Member: copernicus

They can indeed. Or rather, they could indeed. It was a one day thing, and it was only by chance that I found myself there. Apparently, there's a much bigger one in April every year. I have a vague recollection of hearing the old lady in charge saying "twenty thousand books," though where on earth they'd get them from in beyond me. Most of those on sale two weeks ago were those old orange Penguins, which I think is great.

posted by disillusionedlefty at 4:35 pm (EST) on Nov 1, 2006

Seems it, it being Library Thing, played an embarrassing trick on me.

posted by disillusionedlefty at 7:19 am (EST) on Oct 31, 2006

I'm well beyond the 200 now; the Trinity booksale gave me about 20 books for a very reasonable six euro. Four Waughs, two DH Lawrences, two Orwells, a Voltaire, a Montaigne and some other odd bits and pieces. I also found myself in the Hoggis basement buying some cheap Robbie Burns and some cheaper Walt Whitman. Today, too, I had to pay library fines for keeping four Beckett collections for what was deemed too long. In Easons, we stock really attractive compendiums of Larkin, Eliot, Hughes, Plath and Yeats, all of which I'm struggling to resist.

The problem is my credit card; I don't have one. I'll point the parents this way next time I'm getting T-Shirts.

posted by disillusionedlefty at 3:04 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2006

I suspect that, with more effort, I may stumble upon it. Perhaps incorrectly, I browsed only the Crime section in Waterstones. In any case, the rest of the visit was a fine example in Nabokovian urge. I knew I shouldn't have, but I bought five of his books, leaving room for little else.

posted by disillusionedlefty at 2:15 pm (EST) on Aug 20, 2006

Just thought I'd say so 3 times, to make sure. In any case, I couldn't find it in Waterstones yesterday. Am I to be forced into using Amazon?

posted by disillusionedlefty at 6:14 am (EST) on Aug 19, 2006

This Mortdecai Trilogy doesn't sound like something I'd ever have bought, but you were right about Clive James, so I will of course give it a shot starting tomorrow.

posted by disillusionedlefty at 7:38 pm (EST) on Aug 17, 2006

For sure. I'm still waiting for RW to set up his user profile.

I've run out of lying around books to catalogue. Everything else is in boxes and will probably remain there until after I move house (if I achieve this much desired goal).

posted by copernicus at 11:30 am (EST) on Aug 13, 2006

I now share 30 books with you. It strikes me that this book ownership audit could end up as a better guide to mental compatibility than anything else.

posted by editor_tupp at 11:11 am (EST) on Aug 13, 2006