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paul_milander · Joined: 16 Mar 2008 Posts: 566 Location: Shippensburg, PA

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Animal Farm by George Orwell

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shirer

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill
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Jo · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 107 Location: Chambersburg

A friend found 2 old books at a book sale. Volumes 1 and 3 of a Lewis and Clark historic series. Very cool. I found Volume 2 on line and now have the whole set. I LOVE BOOK SALES!!

Anyone have any favorite book sale events or book shops?
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

i love the book sale held at wilson over mothers day. state college had a fun book sale too, but wilson's was nice imo. (less walking with bags of books lol...the one in s.c. i'd typically get less cuz i didn't want to walk 4 miles with heavy load)....i usually go to the 'first day' of the wilson sale and get what i can't live without then i go sunday for the bag of books day....fun fun!

and i've hit up pretty much all of the used book stores around here and am a borders hermit in hagerstown as well from time to time.

yes, i know i'm an exciting person. lol....

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2842 Location: Chambersburg

I probably should tell ya'll this, but at the end of Fall semesters (or more specifically in January) sometimes spring and in early August, late July, the professors at Wilson clean out their offices.
They put books (text and regular) that they no longer want outside their offices for others to take. The point is to pass them on once you're finished with them yourself.

Speaking of which, I have boxes and boxes I need to 'pass on', but I have no office door! I'm leaning towards donating them to the library.
It's weird how protective and possessive I can get over books. I think it has something to do with feeling like I had to get rid of some about ten years ago. I'm trying to be better about not being a hoarder. Very Happy

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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

i'll take any arty books Very Happy

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

(whispers: i am a book horder, too, cybersisterchel....um...i decided at my house i didn't need a dining room so i made a library instead...a VERY wise decision)

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2842 Location: Chambersburg

sigh.

Cookie, you are sooo much better than my real sisters.

Every once in awhile I ponder the fact that sometimes you share blood with people you wouldn't normally bother with. People you would avoid like the plague, if only you weren't forced to see them at every family function.

Has anyone here ever seen 'Home for the Holidays' with Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr.? This one came out in the 90's. I understand another, less better movie has been realized with the same more recently.

(yes, I know less better isn't proper---I don't feel like being proper today.)
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

omg....that is like...one of my fav movies. SO FUNNY. so true. hehe

here's to cybersisterhood! since i'm a lonely only, i'm glad to have a cybersistah. Wink

a movie on that theme that i enjoyed was The Family Stone. God, i love dysfunction.

it's super!

Laughing Man · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 462 Location: Earth

is it wrong that i couldn't decide which leather bound Crime and Punishment I liked most so I bought both making 4 copies total?
I also bought another Faust becaues I liked the font and the paper was old and had an interesting texture (I've got like ten copies of this book though that isn't all my fault, the first copy was a ***-poor translation, the second was better, the third was in the middle english and the the others came becaust of great prices and cool covers.... totally out of my hands.)
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

i don't see anything wrong with it.

i have 2 copies of "The Blue Castle" (my fav book) 'just in case' something happens to it.

i have 4 copies of "Pride and Prejudice" (as above)

and i have quite a few books that i buy just because i like the look or the feel of them. i see the love of books as twofold...one to read them and two for them just being there for us.

hence the rooms of books in my house. Smile

what else could give us words in our silence?

Jo · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 107 Location: Chambersburg

I won't tell you how many copies I have of the Lewis and Clark Journals...its almost ocd Embarassed

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Laughing Man · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 462 Location: Earth

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1936 Location: shippensburg

um, pride and prejudice rox.

and mr. darcy *sigh*

haha.....god, i love austen....