Further Adventures of a Hopeless Book Junkie

Just got back from the semiannual Friends of the Library book sale. You know, there's something about a library book sale that gives me a real junkie-with-a-needle kind of rush, but at the same time they're also more than a little frustrating, because even as one part of me is delightedly squealing "Oooh, books! Cheap books! Nifty books!" the more dour and rational side periodically throws water on my happy little fire by reminding me that I've already got more unread books than I have any remote hope of finishing in the next two years. Indeed, looking back on the last book sale (back in October), I see that, of the 13 books I bought then, I've read exactly one of them since. Sigh.

For the record, my haul this time consisted of:

Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Gardner Dozois

Arrive at Easterwine by R. A. Lafferty

Willard by Stephen Gilbert (since I'll probably never get around to seeing either version of the movie)

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Ascending by James Alan Gardner

Sanctuary and Cross-Currents edited by Robert Lynn Asprin (omnibus volumes of the "Thieves' World" shared-universe series)

All Things Wise and Wonderful and Every Living Thing by James Herriot

The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (whose books I have very fond memories of from my childhood)

Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke

The Dancer from Atlantis by Poul Anderson

Destination: Void by Frank Herbert

Demon Seed by Dean Koontz (thus fufilling the inexplicable tradition that I have to come back from every library sale with at least one book by either Koontz or King, whether I really want any more of their stuff or not)

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution by C. P. Snow

World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven

Well, we'll see how many of those I've actually gotten around to reading six months from now...