tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-215629442012-01-21T10:11:22.047-08:00I am moving to London and need to sell some books. Want to buy 'em?hsgnoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1143522052313991912006-03-27T20:45:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:17:50.456-08:00Thanks to everyone who bought stuff, either by email or at our garage sale! I now have a lot less paraphanalia to get rid of before boarding that plane to London, and it's nice to know that some of my favourite books have gone to good homes. Thanks, all.<br /><br />There are a few items still to be sold if anyone's still interested. My bed, the big wooden bookshelf and the dressing table are still up for grabs, so <a href="mailto:hotsoupgirl@hotmail.com">contact me </a>if any of that sounds enticing. I will draw you a special picture, too, if you buy furniture from me: maybe a picture of a robot, or a dinosaur, or a robot dinosaur. Actually, you can choose what the picture's of, so long as it's not a portrait of Richard Dreyfuss. That's a hard limit. No Richard Dreyfuss! Sorry.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Carlie x<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114352205231399191?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141917626108711752006-03-09T07:18:00.000-08:002006-03-22T16:48:36.310-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5459/54/1600/fidge.0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5459/54/200/fidge.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />It's a Kelvinator 220 Litre: a small, clean little fridge, five years old and in good condition. It's got a small freezer on top with a separate door. That's not a picture of my actual fridge, by the way. I couldn't possibly eat that much celery.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114191762610871175?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141913946191783402006-03-09T06:14:00.000-08:002006-03-22T16:07:46.280-08:00Most of these books are secondhand and a bit worn.<br /><br />Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut - Frederic Raphael<br />A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman<br />Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America - Robert Hughes<br />Henry & June - Anais Nin<br />Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre<br />The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks<br />On the Couch with Chris Beck - Chris Beck<br />The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People<br />The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition - Ed Regis<br />The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell<br />Occidental Mythology - Joseph Campbell<br />Larousse World Mythology (big hardcover book)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114191394619178340?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141913647718020572006-03-09T06:05:00.000-08:002006-03-22T16:56:07.106-08:00While some of these books are brand new, most are secondhand and a bit worn.<br /><br />J M Coetzee - Elizabeth Costello<br />Yann Martel - The Life of Pi<br />Hanif Kureishi - Intimacy<br />Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius<br />Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity<br />Donna Tartt - The Secret History<br />Donna Tartt - The Little Friend<br />Peter Goldsworthy - Bleak Rooms<br />Haruki Murakami - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle<br />Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time<br />Don Delillo - White Noise<br />Don Delillo - Underworld<br />Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus<br />Richard Ford - Rock Springs<br />Richard Ford - The Sportswriter<br />Richard Ford - Independence Day<br />Kazuro Ishiguro - The Unconsoled<br />Kazuro Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day<br />Thomas Pynchon - Vineland<br />David Malouf - Remembering Babylon<br />Antony Jach - The Weekly Card Game<br />Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road<br />Nicholson Baker - Vox<br />Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude<br />Dashiel Hammett - The Maltese Falcon<br />Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep<br />Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange<br />John Irving - The Fourth Hand<br />Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things<br />Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction<br />Martin Amis - Yellow Dog<br />Tama Janowitz - A Cannibal in Manhattan<br />Tama Janowitz - Slaves of New York<br />Roald Dahl - The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka<br />Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the Only Fruit<br />James Joyce - Ulysses (annotated)<br />Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace<br />Margaret Atwood - Good Bones<br />Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin<br />Margaret Atwood - Wilderness Tips<br />Margaret Atwood - Bluebeard's Egg<br />Margaret Atwood - Surfacing<br />Margaret Atwood - Bodily Harm<br />Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye<br />Margaret Atwood - Dancing Girls<br />Anais Nin - A Spy in the House of Love<br />Susan Orlean - The Orchid Thief<br />Linda Jaivin - Eat Me<br />Sean Condon - Film<br />William Burroughs - Naked Lunch<br />Sue Woolfe - Leaning Towards Infinity<br />Thomas Harris - Hannibal (The worst book ever written!)<br />Patrick White - Voss<br />Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections<br />Janette Turner Hospital - Borderline<br />Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay<br />Frank Moorhouse - The Coca Cola Kid<br />Peter Carey - War Crimes<br />Peter Carey - The Fat Man in History<br />Peter Carey - The Tax Inspector<br />Peter Carey - The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith<br />Peter Carey - Illywhacker<br />Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda<br />Peter Carey - Jack Maggs<br />Zadie Smith - White Teeth<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114191364771802057?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141912352106575632006-03-09T05:52:00.000-08:002006-03-22T23:13:53.353-08:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">HP Scanjet 4400 Scanner - $10</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">HP Deskjet 845c printer - $10</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Feather Boas - $3 the lot</span><br />Bag of 3 boas: red and pink<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Pop Art Glass Mao Zedong Clock - $20</span><br />Still in the package; never been used.<br /><br /><strong>Cork noticeboard - $2<br /><br />Round, green, wooden table - $10</strong><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114191235210657563?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141908331110107962006-03-09T04:44:00.000-08:002006-03-22T17:09:00.686-08:00While some of these books are brand new, most are secondhand and a bit worn.<br /><br />Kate Llewellyn - Selected Poems<br />Kate Llewellyn - Figs<br />Kate Llewellyn - Luxury<br />Kate Llewellyn - Honey<br />Kate Llewellyn The Waterlily<br />Andrew Burke - Mother Waits for Father Late<br />David P Reiter - The Snow in Us<br />Rod Moran - Against the Era<br />Susan Howe - The Nonconformist's Memorial<br />Peter Goldsworthy - New and Selected Poems<br />Jim Carroll - Fear of Dreaming<br />Billy Marshall - Stoneking, Singing the Snake<br />Peter Bakowski - In the Human Night<br />Peter Bakowski - The Heart at 3am<br />Jenny Boult - The Hotel Anonymous<br />Jenny Boult - The White Rose and the Bath<br />Dipti Saravanamutti - The Colosseum<br />John Tranter - Different Hands<br />Morgan Yasbincek - Night Reversing<br />Samuel Wagan Watson - Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight<br />Philip Salom - The Silent Piano<br />Lis Hoffman - Libido<br />Walt Whitman (100 page Everyman's Poetry selection)<br />Steven Herrick - The Sound of Chopping<br />Steven Herrick - Caboolture<br />Marcella Polain - Dumbstruck<br />Rory Harris - Over the Outrow<br />Brian Dibble - Analogues<br />Pamela Brown - This World, This Place<br />Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood<br />Thalia - Night Flowers<br />Lewis Carroll - The Hunting of the Snark (annotated)<br />Mal Morgan - Once Father and God<br />Brenda Walker - Crush<br />Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes - Selected Poems<br />Lauren Williams - The Sad Anthropologist<br />Susan Mitchell - The Water Inside the Water<br /><br />ANTHOLOGIES & JOURNALS<br /><br />HEAT: 4, 5, 6, 8, 9<br />Going Down Swinging: 9, 13 (With Jas H Duke tribute CD), 14, 17, 19, 21<br />Meanjin: 1/1998, 1/1999, 2/2001<br /><br />Erotic Poems from The Greek Anthology<br />Visible Ink, Launched<br />Tuesday Night Live: Fifteen Years of Friendly Street<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114190833111010796?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21562944.post-1141895180270453672006-03-08T22:47:00.000-08:002006-03-22T16:11:29.956-08:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">Dark wood dressing table with bevelled mirror - $85</span><br />40s/50s-style dark wood vanity unit with a great big mirror, big drawers, and decorative handles. Very pretty. Missing a bit off one of the back legs, though.<br /><br /><strong>Dining Table and chairs - $85 ono</strong><br />A medium-sized, hand-made, rectangular, wooden table. Pine, I think. The legs have been painted brown, and the top left oiled. To be honest, the top does need to be sanded and oiled again - it's a bit sticky in places - but once that's done it will be a lovely table. i did once buy a block of sandpaper intending to do this, but gave up after three minutes of pathetic, limp-wristed, Mr Burns-style dabbing. I am lazy, but you, I'm sure, are superior to me. The table comes with four chairs. They are, admittedly, upholstered in beige vinyl, but they're an interesting shape, and I think quite cute.<br /><br /><strong>Queen-sized ensemble - $500 ono </strong><br />An $1100 bed that I bought on sale for $750 in 2004. It's a Crown Posture "Backcare" Wool ensemble. Everyone who sleeps, or even casually lays across this bed for a few moments, remarks how comfortable it is. You could put whole bags of frozen peas beneath the mattress and still awaken refreshed and unbruised and ready to marry the prince in the morning. Okay, maybe ignore the bit about the peas. But seriously. Great bed. I've taken care of it, too: flipped and rotated the mattress every six months, and cossetted it in a quilted mattress protector. <br /><br /><strong>Wooden bookshelf - $110 ono</strong><br />A lovely pine bookshelf with compartments. Twice as big as your average, piss-weak, bookshelf. <br /><br /><strong>Two sets of metal shelves - $25 for both ono</strong><br />Nothing fancy about these; I think I bought them from Bunnings. Four shelves apiece.<br /><br /><strong>Big wooden desk - $20 ono</strong><br />I loved this when I first bought it from the Brotherhood of St Laurence, but it is admittedly a Frankenstein's monster of a desk: handmade from the carcasses of other, expired, desks. That's how it looks to me, anyhow. Could do with a sanding. <br /><br /><strong>Wooden chair - $10</strong><br />With arms and stuff! Suitable for sitting on! Upholstered with burgundy vinyl. Almost, but not quite, elegant.<br /><br /><strong>Wooden stool - $45 ono</strong><br />Sweet little handmade stool I bought from an antique store in the Yarra Valley. Exactly the right shape and size for sitting on and playing flamenco guitar. I am not even joking.<br /><br /><strong>Wooden sidetable - $25 ono</strong><br />Charmingly wonky sidetable thing with special slot for putting your book in.<br /><br /><strong>Red sideboard - $10 ono</strong><br />Fire engine red, slightly scuffed cyborg with drawers of varying sizes. Cute but a bit rickety. Great for keeping all your Torvil and Dean memorabilia in.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Card table - $10 ono</span><br />Burgundy-coloured. Folds up. Ideal for canasta.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21562944-114189518027045367?l=booksforblighty.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>hsgnoreply@blogger.com0