whoops, there goes the last open space on the new bookshelf

[julesjones]

Went into Oxfam to pick up some dried bananas and chocolate, and had a shopping accident in the books section. The Persian Boy, Maurice and The Trials of Rumpole.

I already have a TBR mountain for the month, after failing to resist the hardback of the new Culture novel in Waterstones on Saturday, and this has not helped.

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

I adore The Persian Boy. Best thing she ever wrote.

[julesjones]

I've been meaning to get it for about five years now, and keep putting it off because of the TBR mountain. But there it was, right in front of my nose on the shelf of gently used Penguin Classics...

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

It's been ages since I read The Persian Boy. Well worth it. Hmm. Must find and reread it--as if my own shelf isn't too horrible (darn it, when the department/grocery has a "buy 2 get 1 free sale in mass market paperbacks, one must take advantage! At least for light reading!)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Yes, very true.

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

Shelf space is overrated anyway. :) As long as there is a path from the bed to the bathroom and kitchen, the books can have the rest of the floor. Cuts down on the vacuuming, too!

Seriously though, I just got two new 6 ft high bookshelves for the bedroom and now have some empty spots. Hmm, time to go shopping methinks. :)

[julesjones]

Bad move. And you don't need to go shopping. They'll fill themselves, just you wait and see.

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

Well, my birthday is coming up and I thought I'd reduce my wishlist at Amazon some! Gotta have something to counteract that feeling of getting OLD. :)

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Dangerous place, Oxfam. Even worse is Bristol's Amnesty bookshop, 'cause the books cost peanuts so you come out with even more shiny.

On the other hand, I do feel that charity bookshops perform an important secondary service: reducing poverty and feelings of guilt amongst book addicts ;)

[julesjones]

And reducing feelings if guilt in *two* ways -- if one has to weed the books, because for example one is being threatened with divorce if there are more books than bookcases to put them in, one can give the weeded to charity shops, secure in the knowledge that they will be re-homed.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

There's a new Iain M Banks novel out? Ooh. Wonder how long it'll take for that to get to Australia?

[julesjones]

Officially, it's not out here yet. :-) It's not published until 7 Feb, but of course a whole load of bookshops are releasing stock early.

UK books are now often printed locally to Australia, so they show up at the same time or soon after the UK release. Booktopia's listing it as published Feb, but whether that means they'll have it then, or just that they can order it then, I'm not sure. The price is pretty eye-watering, though -- the hardback's $50.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Yes, hardbacks do tend to be eye-watering in price. Trade paperbacks, which have grown to be more common than hardbacks of late down here, can be almost as eye-watering :-(