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<\/a><\/p>\nI got:<\/p>\n
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- Three books in the Reader’s Digest classics series, Around the World in 80 Days<\/em>, Lost Horizon<\/em>, and The Sea Wolf<\/em>. I’m pretty sure I’ve read two of them before, but now I have them in the editions I collect. Well, one of the editions.<\/li>\n
- Two other classics, Gulliver’s Travels<\/em> and Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- An Ozark Lawyer’s Story<\/em> by John Hulston; I read the first part of his autobiography last year<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Up in the Air<\/em>, the novel that was the source of the Clooney film.<\/li>\n
- A book of critical essays on Rudyard Kipling.<\/li>\n
- A collection of love poems and a collection of limericks.<\/li>\n
- A book about Lord Tennyson’s poetry and philosophy. Six lectures from 1906.<\/li>\n
- F15E Strike Eagle<\/em> by Microprose software. It’s a book about the plane, not the game.<\/li>\n
- Two fantasy bits, R.A. Salvatore’s Mortalis<\/em> and the novelization of the film Dragonslayer<\/em>. I think I have a mass market paperback graphic novel of the latter, too.<\/li>\n
- A couple of localish, self-publishedesque collections of poems and short stories, Dunking Doughnuts<\/em> and Never Get Mad At Your Sweetgrass<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- Mark Twain Speaks for Himself<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- Leif and Thorkel: Two Norse Boys of Long Ago<\/em>, which looks to be a 1924 children’s novel.<\/li>\n
- Historical Tweets<\/em>, a humorous browsing book capturing how historical figures might have tweeted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
An interesting sm\u00f6rg\u00e5sbord, as Leif and Thorkel might say if they were Swedish boys of long ago instead of ancestors of a-ha fans.<\/p>\n
I feel a little justified at only buying 20 books for myself (one of those depicted is a gift) as I’ve read more than 20 books this year. Of course, I’ve bought more books than I’ve read this year, but I’ll never go without having a variety of choices when selecting a new book to read. If only I could capture the interest and excitement I get when buying the book when I go to select the books; sometimes, that excitement and interest fades after time, so I’m not going to be as eager to delve into a tale of old Norway in March 2015 as I am today, but I’ve already got other things to read. Alas. Ay, me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Two other classics, Gulliver’s Travels<\/em> and Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence<\/em>.<\/li>\n