bookmobile.

In my ongoing "someday I'll move" project, I'm clearing out cabinets and closets and shelves and beginning to get rid of stuff. So far, this is mostly books. Ok, to be honest, it's going to be mostly books all the way through. And some movies and CDs and maybe a couple of bottles of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab perfumes. The rest will be kitchen things and clothes that are currently entombed in my storage rental, and they'll get donated somewhere.

I planned to list books on ebay to send them on to homes where they'll be loved and appreciated, but I find that the prospect of launching and maintaining one more internet presence has paralyzed me. I'm going to try listing them here first, and if anyone's interested I'll gladly sell them to you. Just email me and I'll send you a PayPal invoice and pop them in the mail. Voila! Wonderful new books for you, with my deepest thanks. If there's interest and it goes well, I'll keep adding to the list. If not, well, it'll be back to ebay with me.

I'm going to call it $2 for paperbacks and $5 for hardcovers, but no reasonable offer refused. If you're interested in a bunch of titles and want to offer me a flat total, make an offer. If you'd like to see a photograph of the actual book, I have them. (I got that far into the listing process before getting overwhelmed.)

Here's what I've dug out so far, in no particular order.

In paperback:

Seventy-Seven Clocks by Christopher Fowler

Another You by Ann Beattie

Love, Always by Ann Beattie

Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie

Antartica (short stories) by Clare Keegan

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Black Dogs by Ian McEwan

Days of Obligation by Richard Rodriguez

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas

How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall

Off the Beaten Path: Stories of Place by collected authors

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

The Sin Eater by Alice Ellis

The Hidden by Tobias Hill

The Ice Storm by Rick Moody

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolfe (signed by author)

When the Messenger is Hot by Elizabeth Crane

Naked by David Sedaris

Vox by Nicholson Baker (this one's hardcover, but it's pretty beat up)

In hardcover:

A Gesture Life by Chang Rae Lee

Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt

City Life by Witold Rybczynski

Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Cross Channel by Julian Barnes

Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor

Night Train by Martin Amis

Experience by Martin Amis

My Movie Business: A Memoir by John Irving

Life at These Speeds by Jeremy Jackson

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem

Lake Effect by Rich Cohen

The Snow Geese by William Fiennes