FREE BOOKS
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jhameia- Dr. Shapiro passed away earlier this year, and as good hoarders go, had a library collection of SIX. THOUSAND. BOOKS. In English, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Half of them have already gone to private collections and libraries, but the other half is still looking for a home, so tonight I went over with a prof and another grad student to go through her books.
OH. MY. GOD.
Of course, she had a wide array in her fields (French, so lots of French history, literature). But she also had a whole host of other things?? Like there was a whole box on religion, and a whole box of Greek classics, a half-shelf of cookbooks (which, in retrospect, I should have claimed, because I know so many people who cook). LOTS of feminist theory. Oddly a bunch of anthropology and sociology books. There's a novel set in Thailand?! Bunch of Dada books, bunch of film books, lots of art books. I have a beautiful copy of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, harcover, English translation. She also had some Asian-American anthologies (like The Big Aiiieeeee! and if you want this one you can have it). I have four books in The Fontana Economic History of Europe which I'm going to read through for my dissertation.
I picked out three boxes of books and could only bring home one box because I was sharing a car. This haul includes:
- Out of Place by Edward Said
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua
- A Question of Power by Bessie Head
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Philosopher in the Kitchen by Brillat-Savarin (and once I'm done with this I'll pass it off to the prof who got me to the place, because she does French and food studies and was excited about it; I was surprised she'd never heard of it!)
- bunch of books on visual arts and theory
- something something postmodern feminism
- a collection of those photo slides? I don't remember what they're called anymore. One of those things you plugged into a projector.
Uhm. Look. There's a lot. Basically, if you want some free books, leave me a comment about generally which field you'd like books in and I'll look. Her friend is boxing up books and moving them out on Thursday night, and I plan on heading out on Friday, hopefully with someone who has a car, to pick through the rest of the books.
Currently I have a couple of books that I don't think I actually want and can part with:
-Angry Women (this one: http://www.amazon.com/Angry-Women-Andrea-Juno/dp/1890451053 I picked it out because there're interviews with bell hooks and Susie Bright)
- This is The Beat Generation, James Campbell (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520230330)
-The Big Aiiieeeee, eds Frank Chin & others (http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Aiiieeeee-Frank-Chin/dp/0452010764)
Pretty sure I have more in that other box. I'll post here when I get them back home.
- I was totally going to finish the pinafore this first half of the week and was stymied by the lack of a zipper! And of course this is after the Daffodil Dash so my coupons don't work anymore. I realized I really ought to get some supplies for WisCon too!
- Been working on the ppt review for the course I'm TA'ing. Finally hitting the bits on Greek theatre. Still trying to figure out whether I'm going to upload this or not--a huge part of me doesn't want to because I know some of the students are just going to crib off the words and not actually study. Another part of me thinks they'll probably piss themselves if they can't access the notes. I'll ask the prof tomorrow and see what she thinks, and show her what I've got so far too.
OH. MY. GOD.
Of course, she had a wide array in her fields (French, so lots of French history, literature). But she also had a whole host of other things?? Like there was a whole box on religion, and a whole box of Greek classics, a half-shelf of cookbooks (which, in retrospect, I should have claimed, because I know so many people who cook). LOTS of feminist theory. Oddly a bunch of anthropology and sociology books. There's a novel set in Thailand?! Bunch of Dada books, bunch of film books, lots of art books. I have a beautiful copy of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin, harcover, English translation. She also had some Asian-American anthologies (like The Big Aiiieeeee! and if you want this one you can have it). I have four books in The Fontana Economic History of Europe which I'm going to read through for my dissertation.
I picked out three boxes of books and could only bring home one box because I was sharing a car. This haul includes:
- Out of Place by Edward Said
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua
- A Question of Power by Bessie Head
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Philosopher in the Kitchen by Brillat-Savarin (and once I'm done with this I'll pass it off to the prof who got me to the place, because she does French and food studies and was excited about it; I was surprised she'd never heard of it!)
- bunch of books on visual arts and theory
- something something postmodern feminism
- a collection of those photo slides? I don't remember what they're called anymore. One of those things you plugged into a projector.
Uhm. Look. There's a lot. Basically, if you want some free books, leave me a comment about generally which field you'd like books in and I'll look. Her friend is boxing up books and moving them out on Thursday night, and I plan on heading out on Friday, hopefully with someone who has a car, to pick through the rest of the books.
Currently I have a couple of books that I don't think I actually want and can part with:
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- This is The Beat Generation, James Campbell (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520230330)
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Pretty sure I have more in that other box. I'll post here when I get them back home.
- I was totally going to finish the pinafore this first half of the week and was stymied by the lack of a zipper! And of course this is after the Daffodil Dash so my coupons don't work anymore. I realized I really ought to get some supplies for WisCon too!
- Been working on the ppt review for the course I'm TA'ing. Finally hitting the bits on Greek theatre. Still trying to figure out whether I'm going to upload this or not--a huge part of me doesn't want to because I know some of the students are just going to crib off the words and not actually study. Another part of me thinks they'll probably piss themselves if they can't access the notes. I'll ask the prof tomorrow and see what she thinks, and show her what I've got so far too.
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