Book Hauls!

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From Abebooks today, book number 30 of the 87th Precinct books.
This was made into a film starring Donald Sunderland as Carella... I can't see him as Carella...but I would like to see it
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The ad indicated that I book I was purchasing was Galaxy novel No. 34 from 1954, not this Baen Book from thirty years in the future with typically lackluster cover of the period. I got what I paid for just not exactly.
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I recently participated in a "book crawl" during the weekend of national indie bookstore day to support my local independent bookstores and I got quite the haul of books and other treasures.
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My book haul included Starling House, A Stoke of the Pen: The Lost Stories, Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore, and Lore of the Witch World for fiction and Safe and Sound, The Faerie Handbook, Magical Folk: The History of Fairies, One Way to Write Your Novel, and The Art of Fiction for nonfiction. Some of the rest of my haul includes tote bags, earrings, stickers, magnets, candles, dice, and a special prize for every three-ish stores I spent at least $20 at. It was like Christmas came early! (But I'm not going to think about how much money I spent that day...)
 
I went to get one book but then I saw this one while I was in the bookshop. I haven't got to read it yet but the cover alone made me want to buy because it looked so good. No doubt it won't fit in my bookcases though because I got it as a huge hard back.
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I'm coming to a close on the audiobook of Absolution Gap and have bought the remainder of the Revelation Space books (not including the Prefect Dreyfuss books). The short story collection of Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days along with the collected short stories in Galactic North. These covers aren't as nice as the original covers in my opinion.

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I also got Inhibitor Phase, which has a great cover.

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All are narrated by John Lee. I'll probably go to Galactic North first as the short story format will be a good pallet cleanser.
 
I got mugged by eBay yesterday. I had been swithering about buying a bound volume of Spirou comics (no. 161) from a UK seller for a couple of days - actually that's a fib. I knew I was going to buy it but I was trying to find the form of words to say to the wife - I was literally (sic that's literally literally not metaphorically literally or even wildly debasing the word by not actually even thinking about doing it type literally) I was literally just about to hit the Buy it Now button when a 40% off the price I was about to pay offer arrived from the seller. (It wasn't aimed at me I think everyone else who had looked at the item got it too. I keep getting them for things I vaguely remember having seen weeks before) Swithering be damned! Mine now!
 
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