Remember I was talking about giving away the review copies of books I don't care to keep? They have been starting to pile on too much and I want to make space for books I like, so I was initially thinking of a way to cooperate with the Otherland Bookshop to leave them there for people to go and just take the books they want. I have been in talks with them, and it looks a little tricky, because, as a bookshop which also has a used books section, they want to sell books and yes, they want to sell my secondhand books too, and not give them away. We are still searching a possible solution, but I'm somewhat impatient and will start with the giveaway for those of you in Berlin. I really want to start giving books as soon as possible and begin with the first batch you see on the picture.
📖 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse - Unread/unused editor's copy that Clarence left with me when he moved back to NYC.
📖 Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward - A fan of Catriona, but not a fan of this book, what are you gonna do...
📖 Baal by Robert McCammon - A book that doesn't seem to exist. There is no Goodreads entry and search machines can't find it either. Very mysterious.
📖 Little Sister Death by William Gay - It was one of our pre-pandemic reads at the OSFBC, but didn't really hit me. Still, a classic.
📖 Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi - Religious babble, although well written.
📖 Machine City by Scott J. Holliday - Another unused/unread remnant from Clarence.
📖 Consumed by David Cronenberg - I'm not really giving this away, I just have two copies. Last spring I met for the first time in real life Queralt, my Goodreads friend and co-moderator for Shine&Shadow, here in Berlin and we had dinner together. The sweet person she is, she gifted me a book she thought I'd enjoy and it was a good choice. I'm keeping her copy.
📖 The Creeper by A. M. Shine - This book is just nope.
📖 A People's History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal - Unused/ unread editor's copy.
📖 New Model Army by Robert Adams - As a lifelong fan of the band of the same name and a fan of Adams too, I thought this book would be all I ever wanted. It wasn't.
📖 Black Lake Manor by Guy Morpuss - Good book, but as with every thriller, once you've got the solution, it's unlikely you'll read again. And it's a big format hard cover copy which doesn't fit well into my shelf.
📖 The Bank by Bentley Little - Great story for fans of King, very similar in style, just a little more anti-capitalistic. I just think if you've read one Little you've read all of them, so similar in style.
📖 Dead Silence by S. A. Barnes - Hard cover copy, I'm just not very fond of this book.
📖 If You Died Tomorrow, I Would Eat Your Corpse by Wrath James White - I don't mean to piss off someone with the name Wrath but... These poems aren't that good. White collected poems about all the ways he wants to hurt-fuck his wife and all the way he wants to kill his ex-wife in the same book. A little disrespectful too, maybe?
If any of you guys wants to have one of these just send me a mail, I will put a hold of those for you, and the remaining books I will donate to Otherland. In the unlikely case that you don't have my mail just drop a comment, it first lands in my inbox anyway. You can pick up your books at the Otherland, I will leave them in the pickup shelf with your name on it as early as tomorrow - and Esther already announced she wants some, so hurry up, haha! Please don't hesitate to reach out or pass the knowledge on, I received the majority of these for free and I'm giving them away for free.
I hope you're having a great time and a great weekend!
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