Ship Full o' Pirates

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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end.  You live several lives while reading it.  ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

I’m happy to pair up my new feature called Good Reads with a new linky hosted by FishMama at Life as Mom called I’m Booking It in 2010.  I’m so glad she started a book reading linky.  I love a linky anyway, but the thing is, I haven’t been reading as much as I ought to, to my kids and for my own enrichment.

That’s about to change.

I have a whole list of books I have been meaning to get around to reading.  Now I’ll be all over it, because I told you I was gonna.  Just knowing that I told someone lends a bit of accountability.  I couldn’t bear the shame if you asked me in 3 months, “Hey, how did you like that book that you told the whole www you were gonna read and never picked up and is sitting there on your desk gathering dust?  Huh?  How’s that goin’?”

So, here’s my list for the next 4 weeks.

• P.G. Wodehouse, Five Complete Novels
• Tithing and Dominion by Powell and Rushdoony
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (to the kids)
• one more book to the kids (haven’t decided yet)

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.  ~Author Unknown

As many of you long time readers know, my Cowboys have a little side business selling books.  The books they sell are from the Vision Forum clearance store (which is very different from the Vision Forum online clearance outlet).

The reason the books were in the clearance store is usually a minor ding or smudge or some other reasonably minor damage.  If you are a perfectionist, you won’t be interested in these books.  But the rest of us can enjoy a real bargain as these books are deeply discounted!

This week I am starting a new feature called Good Reads.  I’ll be posting books for sale by the Cowboys.  About ten books per week.  But I’ll be posting the detailed info on my book blog, called Good Reads.

This week is Hank’s turn.   Here’s a list of what he is offering this week.

• The Pirate City by R.M. Ballantyne (2 copies)
• Post Haste by R.M. Ballantyne
• The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne (3 copies)
• With Roberts to Pretoria by G.A. Henty
• The Survival Handbook (a DK book)

Head on over to Good Reads to see photos and read prices.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.  ~Anna Quindlen

Hank has published a great review of the book The Pirate City on his blog, Calico Zak.

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