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Stumpage Reports
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Thursday, May 15, 2003 :::
The Last Thing I Need
I'm going to be moving the end of June. As Michael and James know, I have a lot of books and they are very heavy. I've started packing them up and squirreling a couple boxes away in my storage room every week. The last thing in the world I need to be doing is spending money, and even more last than that: spending money on books.
I've been in a weird reading place. As I posted earlier, I read a John Grisham book awhile back and that turned my brain into mush. I've been enjoying Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, I read about 20 pages a day on it. But I'm looking for something with some narrative drive but not some pulp bestseller.
So I stopped by Reader's Corner today. I picked up a 12 volume set of children's books: The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans. It was such a good deal, only $9.95 for the whole set and it will go nicely with my American Heritage Junior Library set.
I also picked up The Collected Jack London. For some reason, I wanted a Jack London quote yesterday, and found this great web site. Last night I dug out To Build A Fire in an anthology I have and read it. Probably most of you have read that, its anthologized up the wazoo and is always assigned in school. I hadn't read it since the seventh grade and was completely lost in the story for 45 minutes last night. I have not been that into a work of fiction for a long time. The book I bought today probably has the ugliest dust jacket of any book in my collection. Also, anyone that writes an alcoholic memoir called John Barleycorn gets my vote.
I also got Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. I've never read it, but I've heard its the best thing on the Spanish Civil War next to For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The last addition to the library was The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I never got around to reading that one, Big Ed will probably disown me for that.
If you're still reading this, thanks for sticking around.
Quote of the Day:
The Facists were firing, our people behind were firing, and I was very concious of being in the middle.
--- George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, 1938.
::: posted by tom at 10:16 PM
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