Books leaving your home today

What are they?

Where are they going?

How are they getting there?

Brigids Charge, The Fallen,The Expected One,The Color of Light, The Ice Queen, Cloud Chamber, The Night Journal, and Cradle and All are leaving today.

I have got to purge !!!

Most have spent some time on Mooch and gone nowhere. I have an appointment today and the receptionist and staff are readers... so I am taking them along to give away.

I have more books coming.. 10-12 or so I think.

Pride and Prejudice (seeing the BBC production last weekend reminded me how much I enjoyed the story and I am rereading it)

to work (and back again)

by bus (where they will provide some much needed escapism)

Night by Elie Wiesel, to a fellow LTer who wanted to read it. By mail.

7 Ranger's Apprentice books plus 8 Pendragon by D.J. Machalebooks.

To my school's media center.

I'm donating them.

Recently, the following books have left my home:

Magic Lessons
Magic or Madness
Magic's Child
Princess Ben
The memory keeper's daughter

I returned them all to B&N, the first four because I finished reading them and realized that it was a mistake to buy them because I don't intend to read them ever again (rereading is my criteria for buying books) and the last because I don't know what possessed me to buy it in the first place.

#6 - I paid $1 for my copy of Memory Keeper's Daughter and I have to read it this month for one of my RL book clubs. I haven't started it yet, but some of the other club members are already giving me the 'thumbs down' signal.

Pillars of the Earth is going everywhere with me these days.

I managed to mooch my copy of H.M.S. Ulysses recently. My first mooch so far. Odds are it will be the only one.

Yesterday I got an invitation to participate in a 'send one person a book - receive up to 36 books from others'.
First I thought YES, I'll send one of my to be purged books... but then I thought, well, I will get 36 paperbacks in return, probably books I don't want to read (swedish best seller list - yuk).
Still undecided.

In another manner The hobbit left my home today, travelling in my bag.

Bottoms Up! Jokes from Bikini Bottom (Spongebob Squarepants) is going to a moocher in Florida.

The Adventures Huckleberry Finn is going to a moocher in Minnesota.

7 clam

I admit I never even cracked it open. I think when I picked it up at the bookstore, I was confusing it with something else, and so it just sat on the shelf since I got it. Waste of money, waste of space.

Nobody jump on me for saying this, but it is slightly tempting to start using the bookstore like a library and buy and return books (the library here stinks, and is a pain to get to besides, and I've considered bookmooch etc but there are no nearby post offices. no, I'm serious, there really aren't.). I imagine they'd probably stop letting me do it eventually and that's a bad idea for SO many reasons, so this is something I am NOT going to start doing. But the temptation is there...

I need to bring Rebel Hart by Edith Morris Hemingway back to the library today.

(Excuse edits -- still learning how to use touchstones)

>7 clamairy: Clam,

I had the hardest time with Memory Keeper's Daughter. I put it down, picked it up, ignored it, tried it again out of pity and then gave it up for good. I just didn't care about any of the characters.

"Pillars of the Earth is going everywhere with me these days."
Thanks clam... you just helped me to choose my next read!

Added Possessing The Secret of Joy by Alice Walker to the pile of books to go to a good home.

and BlueSalamander..

you read all of those books then returned them?

#10: You live near a B&N but not a post office? Sounds like a sign of the times. :)

13 mckait

I read four of them. I never opened the fifth.

Buying them was a mistake. I was going to get rid of them one way or another, and they were all still in perfect condition. So yes, I returned them.

Edit: I might add that I exchanged them for store credit, not for cash back, so the money is going back into the store anyway.

14 Medellia

Well, I don't live near B&N either, but the post office is even farther away and not near anything else I would be going to.

Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce came out with me today, tucked safely away in my bag. It'll follow me around from work to the movies to home. I've also got Saving the Word: A Guide to Heroes on me, as I expect to finish the novel today and I didn't want to be without a book.

I have a bunch of books tagged "give away" that are going to the used book store next time I get down to Mandeville. I'm trying to get rid of books I know I'm not going to re-read.

bluesalamanders... I was not judging.. just reacting.. it has never crossed my mind to return a book to a store. I was just surprised at the idea.. and at the thought that they would take them back! who knew?

If I dislike a book, I tend to assume it came my way for a reason, and soon I find someone who would like to read it.. and off it goes.. set free! Same for those times I end up with ( oops!) a second copy of a book. But thats me..

I have a Post Office about 2 blocks away, right across from the dragon ladies library...and a B&N about 12 minutes away... I am fortunate indeed!

#6, 7 & 10 - I had about three people tell me that I had to read The Memory Keeper's Daughter, all on the same day but I knew right away that I didn't want to and wouldn't like it at all.

Since then a lot of people on here have said that they regret buying it so I am really glad that I trusted my instincts not to bother with it. It is showing up with increasing frequency on the secondhand shelves and charity shops I frequent and I picked it up one day on the off-chance that it might not be so bad after all. Someone had written the words "Utter Sh*t" on the inside cover, so I put it back (and left the store smiling).

19 mckait

The reason I have returned so many books within so short a time is because it never occurred to me either :) I saw someone else doing it when I was waiting to check out one day and thought...whoa! I could do that!

I don't believe in fate, so "came my way for a reason" doesn't work for me, though.

Not fate.. just the universe/diety etc putting things in my path so that I can put them in someone else's. But that is a "me" thing. :D

The Bridal Wreath
The Mistress of Husaby
Kristin Lavransdatter: III The Cross all by Sigrid Undsett

A friend loaned them to my daughter. I'm hesitating about giving them back because I think clamairy said she liked this author, but I have so many books of my own to get through, I don't want to make the commitment to these right now, so back they go to my friend.

# 8-Busifer- assume you are reading The Hobbit as i am & i'm reading it from 3 different version all @ the same time-#1-got the Annotated Hobbit from the labrary as it is one of the few Tolkien related books i do not yet own. I'm reading all of the annotations as i go along.
#2-The illustrated version by David Wenzel.
#3-The regular paperback version which i've read at least 3x before.
I take the PB w/me whenever i go anywhere but leave the others home to read at bedtime.
Am amazed @the stuff i had totally forgotten in the story & greatly enjoying the experience. 8^)

I'm carrying around The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb and Tone Sandhi: Patterns across Chinese dialects by Matthew Chen. They came with me on the bus and will be going back the same way. I will hopefully have read through more of the latter by then.

the Dumas club came home with me, as a friend and wandered past a second hand bookshop at lunch and it jumped off the shelves and followed me home.

Today my son's copy of Lonely Planet Spain will be off to Maine via a BookMooch request.

Saving the World: A Guide to Heroes came out again this morning, and will follow me around all day. 101 Bears to Make and Flora Segunda made their way from my house to the library return bin, from which they'll travel to other appreciative readers.

The Blind Assassin, B is for Burglar and The Nanny Diaries came to work with me today in my brand new Arkansas Razorbacks tote bag, purchased from a flea market while on vacation (it's SO gaudy, I love it) so I will have an assortment to choose from when I finish Neverwhere this afternoon.

I can't return books. Someone suggested I donate some of my older ones, and I freaked. It's a serious problem. But they're MINE. They're BOOKS.

It can be very freeing ellevee. I gave those books a new home.. they will be read by several people.. and make them all happy.. ( yay! a free read!)
And now when the books that are oout for delivery from B&N arrive today, I might have enough shelf space for them. Although.. when my mooches show up I am in trouble again.

I only give away books if I know that I will never read them again.. or if I think someone will enjoy them more than I did. I have three boxes for the humane society sale..

I also have a few more to put up on mooch... when i take the time.

But I do understand the they are MINE thing.. I do..

I just gave away many of my books. Some went to a new Lang Arts/Lit teacher who needed books for her classroom. Others went to a used book store and I have a few posted on half.com.

I did keep my favorites and ones that my sons wanted. It was difficult at first, but, as mckait said, it is very freeing. I'll definitely do this again!

I'm with ellevee: my books are just that - mine. I'm incredibly possessive of them and no one else can have them!

In the Gloaming is coming to the mall with me where I need to buy parsley, and visit a JP (justice of the peace) at the library - need to get some stuff signed for husband's immigration thingamijiggies. Will avoid all bookstores.

I am with you guys when it comes to book possessiveness. I actually got stuck writing my will when it came to my book collection. All those books that 'belong together', and who would appreciate what the most.. Gah.

#24 - I will be honest. I haven't read The Hobbit since I was a teen. The swedish translation occured to me as bland, back then. At the same time I read whole of LoTR a couple of times a week, a year or so in a row. I still reread it every 3rd year or so. The other books, though... no.
Now I decided to give The Hobbit a 2nd chance, and my way of doing so is comparing the UK original with the swedish translation I grew up with, to be able of judge if it indeed is the swedish edition was at fault or if the original is bland as well.
So far I can tell the translation lacks the poetic dimension of the original.

nothing left today... three came in.. anyone want a book about ghosts?

Well, I listed nine of mine on eBay today. They are some collectible ones I inherited several years ago. Whether they will sell or not is another question. I'm very excited that one has a bid on it though! It was the cheapest one. :)

Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont

Songs for the Missing: A Novel by Stewart O'Nan

Don't Call Them Ghosts: The Spirit Children of Fontaine Manse-
A True Story by Kathleen McConnell

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

poof! went to new homes...

Dullsville ...

Flora Zambesiaca vol. 3 goes back to my office tomorrow in my briefcase. It lives there.

Godslayer came out with me to my counselling appointment (me is basket-case, yanno)....and four more books came home with it...

The last templar is being returned to it's owner

the complete works of Jane Austen a gift for a work collegue

and I have now moved on to Sense and Sensibilty, which travelled to and from work by public transport to keep me company.

Severn, I have been avoiding series books for a few years..

Too darn hard to gather them all up.. expensive too..

Nothing leaving here today, unless I get off my sorry backside and list a few more on mooch. I have some that have languished there for months... Others go as soon as I put them up!

I am a mooch newbie.. still learning the ropes...

Sending out Run by Ann Patchett for BookMooch.