The almond and the apple and the sugar from the maple

[sovay]

Some days you go into a used book store and you do not leave with anything, which is fine.

And some days you go into a used book store and you leave with the first full English translation of Sholem Aleichem's Wandering Stars (1909), a pocket edition of H.D.'s Kora and Ka with Mira-Mare (1934), a new trade paperback of Theodore Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood (1961), and the Complete Plays of Sarah Kane (2001), which you were just discussing on Friday halfway up a mountain with schreibergasse's brother.

The latter is to be preferred.

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[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

That's a haul.

[sovay]

That's a haul.

It got ridiculous. I found a limited edition of something called Oh! A Mystery of Mono no Aware with rice-paper pages and full-color illustrations. I found novelizations of The Piano and The Wicker Man written by the original screenwriters (Jane Campion, Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer). I hadn't even known those existed!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

My budget would not have survived.

[sovay]

My budget would not have survived.

If any of those three are still in the store the next time I am, I'll get them for you.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
(I still have a couple of books for you from a while back, I just fail bitterly at bringing them to Readercon. Clearly, I need to come up and visit.)

[sovay]

Clearly, I need to come up and visit.

I could deal with that.