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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

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[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.