#blogjune Day 14 - 5 book meme

What am I reading now?
Twitter links mainly, to blogs for June!

The last book I finished?
The City Who Fought - Stirling & McCaffrey

What do I want to read next?
The Mary Smokes Boys (started, not yet finished)

The last book I bought?
Agatha Christie "murder at the vicarage' (paper)
The second ship -book one of the Rho Agenda (e-book)

The last book i was given?
50th anniversary copy of
'To Kill a Mocking Bird'
present from my Mum as she knows I love the book.

The quiz needs a lighter vein so, Musicals!
Song & musical please...

'What they want is what you see,
Keep the best of you,
Do the rest of you...'

Goodnight
@kalgrl
#blogjune

State Library of WA discard book sale in Kalgoorlie

Went to the State Library's book sale "here all weekend" in Kalgoorlie. Opens later on ANZAC Day. [Dawn Service maybe for us.]

The choice does not seem as wonderful as last time, needs thoughtful picking over. Also you need to go over the three days as new 'stock' is put out each day.


The items that caught my fancy are below;

Non Fiction
The Beader's Bible; over 300 great charts for beadweavers - Claire Crouchley
The Brontes at Haworth: a life in letters, Diaries and Writings - Juliet Gardiner
Star wars: The essential Guide to Droids - Daniel Wallace
The Potters Palette - Christine Constant and Steve Ogden
The Wind In the Willows Craft Book - Di Campbell
The techniques of Indian Embroidery - Anne Morrell
Gardner's Art through the ages - 8th ed.
Step-by-Step Dollmaking - Barbara Marsten
Glazes and Glazing Technique - Greg Daly
Creative Photocopying: ...for crafts, design... - Stewart and Sally Walton

Fiction
Astely, Thea 'Coda'
Dick, Phillip K. 'Paycheck'
Eliot, George 'Silas Marner'
Greenwood, Kerry 'Queen of the Flowers'
Hugo, Victor 'The Hunchback of Notre-dame'[Needle, Jan trans. Hughes, David Illus.]
Marston, Edward "The Railway Detective'
McCall Smith, Alexander 'Tears of the Giraffe'
Rankin, Ian 'Watchman'
Robb, JD 'Purity in death'

Short Stories
Astely, Thea 'Collected Stories'
Nebula Awards Showcase - 2003 "the years best SF & Fantasy
The Year's Best - Australian Scinece Fiction and Fantasy - 1997

JB's
Australia's Motocycling Heritage - Jim Scaysbrook
Phillip Island: a history of Motor sport since 1923 - Jim Scraysbrook


Might go back tomorrow, can't keep a reader away from these things.:-)
@kalgrl

Books you remember...15 of them...

Via Ruminations

"Fifteen in Fifteen minutes"

the fifteen that I remember with ease seem to fall into two basic categories,
SciFi and historical.. I was a voracious reader and my neighbour 4 years older than me had an interesting bookcase, as did my Grandfather and my Mother.

A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley (Mary Queen of Scots/war time Britian)
Dune - Frank Herbert (Control, complete control of yourself..)
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffery (Dragons and SciFi mixed)
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes (So tragically sad and well written)
I Robot - Issac Asimov (the robotic laws etc.)
Time enough for love - Robert Heinlein (longevity to the max)
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. banks (my introduction to his work)

These old Shades - Geogette Heyer (Historical novel with witty hero)
A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens (Historical novel with noble tragic hero)
Forever to Remain - E.V. Timms (Historical Novel...family saga exodus to W.A.)
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Huge 'soap opera' in with 2 or more noble heroes)
Katherine - Anya Seton (Historical novel about the mistress of the Duke of Lancaster/ black death, Chaucer etc...its all in it)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Riders - Tim Winton

Most of them are not classic literature and I am not aiming as Flexnib says at a "Highbrow list" just memorable - for me, reads.
Cheers
@kalgrl

Wednesday

Sorting some of the books in the pile beside the bed :o))
Kalgrl

Unread....meme

The106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish and underline the ones read for school.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
A Tale of Two Cities
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
A Canterbury Tale
Tess of the D’urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Well I had read more than I thought, and in a strange way, less.
FeralTB

ANZAC Day & Library Book Sale

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ANZAC day 2008
This morning was quite cold as I walked with my daughter to the Dawn service. There were quite a lot of people attending. We left the house at 5:00am as the service started earlier this year so it would be dawn as it was finishing. It was very moving, We will remember them...

BOOK SALE
I enjoy a second hand book sale and this one in our desert town was no different. The sale is a joint effort by our local public library and the State Library of Western Australia.
In one of the sheds at the local sports arena, there were lots of trestle tables set up by the local public library staff to hold the items.

The phamphlet states:
"30,000 discarded library books on sale; buy a truckload; fiction, other languages, childrens books; priced to clear 50c. Nonfiction priced from $3."
Who could resist a bargin like that. The photo is one I snapped, with my phone, to show the layout. The fiction was towards the back and the pricier items were at the front. (Special nonfiction etc.)
I have to say that this sale happens in our town about once every two years. A large semi-trailer arrives filled with blue mesh crates of items in different genres. The local public library staff set them out in the shed and the towns folk decend!

I must admit to being surprised that it was happening on ANZAC day, not only because it is a public holiday, but because of the wages they would have to pay the staff. (Unless they volunteered..? If they did I hope they got first pick or something.)
I was talking to one of the Librarians from the state library, on facebook, who was weeding (or deselecting) the items, and I told her to throw in some good ones:-)
Though, one womans good book, is anothers dull tome..lol.

The books I picked out for various people in the family and myself are:
Fiction:
"Jingo" Terry Pratchett
"Singer from the Sea" Sheri S. Tepper
"Foundation and Chaos" Greg Bear
Non Fiction:
"My Land of the North" Catherine Cookson (for the Mum-in-Law)
"Cadfael Country" Rob Talbot & Robin Whiteman (always enjoyed Cadfael mysteries! And the descriptions of this area.)
"Needle Lace & Needle Weaving" Jill Nordfors
"Screen Works" Marion Elliot
"Shearing Life in Australia" Ray Sherman (for Dad)
"Spike Milligan: a celebration" Roger Sawyer (for Son)
and
$5.00 of picture books and audio Cassettes for my daughter, which filled a green bag! These included a story on cassette by Anthony Horowitz "Granny" (looked brand new) and an interesting picture book on Leonardo Da Vinci, which she picked out because she likes his work...lol.

Anyway I ran out of cash at this point and they didn't take cards. I think I may have to go back tomorrow or Sunday.

FeralTB-)