Kevin's Watch

Perhaps this might have been more appropriate to the suggestions forum!

I've been wondering if there would be any interest in starting a Kevin's Watch book swap? I am sure that many of you, like me, have books you don't want to keep or need to free up room so you can get more books (or you just need to free up room period!) and you don't know what to do with them!

I haven't given much thought as to the how this would work out but would try to come up with something if there was interest.

Any thoughts?

If nothing gets started here, bookcrossing.com is a terrific site for information on releasing books to the wild.

I'd be interested. I have multiple copies of books I don't want. Tell you what... I'll post a list of what I'm looking (or willing, for the right trade) to get rid of (when I get home), and if anybody bites, we have the beginnings of a KW book swap.

Sounds good.....I can get a list together this weekend.

I have the following books I'm willing to trade:

The Runes of the Earth, by Stephen R. Donaldson. Hardly used.

-jay

I already have one of those.

kevinswatch wrote:I have the following books I'm willing to trade:

The Runes of the Earth, by Stephen R. Donaldson. Hardly used.

-jay

How far are you now?

I never get rid of my books i hve a rarely large bookcase full of them and i love them all, except the rubbish ones.

Book swap? Sounds interesting to me, because I have a LOT of books.
Read all, liked only about half.

Jay - I will accept your copy of RUNES for a few Tom Clancy
or Dean Koontz novels.
(...or Stephen King, or Dennis Lehane, or Leonard Nimoy,
or "Franklin W. Dixon"...)

Warmark wrote:I never get rid of my books i hve a rarely large bookcase full of them and i love them all, except the rubbish ones.

Well, here's your chance to unload some of them!

This is what I was thinking.......(and please, if anyone thinks of something that might work better, say so!)

To get a book, you give a book (although, not necessarily to the same person)

Shiping to be done by the person sending the book and it should all even out.

And that, my friends, is as far as I've gotten!

Warmark wrote: How far are you now?

A powerful 316 pages into it. Hehe.-jay

Wow, you're cruisin', aren't you? Give it a few more years, and you might actually finish.

'Kay, here's the list of books I can bear to part with. I'll keep adding as I find more. If I'm getting rid of it, chance are that I tried to read it and gave up, so if you want to know what any of these are about, look them up at www.amazon.com . Everything is paperback unless noted.

Fantasy

Gryphon's Eyrie by Andre Norton and A. C. Crispin. 1985 TOR Books edition.

The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley. 1987 Ace Fantasy edition.

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. Mckillip. 1986 Berkley Book edition.

Magic: The Gathering: Tapestries. An Anthology. Edited by Kathy Ice, featuring David Drake, Morgan Llywelyn, S.M. Stirling and others. 1995 Harper Paperbacks edition.


Science Fiction

Star Trek 2 adapted by James Blish. 1975 Bantam Books edition. James Blish's adaptations of the original series episodes. The episodes included are: Arena, A Taste of Armageddon, Tomorrow is Yesterday, Errand of Mercy, Court Martial, Operation -- Annihilate!, The City on the Edge of Forever and Space Seed. (I have three copies... I think I can spare one .)

For Love of Mother-Not by Alan Dean Foster. 1983 Del Rey edition. The back cover is heavily creased across the middle.


General Fiction

Heaven and Hell by John Jakes. The last book of the North and South trilogy. 1987 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich "Book Club" edition. Hardback.

The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt. 1999 Ballantine Books edition.


Young Adult

Mom, the Wolf Man and Me by Norma Klein. 1974 Avon Books edition.

Summer Rules by Robert Lipsyte. 1983 Bantam Books edition.

I surrender my teeth more easily than I do my books.

--A

Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:Wow, you're cruisin', aren't you? Give it a few more years, and you might actually finish.

I'm a reading pro, what can I say, heh. I'm reading so fast, the pages are catching on fire because of how fast I'm turning them.

I forgot to bring the book to Wisconsin, so that set me back another week. Now that I'm back, I haven't been able to jump start back into reading it. Maybe this weekend I'll force myself to get back into it. On the plus side, I may be able to finish only weeks before Fatal Revenant, thus saving me years of waiting, heh.

I'm sure I have a few books I'm willing to part with myself. I'll have to look around.-jay

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. Mckillip. How could you?!
I'll take it off your hands.

danlo wrote:The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. Mckillip. How could you?!
I'll take it off your hands.

I tried reading it, really I did. *shrug* We can't all be fans of everything, I guess. PM me your address if you want it.