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Ohhhh, yeah…
7 Feb 07
The every day project resurrects itself. Inspired by something Jodi told me about somebody she “knows” who is trying to get rid of half of everything they own, and remembering my own musings about getting rid of some books, I decided to tackle the fiction shelves with the intention of getting rid of half of what’s there. The list of stuff to go is below, but for some reason I feel I should check with somebody first.
For now, these are just piled up under the piano. If anybody wants any of these, just let me know. Or if you think you know somebody who might want some, feel free to send them here. I won’t vouch for the condition, but they range from crappy yellowed paperbacks to relatively decent hardcovers, one of which is even signed by the author. Some are covered in scribbles having been bought for my undergrad; others, having been bought for my undergrad, have never been opened.
- Canadian short stories: fourth series
- Scholes and Sullivan, Elements of fiction
- Ashley and Moseley, Elizabethan fiction
- 50 great short stories
- Holman, A handbook to literature
- Great Canadian short stories
- Modern Canadian stories
- Short novels of the masters
- Short story masterpieces
- Douglas Adams, Mostly harmless
- —So long, and thanks for all the fish
- Richard Adams, Shardik
- —Watership Down
- Margaret Atwood, Cat’s eye
- Jane Austen, Pride and prejudice
- —Sense and sensibility
- Simone de Beauvoir, The mandarins
- Albert Camus, L’etranger
- Joseph Conrad, 6 novels in one!
- Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a coma
- Robertson Davies, The cunning man
- —Fifth business
- —The lyre of Orpheus
- —The manticore
- —A mixture of frailties
- —What’s bred in the bone
- —World of wonders
- Defoe, Moll Flanders
- Dickens, An xmas carol
- —David Copperfield
- —Hard times
- Eliot, Middlemarch
- —The mill on the floss
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, She
- Timothy Findley, The butterfly plague
- —Dinner along the Amazon
- —Famous last words
- —Headhunter
- —The last of the crazy people
- —Not wanted on the voyage
- —The telling of lies
- —Spadework
- —The wars
- Fitzgerald, The great Gatsby
- Forster, A passage to India
- William Golding, Lord of the flies
- Goldsmith, The vicar of Wakefield
- Gunter Grass, The tin drum
- Hardy, Far from the madding crowd
- —The return of the native
- —Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- —The woodlanders
- Hermann Hesse, Demian
- John Irving, The cider house rules
- —The Hotel New Hampshire
- James, The portrait of a lady
- Joyce, Dubliners
- —A portrait of the artist as a young man
- Arthur Koestler, Darkness at noon
- Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The leopard
- C. S. Lewis, The Narnia chronicles
- Somerset Maugham, Cakes and ale
- —Then and now
- Great short works of Herman Melville
- Walter M. Miller, A canticle for Liebowitz
- Farley Mowat, The dog who wouldn’t be
- Vladimir Nabokov, Bend sinister
- Michael Ondaatje, In the skin of a lion
- George Orwell, 1984
- Nino Ricci, In a glass house
- —Lives of the saints
- David Adams Richards, Mercy among the children
- Mordecai Richler, Jacob Two-Two’s first spy case
- Gabrielle Roy, The tin flute
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s children
- Saltykov, The Golovlevs
- Kate Taylor, Mme Proust and the kosher kitchen
- The new Tolkien companion
- Tolkien, Unfinished tales
- —The fellowship of the ring
- —The two towers
- —The return of the king
- —The silmarillion
- Tolstoy, Master and man
- Anthony Trollope, The way we live now
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead revisited
- H. G. Wells, The first men in the moon
- T. H. White, The book of Merlyn
- —The once and future king
- Elie Wiesel, Night
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
- —Orlando
- —To the lighthouse
- —The waves
- Emile Zola, The masterpiece
Well, in the end, that’s only about a third. Odds are I won’t touch 95% of what’s being kept until ten years from now when it’s time to purge again.
Posted by pzed on February 7, 2007 at 10.28pm
Categories: every day
Comments on "Ohhhh, yeah…"
Some of those books are actually mine. Numbers 2, 20, probably one or two of numbers 21 through 27, likewise one or two of numbers 35 through 43, numbers 67, 68, and possibly also 85. That said, I trust your judgement and can live without these, although Not Wanted on the Voyage is among those books that I sometimes take down and read again. But I can take it out of the library if I ever need it again.
Here’s my opinion, for what it’s worth given that I am the one temporarily living away from home while you must deal with our mountain of stuff on your own: the handful of authors I mentioned last time you wrote on this topic must stay, at least for now. In addition I’d really like to continue collecting the New Canadian Library. Non fiction books, of course, we should go through together. But for everything else, even if it belongs to me, go ahead and give it away.
Posted by jodi on February 8, 2007 at 12.32am :: link
Well, If you’re really getting rid of them, but could stand to hold on to a few for a bit longer, I’d happily take the Robertson Davies (haven’t read any, been told I should) and the Narnia series (don’t have my own copy yet). Maybe a Findlay or two, or something else even, if you’d reccommend them. Of course, I’m a terrible book-hoarder, so this could be dangerous…
Posted by Emer on February 8, 2007 at 10.29am :: link
[...] Well, not so long ago it was mostly empty. Today, it is more than mostly full, and four and a half boxes that were cluttering up Claire’s bedroom are now neatly nested and tucked away in the basement. A careful observer will notice that a lot of these books are rather old. Some belonged to my grandparents, some belonged to Jodi’s grandparents, a few belonged to my dad, and some were mine and/or Jodi’s all along. [...]
Posted by words » Blog Archive » what could possibly be interesting about this bookshelf. . . on March 28, 2007 at 8.33pm :: link
