Babble Book Exchange

Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids and Life in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein.
The Whole Woman, Germaine Greer
Class Warfare in the Information Age, Michael Perelman
The Undeclared War: Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism, James Laxer

I bought [url=http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764553038/qid=1027911217/sr=8-1/r... once in the hopes of a chance...

It's hardly been touched, and would be better suited for something later in life anyways... Free net of shipping, I guess, to a good home *sigh*

Getting used to the idea of parting is a problem too - with books! with books [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img] - but I guarantee I'll pry myself into putting something better up eventually though, as soon as I can.

Very cool lists Michelle and meades!

hmmm...Michelle, i wouldn't mind taking Achebe off your hands if i have any books that you might be interested in.

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312270828/qid=1027915455/sr=8-1/... Satanic Verses[/url] -- Salman Rushdie[/b]

mint condition. i technically own three copies of this, my favourite novel, so i should [i]probably[/i] get rid of this paperback...but i value it very highly, so you'll have to talk me into it.

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870679791/qid=1027915732/sr=8-1/... -- Iceberg Slim[/b]

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141181265/qid=1027915846/sr=2-1/...'s Wake[/url] -- James Joyce[/b]
don't ask why...

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375707492/qid=1027916055/sr=2-2/... of Girls and Women[/url] -- Alice Munro[/b]
i have the Penguin edition tho'.

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0771099983/qid=1027916233/sr=1-3/... Double Hook[/url] -- Sheila Watson[/b]

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802132952/qid=1027916325/sr=1-1/... Lunch[/url] -- William S. Burroughs[/b]

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140077022/qid=1027916377/sr=2-1/... Noise[/url] -- Don DeLillo[/b]

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393312836/qid=1027916430/sr=2-1/... Clockwork Orange[/url] -- Anthony Burgess[/b]
the Penguin, again.

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802150241/qid=1027916539/sr=1-5/... -- Samuel Beckett[/b]

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0618074511/qid=1027916818/sr=1-1/... Light of Day[/url] -- Anita Desai[/b]
the Vintage edition.

[b][url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060928778/qid=1027916994/sr=1-2/... Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon[/url] -- Pablo Neruda[/b]

and i'll leave it at that for now...

Vicky's literary pet peeve:

quote:

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Finnegan's Wake -- James Joyce

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there is NO apostrophe in [b]Finnegans Wake[/b]!

Good list, though.

I don't even want to try and list my books either [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img] But I have political-economic books by Batra, McQuaig, Krugman, Laxer, and Hellyer.

Plus a raftload of odds-and-ends fiction and science fiction (most of my s.f. is by Asimov)

Oh, one more- [url=http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z35363361]The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels[/url], by Thomas Cahill. It was [i]really[/i] good! I've got the paperback version though- y'know, it's odd, I can't find a single book by Cahill in hardcover here in the Sault. [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img]

You're a peach!

Boy, now I need to list the books I own. My dude is a biblophile, and hoards them, but we could do an exchange, as I kinda know you.... and he's not here anyways. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]

I'd love to take you up on that offer, I'll catalogue the books tonight and PM them to you.

Off the top of my head,

You might like the American Way of Birth, it's very well written by Jessica Midford, it's not about babies or anything, it's the political and historical treatment of women who are pregnant. I personally think it's a feminist must.

I think we have a copy of Malus Maleficarum (sp?) that was the hand book used by the "witch-hunters". We have the Satanic Verses too, but sounds like you can get it off of Mohammed. Lots on demonology.

Pulp fiction.... I have lots of Steven King, a couple Dean Koontz, Micheal Chreiton (sp), etc.

I'll list them and let you know.

*with a start* Politics of childbirth books? Where, where?

My good Mom is working on her doctoral dissertation on just such things... I came across The American Way of Birth for her so she has it already, but if anyone has [i]anything[/i] else at all - not practical expecting books of course, she understandably called it a day after coming up with me [img]wink.gif" border="0[/img] - but this sort of thing I would [i]so[/i] be up for a trade.

Ah, here it is, I was looking for this thread.

A notice to babblers. There's a good organization that you can donate books to. [url=http://www.neww.org/about_neww.htm#top]Network of East-West Women[/url], specifically to its Book and Journal Project, chaired by Ann Snitow. The B&JP people send books for free to interested individuals and organizations in ex-communist countries, Central Asia, parts of Africa, and in effect wherever it is possible and wherever publications in English are difficult to come by.

It started as feminist theory centred collection, but now the Book Project sends almost anything that the people might need. Most of the users are still women, women's centres, alternative educational institutions. Here's what Ann's assistant Bob told me in a recent email:

"What we're always looking for are feminist books (naturally!) and anything else related to women, family, domestic abuse, globalization, etc etc. Also, a lot of centres have been asking for us stuff on girls and the problems they face."

I used to be the user (even after I moved to the West) and must say that probably I'd never have graduated from anything without the NEWW. It's an organization that has changed lives of many Eastern European women.

Now I am happy that I can donate a bit. I work for a publishing company which has connections with many other small publishing companies that publish just the right books.

Also, I don't think they have any Canadian reps or too many titles coming from Canada. Time to change that, eh?