recs and books!

[glass_icarus]

+ Fandom things first, because the books will EAT YOUR LIFE:
- Sailing with the Tide by zephre, aka AGLAIN FANART omg!!! Thank you, Free-for-all, for bringing the awesome. :D
- so many colours it nearly broke my heart (currently anonymous)- Padma and Parvati (and Holi!), quiet and gorgeous. &hearts &hearts

+ A while back, zahrawithaz pointed me to the Princeton University Press online book sale, open to those in the US and Canada through March 31st, and yesterday I finally got around to browsing through the titles. So many pretties! *____*

Books I caved and ordered:
- Enough to Say It's Far
- Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization
- Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Post-Colonial Bombay
- The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out
- India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England

Books on my consideration list:
- Call it English: The Languages of Jewish-American Literature
- A Tribble's Guide to Space: How to Get to Space and What to Do When You are There
- On Bullshit
- Notes of a Pianist
- The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders
- In Hora Mortis/Under the Iron of the Moon: Poems
- Here Be Dragons: A Fantastic Bestiary
- Chinese Primer Vols. 1-3
- The Door in the Sky

In conclusion: HELP FRIENDS! I cannot justify buying all the rest of these; I need to be careful of my shelf space and my budget. Which ones would you choose?

Comments

[dhobikikutti]

I will be the practical, annoying auntie-type and point out that you can get all of those books from a library, read them, and then decide if you are going to ever actually want to own them. If you're going to buy one or two, buy the poetry, because that's the sort of stuff you want sitting around ready to dip into.

[glass_icarus]

Hee! I was considering this approach, but my local library is unlikely to have many of them. (Although now that I think about it, it costs something like $10 to get a borrowing card from my university library, which is something I never got round to doing. Probably the best investment!)

[avendya]

I hate you so much right now.

Which is to say, I don't know what I'm buying, but I can't afford all the stuff I want.

[glass_icarus]

Hee! I am totally planning to narrow things down by figuring out what I can locate in various libraries, and subsequently how likely I am to reread.

[avendya]

I managed to narrow it down to one book that made me jump up and down - Women in Purple, and had a friend add it to his order.

[unavee]

Oh, thank you for the hp fic rec! That was really lovely.

And now I'm spending way too much time making a book list /o\

[glass_icarus]

I'm glad you liked it! :D

Haha, saaame omg.