light reading book swap? updated!

peanut · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 82 Location: i'm a chi girl

Hi,
I have a few books to trade (mostly from trades), hoping someone would want to trade a few paperbacks for others. I'll list them below, hopefully anybody else would also post books they'd like to swap. I'm also posting these for sale on Amazon (I need to clean up the clutter in my apartment before school starts again), so act fast if you want any of these. I'm going to keep adding books to the list, so keep checking back.

Novels:
CLAIMED! Girls Guide to hunting and Fishing--Melissa Bank
CLAIMED! Garden State--Rick Moody
The Radiant Way--Margaret Drabble
Christ Recrucified--Nikos Kazantzakis

Poems:

New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith
Circles on the Water: Selected Poems of Marge Piercy

History:
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Vol. 1--Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser

Cookbooks:
Secrets of Fat-Free Baking--Sandra Woodruff

Other:
Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child.--Alice Miller
Deal With It: A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Girl--from the creators of Gurl.com

smachel · Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 305 Location: kentucky

if you're still having trouble getting rid of these, try going to a book rack or other used book store. you can get credit for the books you hand over to them which you use on purchases there. i think we tend to forget about this cool resource.

peanut · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 82 Location: i'm a chi girl

I'm actually a big fan of this technique--I used to live in Portland, home of Powells, largest used bookstore in the US. I just thought I'd offer up some books for you all to check out before I go and sell them.

:)
peanut

atomic · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: los angeles

Love this idea; here's my list:

(Fiction)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Island of the Day Before by Umberto Eco

After the Quake by Haruki Murakami

Parable of the Talents and Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

(Nonfiction)

Private Myths by Anthony Stevens

The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman

Turning Life into Fiction by Robin Hemly

Peanut, let me know if you'd like to trade for any of these.

Also, I've got a metric crapload of science fiction; if any of you are interested, pm me & I'll send you a list.

alterego · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 60 Location: New Haven, CT

Great idea! Unfortunately I rarely buy books and tend to horde those that do end up in my possession. But I just finished Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (nonfiction), which I'll trade if anyone's interested. And I may have a paperback copy of The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler (fiction)--I actually misplaced this about 20 pages from the end and had to check a copy out of the library to finish it, but I'm convinced it's under my boyfriend's bed, so I'll try to find it tonight. It features a very cute picture of Elliot Gould (who starred in the movie) on the cover with a cat on his shoulder and holding a bag of cat food, despite the fact that there is not a single mention of a cat anywhere in the book. Intriguing, no? Sadly, the cover on the replacement copy from the library is boring and solid black.

I'll dig around my house and see if I can find anything else to put up for trade as well.

atomic · Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 74 Location: los angeles

Yeah, I usually "hoard" books as well & have a hard time parting with them. I'm awfully proud of the fact that my six-level bookshelf is overfilled & sagging with the weight :) But I'm broke as hell right now, and dying for new reading material!

brightcorner · Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 65 Location: SF bay area

If you have a bunch of books to get rid of & don't need the money, one thing I'm into doing is "releasing them in the wild" - there's a website, bookcrossing.com, where you register your books, get a numbers for each and start a running journal about it, then stick a note on each book (with its number) and leave it somewhere for someone else to find...hopefully this person will then go to the website, add to the journal, and pass the book on again once they've read it. I love the idea of creating a network of random people connected by a single book (like those guys who send out the disposable cameras, but more word-y!)

Of course, it does seem to work better in theory than in practice. But a few of my books have actually acquired quite long & serendipitous journals, which is fun. Somehow my copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay has ended up in Romania, for one thing.

I'm afraid I usually get rid of the books I can bear to part with this way, so i don't have any to trade right now. Although I'm in the middle of Reading Lolita in Tehran right now, if you're interested in that.

Karla · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:46 am Post subject:

brightcorner, thanks so much for the bookcrossing info. What a great idea! I just joined....now, to find a book I can actually part with.

-K

peanut · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 82 Location: i'm a chi girl

bumping for the update.

sun bear · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 443

I don't really have anything to trade right now, unless someone wants the legend of bagger vance, the other books i have i haven't finished right now. But this is making me smile smugly b/c there was another message board where someone totally yelled at me for buying a book from a used book store as if i were the scum of the earth and now i feel like they are the weird one as lots of people like used books, the library and trading :)

poo on them.

Anyway to the person with the Octavia Butler, was that book good? I have read wild seed and another one of hers which i can't remember, it was one where a black woman got her arm stuck in a wall in the beginning and basically whenever this white boy from slavery times needs help, she gets sucked into his dimension. both were pretty cool.

jt

brightcorner · Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 65 Location: SF bay area

pudding · Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 583 Location: NSW, Australia