08.Feb.2010 Mailbox Monday – 3 Months Acquisition
You can relax, because I didn’t acquire that many books in 3 months :)
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer, Selected by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith, and Sarah Wood — from Basement Books for $9.95. Isn’t the cover the cutest?! I first saw it at Paperback Reader, and Claire later reminded me again about it, so I was so happy to see it with slashed price!
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa – from Basement Books for $4.95! Another amazing finding! I can’t believe they sold the new ones for $4.95 ea when the RRP in Australia is about $25.
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel — mooched from bookmooch.com. This book is not available at my libraries, so I’m so happy to be able to mooch it!
I got the next 3 books from last year! I feel bad that I have not acknowledged them!
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick — won from Dewey’s 24 hour read-a-thon. No, not the October one. The April one! Kathrin had been very nice to send it all the way from Germany. But it was sea-mail, so it took about 4 months to arrive to Australia. It was an interesting wait :)
Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize by Kathy by Jo Wargin and Zachary Pullen – won from Dawn @ 5 Minutes for Books, it is a hardcover large picture book. It would be nice to learn about Alfred Nobel from a picture book!
I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume — bought from bookdepository.co.uk, which I have started reading for tanabata’s read-along, but it lays dormant after the first part (out of three).
Apart from these, I went to Sydney Japanese Foundation last Tuesday to find that they withdrew some book from the library and gave them away for free! I weeded through the pile pretty quickly and went back to the office with 2 bags of books. Oops! A lot of them I had never heard before and many are short stories collection. But who knows, I might be able to find some gems. I left the books at the office and will only bring them back home slowly, so more details will be on my next Mailbox Monday post (whenever that is).
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