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It is dang COLD out there by California standards-perfect for staying in with a mug of that Fair Trade organic hot cocoa (Trader Joe’s) & reading ’til my eyes go blurry.
Years ago I thought Half.com was a pretty cool site, one could buy or sell mostly books or music Ebay style, but with the bonus of no expiration to the listings. Now Half is bought by Ebay and the action is kinda dead-but a new site for Bibliophiles has come up:
http://bookmooch.com/about/overview
FYI for those who heard our best man Allen’s show stopping wedding speech: ‘Bibliophile’ was the word he helped P look up so as to respond suavely to one of my earliest e-mails. I hear he later also assisted in shopping for gifts as well as the accoutrements of plotting the proposal plan. What a guy! (Why some savvy Christian woman has not yet snatched up Al for herself is a great mystery/loss…but the fact that my MOST well-rounded, awesome friends all seem to be the single ones is fodder for a different blog).
Back to books. So this is a great site for folks like me who have oh, maybe 7 or more bookshelves all exploding with books, yet who continue to come home with more ‘must have’ books surreptitiously stashed in all my bags.(Truth comes out, hon).
My Rav4 is practically a mobile library most days. Let’s take last Friday as an example: in my car there was one book on China (where I hope to go next year), one by Theroux on his 30 yr. friendship with V.S. Naipul, there is the Best travel writing of 2006, How to write a Book Proposal, an illustrated guide to the philospher Rosseau, and also How to help your Teenager with an Eating Disorder. I guess I Thomas Guide is also a sort of book for those lackign GPS. In my purse was Pen on Fire: http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/
Also a book in the trunk on how to deal with a Picky Eater (for my sister in law to deal with our neice A), this book nestled next to 3 bags of Calbee snap pea snacks which A actually enjoys eating and refers to as "Auntie Helen food". Which cracks me up. Sounds like how one refers to "Cat Food’ or ‘Bird food".
At my agency, we’ve cultivated a crew of about 5 voracious readers and their respective partners. It’s been such a pleasure to share the tomes I love, and to hear others tell me that they cried, laughed, felt I’d changed their lives with a carefully selected volume.
But STILL I can’t keep pace with the influx.
However, I love many of these books far too much to fling them to the mercies of Goodwill or even the public library. I want them to be circulated and cherished by those endangered like minded geeks that must be lurking out there. So book mooch it is. See ya there.
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