Books You've Mooched

What books have you mooched?

Are any of them from fellow LibraryThing members?

So far, I'm expecting copies of If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon; and The First World War, by John Keegan. I also requested 1700: Scenes from London Life, from a fellow Thingamabrarian.

I just received Southern Fire and Kissing the Witch in the mail today, and am still expecting Moonheart. I have no idea if they were mooched from LT members. ^^;

The two books I sent, The Name of the Rose and Obernewtyn, have not arrived at their destination yet, either. *nervous*

Ah. I wouldn't worry. Sometimes books take time.

I'm waiting on Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: Hong Kong by DK Publishing (think it'll be here tomorrow or Monday I can't wait!), and I hope to have Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen mooched this weekend (just deciding on which copy I want), and a book by Haruki Murakami

I've sent:
Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice (on pins and needles too for it to arrive at it's destination)
Tomorrow I'm putting Sex And the Single Witch by Theresa Alan in the mail to New Orlean! Feel like I ought to send her another book free too, since when did they get mail service? Thanks for reporting that CNN! I feel bad cause I'd hate to be there without a stash of books to read.

I just received Bone Dance by Emma Bull, my first mooched book. I'm waiting on a couple of others. I have sent out one so far, The Gilded Chain by Dave Duncan.

I'm tagging my books available for mooching "bookmooch", and my mooched books "mooched".

Yeah, I've started tagging them too. Really gotta keep organized, plus if someone knows you here, and see's you have it tagged, they'll go over to bookmooch to get your copy.

Mine are tagged bookmooch me

Ohh, lets see..
6 books by Will Self
Exile in Guyville, by Dave White (very funny, reading now)
Sexy Origins and Intimate Things by Charles Panati
Et Tu by Mark Leyner
Please Kill Me (the oral uncensored history of Punk)
I am Alive and You are Dead (A Journey Into the Mind of Phillip K Dick
Blue Movie by Terry Southern
I have been very active on Bookmooch..my name is Susan. I am from the US and I have a lot of books listed on BM so far not sure if anyone is from LT
Eurydice... that Chabon book is great!

That's a good idea, amandaellis.

So far I've had four books mooched: 3 from a guy in Boston (I'm in Australia) and one from an aussie. BookMooch is really the coolest thing after LibraryThing.

The 3 mooched by the Boston guy, which I sent last week, were Raymond Chandlers. I'm not really into genre fiction, although I enjoyed them when I bought them. The one mooched from WA is a history book that I originally bought because of my interest in Jane Austen: 'High Society in the Regency Period 1788-1830'.

Oh and I'm waiting on three: Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz, Hiroshima by John Hersey, and The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann. They're all being sent by people in the U.S., so that's 6 points. But there's only about 1000 books available from people in Australia, so the U.S. is the place to shop.

Also, I find I'm really impatient. If the person with the book in inventory doesn't reply within a day or so, I cancel the mooch. Ruthless!

I'm waiting to receive The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Hopefully I'll get a confirmation about these soon... I'm embarking on Murdoch's The Unicorn in anticipation :D

I added the swap funtion to my catalog and added some books people have on their BM wishlists that I realized I could live with losing. Still waiting for someone to mooch from me.

I've been tagging books in my inventory BMoochable, but only books I'm just as happy to keep are in my LT catalog. Many are going to get shipped out soon, one way or t'other!

Afinpassing: do you have Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat? Mine's an older paperback, yellowing a bit, but otherwise good. I could stand to have it mooched. :) Also, if so, would be happy to steal one or two I see of yours - first, if necessary. I've only one point at the moment, but can at least relieve you of one of the books.... just need to deliberate, first! :)

Antipodean, I find it rather amusing that someone mooched Raymond Chandler all the way from Australia - when there are plenty of his books in America! But all the better, I suppose; and I'm glad, for you. I'd never want to stop people from acquiring Chandler, either. :)

I've already found, a couple of times, that books I was interested in would have to ship from Australia (or France, or Japan, or - more often - the UK). I haven't done it yet, on account of the point cost, and the fact that some of the books simply could be bought here for less than the shipping; so to mooch them would seem wasteful, and make me feel guilty. I've still not sorted that one out....

Heh heh, I came back here to tell you I had my eye on your Murdoch! Next time I get my hands on a point I would love to snatch it up -- so if that makes anything in my inventory more tempting, you'll get a point back ;)

Afinpassing: All the better, since, as you see, I really do want two. :) Convenient, this!

Do you have, as well as wishlists, a long shelf of books in your own 'mental library'? Books you 'almost' own, should own, though as yet you don't? Both of these are in mine - and so take a certain precedence over mere 'wishes.' I'm very glad to see them.

After mooching Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz, I received a message from the inventory owner to say it would be delayed: "I'm just out of town till the 18th."

And the same thing happened when I mooched Hiroshima by John Hersey. "I'm currently overseas and won't be home for about another seven weeks," he wrote. Damn. This book I want soon.

I guess they're busy. But I want those books!

How frustrating. I guess they didn't think to set up the automated 'status message' before leaving...

Seven weeks seems pretty long.

I really like the concept of a mental library. I think in these terms, but the list is pretty short. It's composed of the handful of books I wish I were reading RIGHT NOW, even though there are plenty of books I haven't read already in my possession. (Another angle on book lust, I suppose!) Eg, I just finished reading Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald's letters, so Save Me the Waltz, Tender is the Night &c are foremost in my mental library because I need to read them before all the backstory goes out of my head.

Actually, my need for books is very much in line with the BM wishlist vs save-for-later designations, so that works out very nicely for me!

Just got in the mail today:
Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides: Hong Kong by DK Publishing
&
Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen

IT'S JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS!

I find it rather amusing that someone mooched Raymond Chandler all the way from Australia - when there are plenty of his books in America! But all the better, I suppose; and I'm glad, for you. I'd never want to stop people

Raymond Chandler books are still in high demand, he is the best, why is it so hard to figure? There are many RC books I would just LOVE to request, if you have them in your library, please..POST THEM@BM!

Thanks in advance!

They're all gone! He received them today (or yesterday, or whatever).

Matahari: I agree Raymond Chandler is marvelous. That's why I won't be posting any of my Chandler collection. Apologies. But it's comparatively expensive to buy, sell, or mooch them from Australia. I've managed to assemble mine here, in the country where he wrote them. That's all I had in mind. As I said, it's good for Antipodean, and good for Chandler and the reader: who am I to object? :)

No doubt there are people less attached to their collections than I am to mine. I hope you've put the books on your wishlist, as just seeing them wanted may tempt someone to give.

Opinicus: congratulations! For me, The First World War arrived yesterday.

Afinpassing: my 'mental library' is odd. It's composed of books which belong in unseen spaces on my shelves; things I've incorporated into my very sense of what my library is. As if I indeed owned them. They may or may not be the most exciting and urgently wanted volumes, I may even let them hang in unseen limbo for years: but they belong. Clarissa belongs in any library with an interest in the early history and development of the novel, or in 18th century literature, or with any liking for Samuel Richardson at all. It's a major and important novel, with a lot of influence on those to follow, if only by reaction against it. Aside from which, he made admirable use of the epistolary form even in Pamela, earlier. This is one I genuinely look forward to reading, despite the length. (In case anyone actually cares: I recently discovered that Broadview published Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela along with Fielding's hilarious Shamela. Definite wishlist territory.)

My wishlist and save-for-laters are less definite than the mental library: fun to talk about as concepts, but on which I am probably destined to bore! :)

84, Charing Cross Road, Clarissa, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay all arrived today. (Wonderful!) I haven't expended the effort of adding them to my library (as 'LibraryThing Add', via BookMooch, only nets you multiple copies of Every Visible Thing, as yet). I'd be happy to own it, but certainly don't, thus far. Somehow, I feel a little tired for the tagging, anyway.

Anything new for the rest of you?

I have a Richard Florida coming from the US and an out of print Cate Dermody. Can't wait :)

I've gotten a few, let's see if I can remember them all:

- Courtesan
- The Virgin's Lover
- The Constant Princess (which I am currently reading)
- Messenger of Truth
- Sex With Kings
- French Women Don't Get Fat
- Faith and Treason

Only issue I've had was that the copy of Courtesan was an icky 'digital book proof' which wasn't noted when posted. I've since obtained a real copy of that book and it's joined the others on Mt Bookmore.

I'm anxiously awaiting four more books:
- London: The Biography which is coming from Aus, so it could be a while
- Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
- The Great Stink which I had checked out from my library but wasn't able to finish before it was, so I got myself a copy to read at my leisure
- Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led; I'm a closet Dianaphile, so one more which I haven't read to add to my collection. :)

My sister-in-law won a bottle of 1981 champagne on Friday. It's a Charles and Diana commemorative bottle :)

What does one do with that?

>>My sister-in-law won a bottle of 1981 champagne on Friday. It's a Charles
>>and Diana commemorative bottle :)

>>What does one do with that?

Send to me to add to my collection of 'tacky' Chas & Di memoribilia. *g*

Hehe. Mooching booze :)

this book mooching is definitely a thing to be envied. even if this thing is open for non-us residents, shipping a book abroad will definitely make a dent on someone's budget if you're as far as i am from us.

what i do is frequent second-hand bookshops. a lot cheaper and imagine the thrill when you find something you've been looking for in a long time!

good evening, ladies!

n.e.s.s., I adore used bookshops. But, frankly, several of the books I've recieved, because of age and condition, would have been priced several dollars above anything I've paid in shipping, thus far, if sold at my favorite used bookstore. For newer or hard-to-find titles, BookMooch is actually marvelous.

It is open to non-US residents, and there seem to be a lot of them, using the service. Particularly Australians. :) One of the options is to mark that you ship primarily within your own country, but can be asked about international shipping when the book is small or rare. Usual book exchange rate within the same country is 1 point; but to mooch a book from another country costs 2, and credits the sender with 3. It may not be worthwhile for sending heavy or commonplace books, of course, but I'd be surprised if it was not worth it occasionally. If you DO find it enviable, give it a closer look. :) You may be pleasantly surprised.

On the subject of actual books mooched:

If on a winter's night a traveler came yesterday, and was retrieved from the office today. (Usually they just stick them in my mail box.)

marcinyc, I see one or two threads running through your selections.... ;) I hope you and amandaellis both enjoy your books very shortly.

I'm certainly enjoying my Mooch receipts! :) Although it's time to take a break from historical fiction and come back to the 20th/21st century. I feel like I've been wading in Tudor England for quite a while lately. Not that that's a bad thing, I'm rather fond of the period and location.

I, too, enjoy used bookstores... but, when 'trading' my books for cash or credit, I get so little in return. That and the fact that where I live now doesn't have a UBS anywhere near me. That's what appeals to me about BookMooch (and other online book trading sites) -- I post the books I'm done with and get a book I'm interested in in return. i've gotten some great books this way and a couple of stinkers -- which, had I paid good money more might have irritated me slightly. With these trading sites, it simply cost me postage to send my book to someone else, thus earning a 'credit' to select a book of my choice. If I don't like it, I relist and pass it on to someone else.

I am really doing my best to clean out my house of books which I'll never read again -- sites like this are just what I needed. Of course, my husband thinks I'm not reading fast enough... I did do a major purge of books which I thought I'd never read and let them go. I haven't missed them yet. And if I do get the hankering to read them, I can just request them again.

The nicest part about these trading sites is that I've managed to get my hands on a few out-of-print titles that cost an arm and a leg on Amazon or any other used book site. Now I just need to make time to read them and pass them along to another reader.

Oh, Eurydice -- I see you rec'd 84, Charing Cross Road. Have you not read this already? I'm anxious to see what you think of it when you've finished it. I won't say more right now -- want to hear your thoughts on it at some point in the future.

Off to read now... A book, no more forums!!

Many years ago, I saw the film version done on TV (my first introduction to Pepys' Diary ). :) For a few years, anyway, I'd also intended to own it, mentally casting it under the net of possession.

I finally read it Friday night. Very charming, funny, touching. A great illustration of both book-loving and epistolary friendship. (Albeit muted, somewhat, by the context.) Interestingly edited, also, I think... More thoughts can be scrounged up at your will; leaving just the barest response, for now. It did make me ready for more Hanff, if that says anything...

I just received my first mooched book--Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry. (How funny--I just noticed that the author's first name is misspelled "Malcom" on the front cover!)

I'm still waiting to hear of the arrival of the three books I've mailed out, but they went book rate, so I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

I came home to find FOUR new books waiting for me today! :D (I really do imagine books traveling just as they do on the BM front page cartoon, and I welcome them just the same ;)

This Side of Paradise -- F Scott Fitzgerald
A Fairly Honourable Defeat -- Iris Murdoch (thanks, Eurydice!!)
The Black Prince -- Iris Murdoch
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit -- Jeanette Winterson

Nice haul! & expecting a few more this week. Absolutely addicted!

I requested Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman today - a book I've wanted for ages. Haven't heard back, but hopes are high.

Great to hear of arrivals, especially mine ;), and I am amazed at how willing I become to go to the post office, when I'm delivered books in return. Certainly, like you, Lauren, I welcome them with open arms!

I'm eagerly awaiting my first mooch to arrive, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, for a LT book read.

No one seems to have it on BookMooch, but if anyone has a copy of Looking for China by Judy Schultz, I would love to take it off your hands. I've lost (lent) my copy and no one seems to know where it is.

So far I have received a delightful five mooched books:

Simon Schama's Rough Crossings
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife
Adria Bernardi's The Day Laid on the Altar
Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

Does anyone have a recommendation of where I should start? It feels like such an embarassment of riches.

I should note that one of the delightful things about BookMooch is that it has allowed me to acquire more hardback nonfiction, which I would never, ever have bought.

sycoraxpine asked: Does anyone have a recommendation of where I should start? It feels like such an embarassment of riches.

Sadly, I've only read one of those on your mooched list, so my recommendation would be The Time Traveler's Wife. I'll be curious to know what you think of it when you finish. I liked it a lot, but didn't love it. Still, it probably was one of my favourite reads of 2005. Yikes! Was it that long ago I read it?

I just mooched A Century of Noir which is on it's way. From Bookins I grabbed - Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell and Savage Night by Jim Thompson which are also in the mail! :)

afinpassing:

I would be interested to hear your impression of The Black Prince. I love Iris Murdoch's work in general, but disliked this one - a sentiment shared by the group with whom I read it.

devilbuny, I envy you the Century of Noir. Last time I searched, there wasn't anything good to grab. Speaking of Jim Thompson, I've just listed a copy of The Getaway, in case you or anyone else is interested.

1700: Scenes from London Life arrived for me yesterday, and - again - was fetched today. From the little I've read, it was an extremely good mooch!

Alais I would mooch it but no one seems to like my inventory and I don't have enough points. :( Must find other books to add to get my points back up. But then you have to keep your mooched to mooch ratio up to keep getting books. Am I really that off the wall that no one wants my duplicates?? :)~

Devilbuny, I see that someone else, with 8 points, has The Simple Art of Murder on his wishlist. I'd remind him (and anyone else for whom the same is true) about books they've requested which you're offering.

The nice thing is, you can mooch something like 4 books for each one you give, provided you have the points. :) Not bad! (Though I do have trouble keeping points, or finding very much to get rid of.) The 1/10th for each acknowledgement on receipt is nice.

I'd add more inventory, if you can. But also, if the offer to trade for a book I want more urgently falls through, I'll take either The Simple Art of Murder or the John D. MacDonald off your hands. Whichever is more of a help. I ought to begin reading 'the other MacDonald' anyway. :)

I know that the one book is on someone's wish list - I sent him two reminders and haven't heard anything. Maybe this weekend I will have some more time to upload books here and root out the odd ones and the dupes for trading. Haven't read The Simple Art of Murder yet but I can voch that One Monday We Killed Them All is a very good book. I'm just the opposite of you - I have a ton of John D. MacDonald books and need to read some Ross MacDonald.

If I haven't heard back by later tonight, I'll mooch it from you, then. Given that you like Margaret Millar, it seems necessary to at least try him. :) One of my own favorites was a transitional book, The Doomsters. Not as famous as some, but very good.

I finally received my 1st 2 mooches!---South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance byErnest Shackleton and Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron. They were both brand new books. They are another step in my attempt to collect books from a list I found of Natl. Geo. top 100 true adventure stories.
Now I am mooching Eric Newby Love and War in the Apennines which is not on the list but was a great adventure.
Also most of the books I have sent out have been received so I can relax that this is going to be as great as it seems. (just a bit nervous about the books that haven't been received yet)

I'm excited for November, when I will temporarily move back in with my parents, because I have plenty of books there to put in my inventory. I sent out two books yesterday (including one to Canada, meaning 3 points for me: yay!) and am putting one more in the mail today. Last night I requested my first book, Artemis Fowl. I was curious to see if I would like it and didn't want to spend the money, so we'll see how it goes.

I've been reading the second of two mooched books I've loved, 1700: Scenes from London Life. As this was one I found by looking at inventory, and hadn't heard of before, I'm especially thrilled about it. Can't wait to get to the others. There are three still to come - and then on to the problem of building points again!

My other two books made it to their destinations so "hurrah".

Given and received:
Sex, lies and vampires, Snipped in the bud and Charmed to death

Received:
Ghost Sister

In the mail for me:
Guardian of Honor, Seraphim, Alternate Realities and The Hob's Bargain

Awaiting response:
Convergence

Bookmooch is so cool. Currently I only have OOP wishlist books on it but it's addictive. Oh and I'm wyvernfriend there too.

wyvernfriend, you mooched Convergence from me! I just got back from the post office, went to LT, and saw your message.

I've also sent Norwegian Wood and Candy and Me, and am waiting on A Live Coal in the Sea and Web Design in a Nutshell. For a while I was whining that no one wanted any of my books, but I suppose I'm not doing too bad, really. Of course, I've still got two boxes of books that I'd really like to get rid of that no one's interested in... That's the disadvantage to using BookMooch, I suppose.

(Edited to fix touchstones... I hope.)

Man! BookMooch is a serious thrill!

Just got Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto. Thought I was all excited cause I'd jsut come from my dinky hometown library where I discovered they had Yoshimoto & Haruki Murakami, but then I got the mail!

I've gotten 3 emails that Murakami's Norwegian Wood was available, and it was mooched SO FAST! Once while I was cleaning the bathroom, and the other in the time it takes to get a cup of coffee! AND the third while I was at the library checking it out! I wanted it to be the first book, I read by the author, and apparently it's quite popular. I thought I was the only one hovering over my email waiting for it to become available!

Hi Ellen.w, thanks for that book. I know how you mean, so many books and people don't want them, ah well, as it grows so will the demand!

Today, I mooched Dude, Where's My Country and got confirmation that a moocher had received Minority Report and 18 other stories by Philip K. Dick. I'm looking forward to late next week when (hopefully) my books will arrive!

I just received Still Waters and Body of Lies yesterday and did a happy dance in the middle of my driveway. I have Kushiel's Scion, The Immortal, and hopefully Lord John and the Private Matter arriving soon.

I've sent out about 5 books so far and have 70 more to be mooched - so get to grabbing, people! :-D

I received my first mooch yesterday, Kitchen, but have yet to be mooched from. I have this fear that I've accidentally erased requests that I thought were junk/spam. Hope not!

No worries, sandragon! You can log into BM and click on the Pending tab and see everything that is awaiting your attention. I lurk that page in the most OCD way possible. ;)

*chuckling* Thanks imaginelove. I can see BM is going to take as much out of my actual reading time available as LT!

I had one BM message jump into my junkmail folder so it is worth clicking on the 'member home' to make sure you don't have any new messages.

Here's an update on my new acquisitions (can't believe I've mooched so many in such a short period of time):

Death Kit - Susan Sontag
The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag
Regarding the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag (I'm on a bit of a kick, can you tell? ;)
The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury - Sigrid Nunez
The Collected Plays of Lillian Hellman
Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner

Whew, I'm going to be busy! :)

Excellent, excellent... afinpassing, can I steal some of your books?!? ;)

(sigh) I know, I need to mooch my own. Trouble keeping and getting points is, of course WHOLLY at fault... (I couldn't be. ;) )

Let me know how you find Mitz and the Sontags, especially: I've been meaning to buy some Sontag, and thought about Mitz briefly.

Sivani -- I'm 70 pages into The Black Prince (first Murdoch actually read, after studiously acquiring a bunch! ;) and I have to say, I really love it. Her style is delightful, instantly absorbing, and somehow I love every word I read even though I am pretty sure I dislike the narrator. :) I'll have to come back with more details once I've finished it, but so far so good.

Eurydice -- a couple times recently I have done a random search on BM and came across books in your inventory -- I think I will be mooching you Ishiguro after all with my next point or so. How did you like it? I have only read The Remains of the Day from him so far, which I loved, but though there are notable differences between them, my opinion was probably colored by my preexisting love for the film.

Will definitely report back on the Sontags and Mitz -- hadn't even heard of the latter; an interesting find in one of my obsessively frequent searches for Woolf... :)

I sent off Geek Love by Katherine Dunn today, and I sent for My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir. I am still waiting for In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon and the sender wrote he was delayed putting it in the mail due to a trip to Disneyland.
Has anyone else succumbed to the Amazon link? When I couldn't find many of my adventure books to mooch I took a look at Amazon and ended up buying three books from sellers there. I felt a bit guilty about spending the money but they were all published by The Adventure Library and in good shape. I felt better when I saw one of them at used book store for more than what I paid including postage. I got and The Mountain of my Fears and Deborah by David Roberts and The White Nile and Cooper's Creek both by Alan Moorehead

I've mooched 3 books so far:

The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman
Language Visible by David Sacks
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

So far, nobody has mooched me. My id there is: krin5292

And today in the post there was Hob's Bargain and Convergence wow that was fast!

In addition to Under the Volcano (above), I've now received Arcadia by Jim Crace, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Still waiting for The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst) and Under the Skin (Michel Faber).

So far, I've sent out Tender at the Bone (Ruth Reichl), Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer), Out (Natsuo Kirino), What Was She Thinking? (Zoe Heller), The Widow of the South (Robert Hicks), and Real Thai: The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking.

I've been talking up BookMooch (and LibraryThing, of course!) to everyone I know.

> I've been talking up BookMooch (and LibraryThing, of course!) to everyone I know.

Me too. I recruited another LTer last night. I think I'm up to 8 so far?

Katbook I've been falling for the Amazon trap too :) My partner is worse though:

Me: Hey check out this book I can get you on BookMooch.
Him: This is cool. I'm just gonna buy it on Amazon.
Me: But it was only two points!
Him: Already done.

Yayy! I've been mooched from. This week I sent away What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert Wolke and Partnership by Anne McCaffrey. Who thought one could get so excited about spending money to give away books?

On the other hand, I'm expecting several in return:

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell by Lyall Watson
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

I find that most of the books I mooch are ones I'm trying out from recommendations here on LT talk. Thanks everyone!

Ooooer! Midnight in the garden is so good. You definately have to see the film.

amandaellis wrote: Ooooer! Midnight in the garden is so good. You definately have to see the film.

Or better yet, make a trip to Savannah. My husband's obsessed with going to Savannah. Especially since he learnt that their St Patrick's Day parade/celebration is second only to that in NYC.

I'd love that! Add to wishlist :)

Blech. The book and movie are great, but Savannah is fun for about two days and then the river stinks and the streets are too crowded with drunk college kids and general lowlifes. Last time I was there, I was attending a week long conference at Savannah College of Art and Design and while the school and architecture were definitely worth seeing, I wouldn't have been able to fill up a week without classes. I hear they don't even dye the river green any more for St. Patty's any longer because between the dye and the sewage, fish were dying in droves.

Although - there is nothing bad I can say about SCAD (other than the price tag.) I learned PhotoShop and got to draw my first nudes ever. Pretty cool for a high school Junior and it looks great on my resume that I was part of the magnet group that got to go. The campus is hands down the prettiest and best kept up part of town.

I mooched Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America the other day and got confirmation that all the rest of the books I've sent out so far (To the Nines: a Stephanie Plum novel, My First Time: Gay Men Describe their First Same-Sex Experience, and Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream) arrived safely. Nothing's arrived quite yet, but hopefully tomorrow or early next week I will find a surprise in my mailbox...

Some of you have admirable mooches: my congratulations.

afinpassing: I only read part of The Unconsoled. The style was quite different from The Remains of the Day; more like When We Were Orphans. Admirable, I think, but purposely disconcerting and disorienting. While I admire Ishiguro, and can enjoy him, I found it painfully unsettling, at the time, and it put me off further attempts at the book. - But this was some years ago. If neither you nor anyone else wants it urgently, I may decide to essay another reading before packing it off; he's worth that much (Ishiguro). I'm very glad you're enjoying (or have enjoyed) the Iris Murdoch! One of these days, I'll have to get some of her others. :)

Due to a conversation in the group on Espionage and Spy Fiction, and its connection to 84, Charing Cross Road and the SOE, which interests me, I've just mooched Between Silk and Cyanide, by Leo Marks. Also, Victorian Villainies, collected by Graham Greene and his brother Hugh Greene, will be my first international mooch. I'm sending Jack the Ripper: Case Closed to Scotland, in return.

I'm thrilled to say I finally unwrapped devilbuny's copies of The Simple Art of Murder and One Monday We Killed Them All, today! Love the covers. Serious thanks.... :)

Woot! Received both Bushwhacked and Dude, Where's My Country? today! Plus, I got The Truth (with jokes) yesterday from amazon, so yay for political reading. Seems like that's all I do now...

ETA: And Artemis Fowl came today :) No more pending transactions for me.

Hi--another rabid bookmoocher here.
I definitely have the 'kid in a candy store' --make that 'a free candy store' syndrome. I have a pile waiting to be read--and they are all books I really want to read! Talk about riches.

I'm also online at Bookins; today in the mail I got Jonathan Kellerman's Savage Spawn thru Bookins.

Other titles received through Bookmooch

Reading Lolita in Tehran for the B& N book group
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Tears of the Giraffe
Survival of the Fittest
Man's Search for Meaning
Awakening the Buddha Within
Power of Intention
Kill Me on CD

several specific books requested by deployed soldiers thru booksforsoldiers.com

I also have The Time Traveler's Wife enroute. I love knowing that it will get mooched from me when I am done reading it.

I'm sending out Foxmask and The Years of Rice and Salt tomorrow when the post office is open again; I'm really pleased that someone mooched these because they were both accidental duplicates -- I'm keeping a copy of each for myself.

I'm waiting on Pride and Prejudice (to replace my really ratty copy), Elizabeth and Mary, and marcinyc's Hip Handbags. I've also picked up Ill Met by Moonlight, Little House in Brookfield, and Passage (a deliberate duplicate, since my copy is signed).

I've sent and mooched a lot of books, but these are the ones I'm most excited about: Pink Think by Lynn Peril, Finding Serenity ; Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, and King Ink by Nick Cave. I have such a huge to-be-read pile right now...

Joss Whedon? Cool! Will have to add that to my wishlist. I can't wait till the new Buffy Season 8 comics come out!

I'm so excited; over the past few days I've gotten my first two mooch requests and mooched my first two books! I've sent Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzche, and I'm receiving volume two of Thieves & Kings by Mark Oakley and Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire. Good times.

Sounds like people are getting great things. I've just lighted on a copy of Roy Porter's The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity, which I'd wanted very much - in my own country! Also, I tentatively added The Moon and Sixpence to my mooch of Gun, with Occasional Music; and succumbed to finally reading Ayn Rand, with Atlas Shrugged. Ryvre: your volume on her sounds quite interesting.

Also, I should say, I'm enjoying my mooch of The Thieves' Opera enormously.

Oh, Eurydice, I forgot to report back on Mitz as promised! Well. I sat down and read it in one sitting the day I got it -- fun breezy read, but not necessarily recommended. As I wrote in my LT review, it sort of reads like a children's book and is only occasionally clever; doesn't offer any new information if you are already even casually interested in Woolf/Bloomsbury. I relisted it on BM because someone had it on their wishlist. They don't seem to actually want it, and if no one takes it soon I may decide to keep it. But if you are interested in it, my copy's up for grabs.

What have I mooched lately? Let's see...

On their way to me:
Herland -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Hours -- Michael Cunningham -- a favorite book I've read three times; loaned it out once and will probably never see that copy again. Excited to have it back in my collection :)
Against Interpretation -- Susan Sontag

And recently received:
Art & Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf -- Panthea Reid
Norton US Anthologies D & E (Who gives away a Norton?? ;)
Jacob's Room -- Virginia Woolf
Sexing the Cherry -- Jeanette Winterson
The Book on the Bookshelf -- Henry Petroski

Afinpassing - I think I'll pass it up, but thank you. :) You are tempting me to many mooches of books I see on your list and have also been interested in. Oh, no, I say - I really have to get that copy of Jacob's Room and The Waves, and oh, my! someone's still offering The Book on the Bookshelf! ;) All I know is, I'm glad there are people who DO give away Norton anthologies & such... The Charlotte Perkins Gilman looks tempting, too. (Only I'm down to two points, again: the list of available, wanted books is growing scary!!)

...and here I tried to help you out, Eurydice, and mooch a book from you. Don't make me mooch you again. :)

I was thrilled to get Murder in the Marais from you and have passed it to my Francophile pal who I am sure will enjoy it. Thanks for helping me spread the booklove.

I'm still anxiously awaiting London: The Biography but it's coming from Australia via slow boat. I'm so hoping it's worth the wait.

You did help me out, and thank you! How do you think the list of books mooched came into being? :) (Not that I'd ever stop anyone mooching... ;) )

London: The Biography is the one on my own wishlist which I've hesitated about. There's another copy in the UK. I keep wondering about relative costs, and thinking about how unlikely I'll be to read it before the new year.... I do hope it's good. Let us know - when you do see it - what you think.

Eurydice -- ooooh, get The Waves some time, if not that copy -- it's my favorite book of all time and, like The Hours, I gave it away once only to regret it later! I'm keeping an eye out for that one, and you'd also have to fight my other friend on BM, Lani, who's angling for a copy. Think I'll have to bow out and buy myself a brand new copy... ;)

The Book on the Bookshelf is fascinating! I've been reading it on and off since I got it and would definitely recommend it.

Such a good mooching day! This morning I found the second Elfquest novelization and this evening I found the prequel to Jeff Smith's Bone books. Good times. I'm hoping I get some requests soon, too; I feel a bit bad that I've requested such lovely books but only sent out two. I've been listing scads of stuff, though, so hopefully someone else will bite soon.

Edited to correct some typos.

Afinpassing: done. I've always been interested in Jacob's Room, too. I'll think about The Book on the Bookshelf a little longer, as I've a spate of recent mooched non-fiction, and can't bear to part with that last point (yet!).

Xicanti: wish you the best of luck. :)

London: The Biography is one of my favorites of all time. That is one book that will never appear in my moochables. If you are not already in love with London, you will be. Fear not, it is worth waiting for, it is worth two points - mooch it from anyone misguided enough to offer it. You will learn fascinating things about that city you've never thought you'd want to know. (You'll even learn the true name of the statue in Picadilly Circus - a trivia fact that can win you a drink in any pub -- even in London!)

Thank you, artisan. :) Someone else mooched to available copy, but it waits on my wishlist - for points, and someone to offer it up, again. I may, of course, break down and buy it, soon... add it to my Christmas wishes.... something. :)

I've wanted to acquire a small collection of the best books about London. - Select, rather than exhaustive. And this has definitely appeared to be one of them. A London book I won't give up is V.S. Pritchett's London Perceived. When I round up my best books read this year, and give them a few comments each - that will be on the list. The other I most want at the moment is Virginia Woolf's The London Scene, newly reprinted a few months ago. Before I leave the subject, do you (or does anyone) have an opinion on Roy Porter's London: a Social History? Just curious.

As I'd love to increase my inventory, if I could, I do look through my books now and again. Sometimes I see things that are wanted and nod my head, approvingly enough; or look wistful, thinking 'I'd part with that, but I can't break my collection up...' Only, now and then, you see a book you really love, listed. And the answer is quite strong: No, I'm sorry, can't have that! ;) THAT I really can't part with!

Eurydice- you've got a couple more points now. I just mooched When We Were Orphans and The Unconsoled from you. I mooched Never Let Me Go a few weeks ago, and I'm in love with Kazuo Ishiguro's writing style.

I had a couple weeks of mooch limbo when it seemed no one was getting my sent books yet and I wasn't recieving my mooches. Then last week most of my sent books arrived at their destinations and I recieved 9 books inone day! It was mooch Christmas.
I got The Three Sisters (Virago Modern Classics) by May Sinclair to move my Virago "collection" from 2 to 3. (Thanks again Maggie O!)
2&3 were art books for teens I work with- Realistic collage : step by step and The Instant Artist.
4 was for my spy interest My father the spy : an investigative memoir.
5 was If you lived here, I'd know your name : news from small-town Alaska. (travel)

(Continued)
6 was The remarkable baobab by Thomas Pakenham just because I like those trees.
7 was The rescue artist : a true story of art, thieves, and the hunt for a missing masterpiece which explains itself.
8 was The Crisis : The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam
9 was New York, New York: The City in Art and Literature by Metropolitan Museum of Art which my daughter mooched from me after helping me open all my packages.
I think I'll lay low for awhile

New York, New York was from me, katbook (although I go by a different name on BookMooch)! I am glad your daughter is enjoying it....

Ryvre, I tried to post this before, but sincerest thanks. Never let me go could be, if not the title, perhaps a subtitle on each of Ishiguro's works! :) It's hard giving up The Unconsoled, but that's what I get for letting it sit on my shelves for six years, unread! I flipped through a few pages to make sure all was in order before wrapping them up, and agree: he's alluring, enchanting. One of these days, I may mooch a copy of it, myself! ;) But for now, London: the Biography not being available, I've requested a pair of classic books on novels and writing. As I am going to start the madness of drafting a first novel in a month, come the first, it seemed appropriate.

Thus, we can add Aspects of the Novel and On Becoming a Novelist to my pile of mooches.

Katbook and sycoraxpine: I was tempted by New York, New York: the City in Art and Literature, myself. Congratulations on what sounds like a most successful trade. :)

(Edited in hopes my touchstones would work.)

I just mooched Sun in Glory, edited by Mercedes Lackey, and tomorrow I'll be sending out The Screwtape Letters and Undead and Unwed.

ETA: and I just received confirmation that another BookMoocher can send me Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice, so I've put in a request for that too. :)

I received my first bookmooch book just this afternoon, I'm so excited!

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

And while updating my profile here on LT, one of the books I've been salivating to read came available. It's come up 2 times now, but both times was requested before I could get it.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris.

I've sent a few books, unfortunately, one seems to have gotten lost. I sent it oct 13 to Brooklyn (in in Western NY) and it still hasn't arrived. It's the first time I tried Media Mail, my other books were the same price to send First Class, so now I'm concerned if Media Mail is worth saving $2.00. It was a rare copy (not valuable, just hard to find) and I'll be very disappointed if it's vanished.

I don't know if either of my mooch angels are LT'ers, beyond asking them, is there any way, if they have different usernames on LT and BookMooch, is there any way to check?

Not unless they posted on the relevant thread here, I think.

Given you have to enter your nickname on BookMooch when you add the info to your LT profile LibraryThing *could* let us search that way. But not yet.

In the meantime, most ppl in this group have changed their username on here or there so they're the same.

A few people also tag their books 'bookmooch me' or 'mooch' so you can find them :)

Also - books mooched recently include:

Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym, courtesy of MaggieO (which I'm currently reading)

Plagues and Peoples by William McNeill

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson - courtesy of AsYouKnow_Bob

A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman and The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, both from Katbook, with an unexpected copy of Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth McIntosh (for which, many thanks!)

and To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis, recommended by others on LT.

I've got on the way:
Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture - this has been on my wishlist forever. I can't wait to read it!

I also just recieved Summer Knight, the fourth Dresden Files book. I'm just finishing the third audio book, so this is getting bumped to the top of my to be read pile.

I've recently mooched Dangerous Angels and Necklace of Kisses, both by Francesca Lia Block, along with Blood of Ten Chiefs, an Elfquest short story anthology.

My most recent mooches are: 1) Trollope the Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings which combine's my love of travel writing with my love of Trollope.
2) Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer. I recently saw the movie Everything is Illuminated and loved it so am expecting good things from the books.
Eurydice- yes I wanted to throw in a little extra because you do so much to keep these forums going and as you are in the spy group and I happened to have 2 copies, I thought The Sisterhood of Spies would be a good choice. (Of course I haven't read it myself yet!). Also the copy of the Ackerman book wasn't in that great of shape compared to a lot of the books I send out.

You're very kind, katbook - and quite right it would interest me! :) I have a terrific just-past-wartime radio show on the OSS, with Veronica Lake as a female spy (who dies in pursuit of duties the country can't acknowledge openly). Alan Ladd (of course) is a male spy who underestimates - and falls in love with - her. They get the job done. It's an interesting thing, being broadcast around 1946, I think. Ironic; and romantic in a rough but exaggerated way. I'm happy to have some more factual underpinnings on women's involvemenent in espionage during the war. :) My library is curious, but shy of much on this issue, so far.

Must check out Foer. He's another on my mental list.

Best wishes to all three of you on your mooches...!

My most recent mooches:

A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion for Patrick O'Brian's Seafaring Tales, by Dean King and others. I've wanted this book since I read Forester's Hornblower series several years ago. I'd gone to the library and asked a reference librarian if there was some sort of seafaring glossary for this period in history, and he checked the computer, disappeared into the stacks, and emerged with this excellent lexicon. I've been checking used bookstores for it ever since, but never found a used copy till I saw it on BookMooch. So now I've got it in case I ever get the energy to make an attempt on the O'Brian series.

And, a book called All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America, something I've often thought about in a vague sort of way. This book is of special interest to me, though, because the author, Glenn C. Altschuler, is someone I remember from college. I didn't know the book existed till I saw it on BookMooch, so I'm pleased to have it!

Here's what came in the mail this week:
1) Daisy Bates in the Desert by Julia Blackburn - non-fiction adventure
2) She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard -fictional adventure
3) Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village by Miss Read -not so much adventure as just being
4) Full house by M. J. Farrell- I'm not sure

It has been a happy few weeks of mooching for me.

This past week, I received:
-Executive Orders by Tom Clancy
-Invasion by Robin Cook

I should receive soon:
-The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2) by Eoin Colfer
-The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson

Week before last I sent out:
-The Lexicon of Labor by R. Emmett Murray
-My Life: The Presidential Years Vol. II by Bill Clinton

And today I sent out:
-Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King
-The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
-Give Me a Break by John Stossel

I added a whole bunch of new books to my inventory since I got home to my parents' house. Check them out on BM (same user name - jaimelesmaths) or in my library with the tag "moochable."

I've mooched and am currently waiting for:

Chobits vols 1-4 (manga)

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card. This one has been delayed since the beginning of August, but I knew it was going to take some time.

Soul Magic by Karen Whiddon which I also mooched at the beginning of August that hasn't shown up yet. I sent an email about it yesterday.

I've mooched and received about 15 other books as well. It has worked out reasonably well so far.

Most of the books on my wish list are popular, and I'm not permanently glued to my e-mail (by any conceivable stretch of the imagination), so I've only been able to nab two books in the past few months -- and relatively obscure books at that! They are J. E. Neale's Queen Elizabeth I and Alan Axelrod's Elizabeth I CEO.

I've just recieved Who on Earth is Tom Baker and a Doctor Who book Eater of Wasps. I've got about twelve books that should come soon!

>115 8664: I shipped ten of them today :)

I've sent out fourteen books over the past week and a bit, but no one's listing anything I'm interested in. Sigh. I did manage to find a copy of Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming by Rachel Hartman, though, so I'm hoping that arrives soon.

117: Took a look at your wishlist, and you have good taste. ;) I'll keep an eye out for ones you want, provided I don't want them more. :D

I've sent out 17 books and am waiting to receive two (The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and Villette by Charlotte Bronte).

my most recent bookmooch book is Dreamers of the Day, which was an ARC and I think it may have been from an LTer but I don't know for sure. I have noticed that ARCs of books that just happened to be Early Reviewers show up on Bookmooch maybe a month or two after they show up on LT. Hmm! :-)