You were going to be my life

[sovay]

For the hell of it, since I had to pack them all anyway, I decided to catalogue the books I had acquired while living with rushthatspeaks and gaudior, i.e., between the first of October and today. Alphabetized because I had to pack them out of order of acquisition, editions not specified in most cases because it's too much work right now. Contributor's copies linked because even writers who are moving house should support their editors and fellow writers. Obviously this says nothing about library books or books otherwise borrowed, but I never keep track of this sort of thing and I was curious. Some of these I have written about, most I haven't. Shout out if you want to know anything. A hundred and twelve books is only slightly more than a hundred and ten.

Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (2014)

Mike Allen (ed.), Clockwork Phoenix 5 (2016)

Mike and Anita Allen (eds.), Mythic Delirium: Volume Two (2015)

M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015)

S. An-sky, The Dybbuk and Other Writings (trans. Golda Werman and David Roskies, 2002)

Robert Arthur (ed.), Davy Jones' Haunted Locker: Great Ghost Stories of the Sea for Young People (1965)

Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters (2013)

Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time (2016)

Helen Berry, The Castrato and His Wife (2012)

Lawrence Block, Grifter's Game (1961)

Anya von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing (2013)

Mikhail Bulgakov, A Dog's Heart (trans. Hugh Aplin, 2005)

Katharine Butterworth and Sara K. Schneider (eds.), Rebetika: Songs from the Old Greek Underworld (1975)

W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age (2013)

Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, Women and Monarchy in Macedonia (2000)

Matthew Cheney, Blood: Stories (2016)

Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown (2015)

Michael Cisco, Animal Money (2015)

Max Allen Collins, Seduction of the Innocent (2013)

Anton Corbijn, In Control (2008)

Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison's Watching (1989)

Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe: A Verse Novel of Londinium, 211 A.D. (2001)

Patrick Leigh Fermor, Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete (2015)

Gemma Files, Experimental Film (2015)

Liana Finck, A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York (2014)

Danny Fingeroth, Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Jewish Superhero (2008)

Noralee Frankel, Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee (2010)

Robert Frump, Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard History (2008)

Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)

Suzanne Gargiulo, Hans Conried: A Biography (2002)

Hugh Garner, Waste No Tears (1950)

Jaym Gates (ed.), Genius Loci: Tales of the Spirit of the Place (2016)

Paul Goldberg, The Yid (2016)

David Goodis, The Wounded and the Slain (2007)

Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter (1953)

Alec Guinness, Blessings in Disguise (1985)

Michael Haas, Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis (2013)

Barbara Hambly, Graveyard Dust (1999)

Barbara Hambly, Die Upon a Kiss (2001)

Barbara Hambly, Wet Grave (2002)

Donald Hamilton, Night Walker (1954)

Johan Harstad, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? (trans. Deborah Dawkin, 2011)

Vivian Heller, The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subways (2004)

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, The Innocent Mrs. Duff (1946)

Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, The Blank Wall (1947)

Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man (1963)

Hammond Innes, The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)

Lynne Jamneck (ed.), Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2016)

Michael M. Jones (ed.), Scheherazade's Façade: Fantastical Tales of Gender-Bending, Cross-Dressing, and Transformation (2012)

Caitlín R. Kiernan, A Is for Alien (DIP edition, 2015)

Caitlín R. Kiernan, Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1–5 (2015)

Caitlín R. Kiernan, Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume Two (2016)

Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1994)

T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride (2015)

Aaron Lansky, Outwitting History (2004)

Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (2015)

Tanith Lee, Dancing Through the Fire: A Collection of Stories in Five Moves (2015)

Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (2016)

Rose Lemberg (ed.), An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables (2016)

Rose Lemberg (ed.), Spelling the Hours: Poetry Celebrating the Forgotten Others of Science and Technology (2016)

Rose Lemberg, Marginalia to Stone Bird (2016)

Jenn Louis, Pasta by Hand: A Collection of Italy's Regional Hand-Shaped Pasta (2015)

Mark Ludwig, Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets (2015)

Glenn Markoe, Phoenicians (2002)

Michael Matheson (ed.), The Humanity of Monsters (2015)

Ed McBain, Cut Me In (1954)

Ed McBain, The Gutter and the Grave (1958)

Winsor McCay, Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (Dover reprint, 1973)

Boyd McDonald's Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV (1985)

Patricia A. McKillip, Dreams of Distant Shores (2016)

Patricia A. McKillip, Kingfisher (2016)

Richard Michelson, More Money Than God (2015)

Margot Mifflin, The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (2009)

Kaoru Mori, A Bride's Story: Volume 3 (2012)

Kaoru Mori, A Bride's Story: Volume 4 (2013)

Kaoru Mori, A Bride's Story: Volume 7 (2015)

Norman Nawrocki, Cazzarola! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy (A Novel) (2013)

Frederick Nebel, Raw Law: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Volume 1, 1928–30 (2013)

Frederick Nebel, Shake-Down: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Volume 2, 1930–33 (2013)

Frederick Nebel, Too Young to Die: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Volume 3, 1933–35 (2014)

Frederick Nebel, Winter Kill: The Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy Volume 4, 1935–36 (2014)

Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here (2015)

Alice Notley, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls (2011)

K.J. Parker, Downfall of the Gods (2016)

Christopher Plummer, In Spite of Myself (2008)

Dennis Potter, Pennies from Heaven (1981)

Helen Scales, Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (2015)

Jack Schaefer, Shane (1949)

Anya Seton, Foxfire (1950)

Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell, Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (2015)

Robert Emmet Sherwood, The Petrified Forest (1935)

George C. Solley and Eric Steinbaugh (eds.), Moods of the Sea: Masterworks of Sea Poetry (1981)

Mary Stewart, The Last Enchantment (1979)

Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, The Dead Mountaineer's Inn (trans. Josh Billings, 2015)

Theodore Sturgeon, The Rare Breed (1966)

Simon Sylvester, The Visitors (2014)

Valerie Taylor, Stranger on Lesbos (1960)

Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past (2015)

Ernest Tidyman, Shaft (1971)

Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman, The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue (2009)

Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp, Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told (2010)

Mark A. Vieira, George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925–1992 (2013)

Ursula Vernon, Castle Hangnail (2014)

Sarah Weinman (ed.), Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s (2015)

Sarah Weinman (ed.), Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (2015)

Donald E. Westlake, Somebody Owes Me Money (1969)

Raoul Whitfield, West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Gar (2013)

Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, The Theatrical World of Angus McBean (2009)

Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Promise (2012)

Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Search (2013)

Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, Avatar: The Last Airbender—The Rift (2014)

I am deeply depressed by the quantity of clothes I seem to own, though. It's a lot less convenient than I thought.

Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

A hundredweight of books is a very respectable haul!

What did you think of A Bintele Brief?

[sovay]

A hundredweight of books is a very respectable haul!

Thank you!

What did you think of A Bintele Brief?

I really liked it, although I was left wanting to read more of the original, unillustrated letters and then never followed that impulse up.