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[labellementeuse]

I just spent an hour plundering the Children's tables at a second hand book fair. (Unless they have an SF&F section, I tend to avoid the adult literature sections of book fairs like the Steele-infested plagues they are.) My haul:

New Zealand!
- Tessa Duder, Mercury Beach
- Margaret Mahy, Memory
- Ruth Park, My Sister Sif (technically Australian, actually)
-Paula Boock, Dare Truth or Promise
- Fleur Beale, I Am Not Esther
- Maurice Gee, The Halfmen of O

SF&F!
- Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief and Queen of Attolia (which I adore)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights
- Donna Jo Napoli: Spinners and Zel
- Catherine Webb Mirror Wakes
- Kate Thompson Switchers and Midnight Choice
- Jon Sciezka Tut tut and Your Mother Was A Neanderthal
-Tamora Pierce First Test, Trickster's Choice, Realms of the Gods, Sandry's Book
- Margaret Petersen Haddix Running Out of Time
- Neil Gaiman Coraline
- Diane Duane The Book of Night with Moon (I do in fact already own this, but it was a nice paperback copy)
- Sandman: Book of Dreams (No idea what this is like)
- KA Applegate Animorphs #2 and #34 and Remnants #3,4,5,6,7,9,13

Other Stuff!
- Cynthia Voigt, Come a Stranger
- Gillian Cross, The Great Elephant Chase
- Jaclyn Moriarty, Finding Cassie Crazy
- Eric Carle, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me (I normally avoid picture books because a) they cause me heartache and b) it's going to be a long time before they'll be useful for me again. But asdfhghjk I couldn't just leave it there.
- CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Do you know how hard it is to get a cheap second hand copy of this? HARD. VERY HARD. *pleased*)

All that for $26, I am happy to say.

So! I have a spare copy of The Book of Night with Moon. It's ex-lib but apart from the barcode on the back is in great condition, looks like it was borrowed maybe three times (which is a tragedy all of its own, but still.) Looks like a 1999 print run. Anybody want it? I don't want money for it or anything, it was only 50c and unless you live in the wilds of Siberia and it's going to cost me $50 to send I'm not fussed about postage either. Leave me a comment if you want it, because otherwise I'm going to offer it at youngwizards, but I'll let y'all get in first if you want a copy.

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[shoeless-girl.livejournal.com]

I'll have it :)

Another question - I saw a copy of DWJ's Minor Arcana at a second-hand store the other day. Are you interested in owning a copy?

On an unrelated note... I've read the first four YW books. And I cannot find the fifth. I went online and I found out that there are EIGHT books.

How did I not know this?

[anna-en-route.livejournal.com]

Most of them are in the Wellington library in the YA section except for the last damnit...

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Neato, I'll send it up with the rest ASAP (I've been slack and kept them for so long, I know. Finally coming up to end of term so I should get through them and back up to you soon!)

Well, only the first four YW books were published in the UK, so until very very recently they were the only four available, ever, in mainstream NZ stores. Recently you can get them at Borders in Christchurch (and I'll pick up Dilemma and loan it to you, as well, BTW. I also have #6.) For some reason the libraries in the main centres seem to be happy enough to get them - possibly because I started pre-ordering them in Wellington...!! Yeah, eight. And the ninth is coming out... I guess next year sometime? I'll check when I get home. *dance*

[sennical.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I read Running Out of Time in the fifth grade and loved it.

And then I sat in the movie theater watching The Village a few years ago and thinking, "Wow, this plot sounds AWFULLY familiar."

Your huge list of books makes me very jealous.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Dude, totally. I haven't seen The Village, but I did remember thinking that this supposedly revolutionary plot twist didn't strike me as particularly creative at all, although I suppose a horror fan might think it was. *eyeroll*

>:D

[crankyspank.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I realize that one of our first online conversations revolved around Megan Whalen Turner, but I think we need to have another. Have you read The King of Attolia? Because you should. Because it's fabulous. And Gen just gets better.

Umm, ok. I just, needed to get that off my chest (because I'm surprising my best friend with it for Christmas, and no one else I know has read it).

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

ASDFGHJKL IS THAT THE NEW ONE. YES GOOGLE TELLS ME THAT IS THE NEW ONE. OMFG ILU THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS EXISTS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO DAMN LONG.

*checks catalogue* HAHAH YES MY LIBRARY HAS IT. Oops there go classes tomorrow.

Uh. Yes. YAY!

[crankyspank.livejournal.com]

My exact reaction when I stumbled across it on Amazon.com! I hope you enjoyed it!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

YES I DID. XD Although I missed Eddis and the magus, but still. Costis was great.