My mother told me yesterday that she came across a LL book that I gave her many years ago. It was 'Galloway'. I spoken about my mother putting her initials and year in the front of the LL books she's read so it was interesting that this book was dated 2002. I was wondering, do you all have LL books that mean more than just a printed copy. Maybe they are books that someone special to you read, like me; some books you wouldn't part with for any price. So, are there any LL books that are special to you?
Tennessee Dave
"Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God" Author unknown
#1. "RE: "Special " LL books" In response to Reply # 0
My first copy of Smoke From This Altar. I found it in my early days of internet searching and the Librarian at work who was the only staff member with authority to buy internationally did all the clicking so that it went on her work account. Before the book arrived her cancer returned in a most aggressive manner and she was given months if not weeks to live. As a thank you for the manner in which I supported her final weeks and exit from work she paid for the book. It arrived a week or so before she passed away and she sent it to me along with a letter explaining why she had paid for it. On my first trip to the USA I managed to get Kathy to autograph it for me. It hold pride of place in my heart and my bookshelf.
Les Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
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Les The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
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Boy, that is something I really hadn’t given a lot of thought to. The first novel I picked up is the easy answer...FLINT...and I picked it up to find out what it meant. It never dawned on me it could be a character’s name, and I had no idea it would lead to decades of reading enjoyment. It is also in hindsight kind of funny that I avoided the Sackett novels for years because I didn’t want to feel trapped...not realizing I already had been.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN
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Well, my wife just surprised me with a Christmas present I never expected... she had stumbled upon someone who was selling their leatherette LL's... 93 of them. There were also some regular hardback and book club collections; ten volumes containing 18 books in total. Also a first printing of a book club edition of The Searchers was included with the LLs. So, now, I have some Special copies...
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I started with Bendigo Shafter. And not just because it was first alphabetically of the collection, but because I had been thinking of it before receiving the books. I bought my first copy of it when I was 17 or 18, when it first came out in paperback, and have read it dozens of times. Maybe because I was the same age as Ben as the story began, but it made an impression on me, and in how I've grown up since then. I have mixed feelings about divesting myself of my old books; I am sentimental, it seems. My son Logan will get most of them, in a few months. I gave him Westward the Tide to read on the plane, since two of his names are from one of it's characters. Hopefully he'll appreciate it.
