuclear power plants. I read a biography of Werner von Braun with him- he read it and annotated it for me. That was really neat- plus, when we go to the Air and Space museum in DC, he points out the satellites he worked on himself.
Have a nice weekend.
Anyhow, I got the following:
1) The Fall (and something else I forget) by Camus. For my little brother. He likes Camus! I am proud of him, and he's obviously deeper than me. I couldn't get through The Stranger.
2) I Married Adventure- Osa Johnson's autobiography. I read parts of her work in the anthology of women travelers.
3) Isles of the South Pacific, by the National Geographic Society. Color Pictures!
4) Maps of Jerusalem, the Holy Lands, and the Ascent of Man, also National Geographic. The map of Jerusalem is a painting of the Old City- it's very beautiful. Also, of course, annotated.
5) Departmental Ditties, an old copy of Kipling with some Arts and Crafts design on the cover. I'm a sucker for Arts and Crafts, and Kipling.
6) Burmese Days, by George Orwell. (My little brother also likes Orwell!)
7) Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez. Travel/Nature/History of a very cold place.
8) The French Revolution, by Carlyle.
9) The King of the Fields, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. From what I grasp, this is a weird introduction to his work, but it sounded interesting on the front flap.
10) Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, by V.S. Naipaul.
11) A Hero of Our Time, by Lermontov. One of my favorites, plus it's translated by Nabokov and has a beautiful picture on the cover. It's got one of those paper bindings that just feels nice in your hands.
12) 3 Doonesbury Collections, two from the 2000s and one from 1978-1980ish. I haven't read the most recent comics, but I'd already read most of the older one from the smaller collections I have. 9/11 was covered in the more recent collections.
I'm headed to TN tomorrow to visit my grandparents and attend the regional ASME conference. I'm driving down with a friend I'll collect from Tech, and taking some people also attending the conference to meet my grandparents. They want to meet my friends, and Granddad is a Mechanical Engineer- went to Tech himself, in '46- with really cool stories about the space program and nuclear power plants. I read a biography of Werner von Braun with him- he read it and annotated it for me. That was really neat- plus, when we go to the Air and Space museum in DC, he points out the satellites he worked on himself.
Have a nice weekend.
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