My Weekly Book

Yesterday was just ridiculous.

First of all I went to the library where there was a second-hand booksale. They’d had a clear-out of the horror and sci-fi sections. There were several Buffy novels, a short-story collection by William Gibson, a Philip K Dick novel, a Tomb Raider novelisation, a couple of decent-looking random sci-fi stories and (for some reason) a biography of Michael Schumacher written by ITV pundit James Allen. This just confirms my impression that Schumi is an android, a piece of very advanced engineering created by Ferrari. However they still haven’t managed to install the sporting ethics software correctly… Anyway. The point is that I came home with rather a lot of books.

Then we went to do the recycling and found some more books abandoned there - presumably because the relevant skips were full to overflowing. They hadn’t been wrecked by a rain shower so far… But I will still any murmurings of conscience by donating a tenner to the relevant charity next time I happen to be passing. Here’s a picture of the day’s catch:

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As to the book skip itself, I did find this rather amusing. I am sure there are bibliophiles capable of trying to climb inside but I’m not among them. The chute is currently jammed open in this position because it’s so full:

Here’s a close-up of the sign:

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A list of all the titles:

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gatekeeper Trilogy book one - Out of the Madhouse - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Blooded - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Little Things - Rebecca Moesta
• Unseen: The Burning - Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte (Buffy/Angel crossover)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Gatekeeper Trilogy book three - Sons of Entropy - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Faith Trials - James Laurence
• Tomb Raider - a novelisation by Mel Odom based on the film screenplay
• Burning Chrome - William Gibson
• Martian Time-Slip Philip K Dick
• Light - M John Harrison
• Underdogs - Rob Ryan
• Panic - Jeff Abbott
• The Autocourse Annual 1999-2000
• Michael Schumacher: Driven to Extremes - James Allen
• The Double Eagle - James Twining

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