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[listersgirl]

I had a lovely time at the Chicklit book swap last night, despite my paranoia about heading into a room full of people I'd never met.  But starfishchick was there (and picked me and my books up, thank you again, hon), and I got to meet idella, which was great.  And everyone was wonderful - I met an archivist who had gone to school with someone who was working here when I started, so we swapped stories for a while about his sexcapades and general entertainment value.  Plus there was good food, Emmy red carpet mockery at the end of the evening, and, oh yeah, books.  Over 600 of them (Deborah counted), some good, and some very, very bad.  Oy.  But I did pick up a few.

Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry
Will Ferguson - Generica
Jasper Fforde - The Well of Lost Plots
Kate Pullinger - Weird Sister
Edward Rutherford - London
Amy Tan - The Joy Luck Club

Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White

Ben Elton - Dead Famous
Sheri S. Tepper - The True Game
P.G. Wodehouse - Cocktail Time, Indiscretions of Archie, and Summer Lightning
Naomi Wolf - Promiscuities

Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Frances Moore Lappe - Diet for a Small Planet
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Regina Barreca - They Used to Call Me Snow White...But I Drifted
Jeanne Braselton - A False Sense of Well Being
Barbara Hambly - Dragonsbane, Dragonshadow, and Knight of the Demon Queen
Jane Hamilton - Disobedience
Sarah A. Hoyt - Ill Met By Moonlight
Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer - The Shadow of the Lion
Sasha Miller - Ladylord
Michele Slung - Slow Hand
Heather Swain - Eliot's Banana
Jeanette Winterson - The Powerbook

Comments

[caffeinediary.livejournal.com]

I'm so jealous. There might be a book meeting for the Philadelphia area-I hope so! I need more books. ok, I don't, but I want more books. That in my mind is the same thing. :P

[listersgirl]

It's never about the need, though, is it?

Although right now I really need another bookcase for all these books.

[idella]

In my professional opinion as an amateur book dealer, you need more books. Get thee to a bookseller! I think you should celebrate your snazzy new job with books, if at all possible.

I hope you have a meeting in your area, but if not, there's always NC. Maybe we should have a very tiny book swap?

[farpotshket.livejournal.com]

Oooh! A Star Called Henry is fantastic! I am such a huge Roddy Doyle fan. And Henry is one of my fave literary crushes. Mmmmm the post office scene.....

The book swap sounds like it would have been really fun. It's too bad I live so far away.

[listersgirl]

I'm very excited about re-reading Henry - I've only read it the once, and I do love Roddy Doyle. Well, except for The Van, which I could never manage to finish, for some reason.

[idella]

It's very bad that you live so far away!

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

My god, that's a great bunch of books you picked up! I hope you review them as you go.

I will always associate Edward Rutherford's London with a very uncomfortable first date. Apparently my inability to appreciate the book was a huge character flaw. :)

[listersgirl]

Bwa! Oh, that's terrible. I mean, I liked the book, but not that much.

[sh1mm3r.livejournal.com]

Ooh, a book swap sounds like fun! I might have to arrange one!

I was cleaning my house yesterday and found a pile of books that I forgot I bought, hooray!

The only books on your list I have read are the Joy Luck Club and Diet for a Small Planet. The Quaker minister that did my wedding (and his wife) practically create their menus from the second book, and it will always make me think of them. That's how I'd like to live if I paid more attention. :)

[listersgirl]

I've heard a number of people say that it was life-changing for them, and while I've never had that from a book, so I doubt I will now, I want to see what it's all about.

[idella]

It was great to meet you, too! The whole thing was much less scary than I thought it would be. I think I was feeling rather brave, so that helped.

I snagged the other copy of Promiscuities.

[listersgirl]

Excellent - we can compare notes. :)

[idella]

I have to read it?

*looks around at stacks of unread books; collapses*

*recovers and adds it to the TBR soon stack*

[listersgirl]

Well, we could just each take a good close look at our disparate covers and fly leaf write-ups and talk about them instead. That might be somewhat more realistic. :)

[idella]

Hell, yeah.

[starfishchick]

Yay, I'm glad it wasn't terribly traumatic for you! I was sorry not to have chatted with you more, but we'll make up for that, I'm sure!

And thank you so much for A Woman of Independent Means - I am reading it now and have been totally sucked in!

[idella]

I'm glad you like it! I see from the pictures that I got some books from your suitcase of DOOM (I can't remember which ones, now).

Yeah, it happened that we were always in different corners. I'm sorry that we didn't talk more, too, but, really, talking to everyone else was scary enough for one afternoon. :P

[starfishchick]

I didn't see this post until just now - you're welcome for the ride! - and dude! You scored HUGE! There was a copy of Tam Lin? Wicked.

[listersgirl]

That was a super secret copy from idella just for me. :) I'm reading it RIGHT NOW. Er, not right this second - I think it's a little too big to hide behind a CD booklet - but on the subway this morning, and probably again at lunch.

[starfishchick]

That's how I got my copy of A Woman of Independent Means - idella is quite the dealer, isn't she?

[listersgirl]

It's all about knowing the right people, baby.