Shopping Spree
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desayunoencamaToday I bought twenty four books and one bed.
I also threw out the previous bed. What a relief!
The new bed is a sofa-futon, that my nearly-70-year-old Dad helped me carry home. Firm mattress, and more practical for a studio apartment since it can fold up and be additional seating. (Also, it is longer than the current couch, which is not good for cuddling.)
The books bought were:
Nancy Willard's ANGEL IN THE PARLOR, a collection of her stories and essays. Willard is amazing.
Rumer Godden's PIPPA PASSES, which I hadn't ever heard of, seems to be a juvenile.
Jonathan Kellerman's DEVIL WALTZ, part of the Alex Delaware series
Fay Weldon's A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER
Jonathan Carroll's KISISNG THE BEEHIVE (I forget why I skipped this when it came out since I have everything he's published since)
Tamora Pierce: all 4 of the Lioness Rampant quartet, plus the last two volumes of the Circle of Magic (I've already read the first two), plus the 4th volume of the Immortals quartet (already read 1-3), plus the first PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL (I have the 2nd; still missing 3 and 4).
Marcia Muller: THE BROKEN PROMISE LAND and PENNIES ON A DEAD WOMAN'S EYES and then, coauthored with her husband, DOUBLES
Elizabeth A. Lynn's DRAGON's WINTER
Hilari Bell's A MATTER OF PROFIT, her first adult SF (I'd enjoyed an earlier YA, SONGS OF POWER, well enough to give this a try)
Carolyn Hart's APRIL FOOL DEAD, part of her Death on Demand series, which I can tolerate just fine and bought for when I run out of other things to read although I much prefer the Joan Hess CLare Molloy's
Ruth Rendell's A GUILTY THING SURPRISED, an Inspector Wexford I hadn't heard of (I'd found another Wexford, A SLEEPING LIFE, last week; and I thought I'd already finished that series...)
Paula Danziger's AMBER BROWN IS FEELING BLUE, which I seem to have missed somehow (very good chapter book series)
And then two poetry collections, HUSH by David St. John (adult) and a funny poems by X. J. Kennedy book.
In all it came to only $25. Not including the bed. (Not all bought at the same stores, either, even just for the books...)
I also threw out the previous bed. What a relief!
The new bed is a sofa-futon, that my nearly-70-year-old Dad helped me carry home. Firm mattress, and more practical for a studio apartment since it can fold up and be additional seating. (Also, it is longer than the current couch, which is not good for cuddling.)
The books bought were:
Nancy Willard's ANGEL IN THE PARLOR, a collection of her stories and essays. Willard is amazing.
Rumer Godden's PIPPA PASSES, which I hadn't ever heard of, seems to be a juvenile.
Jonathan Kellerman's DEVIL WALTZ, part of the Alex Delaware series
Fay Weldon's A HARD TIME TO BE A FATHER
Jonathan Carroll's KISISNG THE BEEHIVE (I forget why I skipped this when it came out since I have everything he's published since)
Tamora Pierce: all 4 of the Lioness Rampant quartet, plus the last two volumes of the Circle of Magic (I've already read the first two), plus the 4th volume of the Immortals quartet (already read 1-3), plus the first PROTECTOR OF THE SMALL (I have the 2nd; still missing 3 and 4).
Marcia Muller: THE BROKEN PROMISE LAND and PENNIES ON A DEAD WOMAN'S EYES and then, coauthored with her husband, DOUBLES
Elizabeth A. Lynn's DRAGON's WINTER
Hilari Bell's A MATTER OF PROFIT, her first adult SF (I'd enjoyed an earlier YA, SONGS OF POWER, well enough to give this a try)
Carolyn Hart's APRIL FOOL DEAD, part of her Death on Demand series, which I can tolerate just fine and bought for when I run out of other things to read although I much prefer the Joan Hess CLare Molloy's
Ruth Rendell's A GUILTY THING SURPRISED, an Inspector Wexford I hadn't heard of (I'd found another Wexford, A SLEEPING LIFE, last week; and I thought I'd already finished that series...)
Paula Danziger's AMBER BROWN IS FEELING BLUE, which I seem to have missed somehow (very good chapter book series)
And then two poetry collections, HUSH by David St. John (adult) and a funny poems by X. J. Kennedy book.
In all it came to only $25. Not including the bed. (Not all bought at the same stores, either, even just for the books...)
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Date: 2004-02-22 05:42 am (UTC)As for the Wexfords, Rendell is still writing them.
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Date: 2004-02-22 07:03 am (UTC)Having not read the book in question, of course, I don't knopw whether there are other reasons it's not YA, though.
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Date: 2004-02-22 05:10 pm (UTC)I'd hate to have to define what I mean here, because it's a complex thing to do with values and expectations, and not detail or anything like that -- the place sex has in the narrative and the emotional balance of where it is seems quite unlike what I see in juveniles written either now or earlier.
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Date: 2004-02-22 05:21 pm (UTC)My copy (and browsing online) seems to indicate it was first published in 1994, which is when it's copyright, with no indication of an earlier edition or a renewal of copyright.
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Date: 2004-02-22 05:44 pm (UTC)I don't know what you mean about sex, because I'm not sure that there's a standard YA treatment of it, now, and because the way Pippa Passes treated sex just basically struck me as the most implausible and alien treatment I'd ever read anywhere.
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Date: 2004-02-22 08:08 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-23 09:58 am (UTC)---L.