Or, How I Spent My Summer Vacation (and a good amount of money).
Seriously, my vacation turned out to be the LMA Book Buying Tour, 2006. I visited three bookstores a total of five times in the week I was on vacation. And I
did buy books.
1-3)
The Crystal Cave,
The Hollow Hills, and
The Last Enchantment, by Mary Stewart
4)
Cryptozoic, by Brian W. Aldiss
5)
A Mortal Glamour, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
6)
Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock - I read this one years ago out of the library, then could never find it again, at the library or in bookstores, so I grabbed this one the moment I saw it.
7)
The Mormon Murders, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith - I started reading this one, which is nonfiction and about Mark Hoffman, a document forger who ended up being a murderer as well, out of the library but never finished it because it was due before I could finish it.
8)
All The Presidents Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward - A replacement for the copy that I couldn't bring along with me when I moved last year.
The eight books above were bought for a total of less than $20 (my birthday money from my best friend) in a wonderful used bookstore in Anaheim. She knew I was planning on shopping there and specifically instructed me to spend that money there. That bookshop is one of my regular stops whenever I'm in the area. According to their website, they have something like 500,000 volumes in stock; and I believe it.
9)
A Pocket History of the United States, by Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager - Just because I don't have a US history and needed one for some research I'm doing.
10)
The Book of Skulls, by Robert Silverberg - Another book I read out of the library and loved, but could never find again.
11)
The Beatles, by Hunter Davies - A biography of the band, written before they broke up, another replacement for a copy that got lost along the way.
12)
Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell - My third or fourth copy of this book; they kept getting mangled (I've read it a few times
) or lost.
13)
Dracula, by Bram Stoker - Another replacement volume.
14)
Leaving the Saints, by Martha Beck - Autobiography.
15)
The Mummy Congress, by Heather Pringle - Another book I read out of the library and wanted in my own library.
16)
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg - Current affairs; I had read a lot about this book on the internet and it sounded interesting - and it is turning out to be very interesting indeed.
17)
Three Days to Never, by Tim Powers - The new one, which I have been waiting for for at least a couple of years.
