May 12th, 2006
There’s almost nothing I love so much as book shopping. Every year UT Press has a book sale where they sell some of the titles and also have a large clearance sale on “hurt” books. I’ve gone almost every year for a while (I didn’t make it out last year).
Anyway, here is this year’s haul:
The first is a group of books that are part of series for which I already own four volumes: The Legendary Past Series. I already have the volumes discussing Roman, Greek, Russian, and Hindu myths. Today I picked up the following:
Next is one of the two “full” sale price books I bought (the others I bought $3/ea. since they were “hurt”): The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer. It should be interesting, I’m hoping. Read the excerpts from the contemporary reviews at the link.
The second “full” sale price book is The Raven by Marquis James. This is a biography of Sam Houston, and sounded like it was worth a read. Sam Houston kind of fascinates me.
I’m studying Classics in school, and although UT has a strong department, the eastern empire period interests me a lot, and I don’t think that’s particularly UT’s main focus. But this book might fill in a little bit of that gap for me: The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian by James Allan Evans.
Another series which of which I already own a few books is the The Oratory of Classical Greece (I already have volumes Antiphon and Andocides, Dinarchus, Hyperides, Lycurgus, Isocrates, Volume 1, and Lysias). Today I got another volume in the series: Aeschines Chris Carey.
When you spend more than $50 books at the UT Press sale, you get a free book from a selection table. Often they don’t have anything particularly interesting, but hey, free book! Anyway, I spent $64 (for 13 books, pretty good), and so I got this: Surrender (But Don’t Give Yourself Away) by Spike Gillespie.
The last is Beowulf by Ruth P. M. Lehman. Apparently the gimmick for this book is that Lehman attempts a semblance of the original alliterative verse. We’ll see.
Hm. I need a new bookshelf. Anyone feeling generous?
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