I went back.

I couldn’t help it.

It was only 10 bucks a box.

I am now officially on a book diet.
(AND I carried the bastards across campus, with a backpack full of laptop, camera and iPod and associated leads and bits and bobs. I need seeing to.)
UPDATE: For those who wish to torture themselves a little more, I have put the list of books in the two boxes over the fold.
The Black Swan of Tresspass Humphrey McQueen
My Childhood Gorky
Keywords Raymond Williams
A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms G.A. Wilkes
The Antomist Federico Andahazi
The heart is deceitful above all things J.T. Leroy
The Grisly Wife Rodney Hall
That was then, this is now S.E. Hinton
Thoughtlines Bob Carr
Meredith Siegfried Sassoon
Art and Revolution John Berger
Native Realm Czeslaw Milosz
I am David Anne Holm
Miss Wyoming Douglas Coupland
D.H. Lawrence: Novelist, Prophet and Poet Stephen Spender ed.
Imperium Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Nature of Matter Otto R. Frisch
Granta 41 Biography
The Camera and its Image Arthur Goldsmith
The Devil and James McAuley Cassandra Pybus
Arcady in Australia Coral Lansbury
An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse Jim Haynes ed.
Myself when young Henry Handel Richardson
The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature Kramer and Mitchell eds.
South East Asian Cookbook Charmaine Solomon
The Bill: the first 10 years Hilary Kingsley
Griffith Review 4: Making Perfect Bodies
12 Comments
September 13, 2006 at 8:25 am
I can totally relate. It is so hard to avoid buying books.
Still, how could you turn down such a bargain?
September 13, 2006 at 9:11 am
I’m still bloody reeling with envy, if that’s a thing, from the last list. Why don’t they have these things in Melbourne.
September 13, 2006 at 9:29 am
I also went back on Tuesday and filled a box with goodies. Ten dollars added to the $44 I spent on Saturday broght the total to $54. For that I got 48 books. That’s just over a dollar a volume.
September 13, 2006 at 1:01 pm
Green. I am a bright shade of green.
September 13, 2006 at 2:47 pm
You shocking guts, you. I see you bought a book about “The Bill”, too. It must have been a frenzy.
September 13, 2006 at 9:06 pm
In conclusion, I hate you all.
September 13, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Information overload? Do you believe in this concept?
September 13, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Burp.
Sorry, have just been Librarythinging my new books and feel quite bloated.
CSH: NEVER. You should know I also like books as objects so it\’s not just about reading. Although that figures in it too. Or were you just implying that I have provided the 4 readers of Stack with too much information?
September 13, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Actually, I thought I would expand upon the books-as-objects theme. I don\’t go in for knick-knacks, I don\’t go in for tasteful objects situated around the house at strategic places. What I do go for is a house full of books. That\’s not to say I don\’t read them. I do. I admit to not reading all cover-to-cover but I do dip in and out of them and I do buy speculatively. That is, I buy if I think something might be useful in the future. Kind of like the stock market I guess.
And if I have taught my son one things it\’s to love books and to love stories. I was putting him to bed the other night and he said: \”Was that the doorbell? Well, hello Mr Jackson\”. (See the Tittlemouse post for the relevance of this).
September 14, 2006 at 3:54 pm
very wise filling the house with books. Books can look good dusty, can survive a fall to the floor and don’t shatter into nasty pieces. Much more entertaining than ornaments as well.
September 19, 2006 at 8:13 pm
And they’re GREAT insulation. Since covering the two sides of the wall between our bedroom and the loungeroom with books, we can’t hear the crap kidlet tv on Saturday mornings anymore. Hooray!
I’ve been avoiding this post for fear of book envy but I have high hopes for the Lifeline Book Fair this weekend and have my emotions under control. Gosh, you got a good deal. Could you give us prior notice of the impending sale next time? Worth a trip to Sydney, by the sounds of it.
September 21, 2006 at 9:21 am
NO worries, will post a warning well in advance of next year’s sale. It’s usually advertised on the Sydney Uni events website too.
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