A Towering Book Giveaway

Inspired by Miss Laurie's recent giveaway on Old-Fashioned Charm, I've decided to share some of my book collection with you.  Literally, not virtually.  I'm having a yard sale with some friends next month, and so I'm once again going through my possessions, taking a good hard look at everything I own and figuring out if I need/want them, or could be happy without them.  I'm including my book and movie collections in this endeavor, and I've got a tower of twenty books that I no longer want to own, but that I think my blog friends might enjoy.

I'm breaking them up by genre, since I know people who like poetry might not like mysteries, and so on.  You can enter as many or as few of the giveaways as you want.  I'll be drawing one name per book, but obviously some people might win more than one book.  Also, if you choose to blog about this giveaway to earn an extra entry, you can just blog about it once -- that counts just fine for multiple giveaways.  You don't have to post six different times if you want to enter all six giveaways :-)

This giveaway runs through Sunday, August 10th.  I'll draw the winners on Monday, August 11th.  PLEASE be sure you provide a CURRENT email address so that if you win and I email you to ask for your mailing address, you get the message.  Any winner who does not respond within one week (by Monday, August 18th) will be disqualified, and I will pick a new winner.  

Be aware that all these books are USED, and some of them do have things written in them.  I bought some of them new and some of them used, and one I won in a giveaway myself.  If I've reviewed a book here, I'll link its title to my review so you know what I thought of it.

Enough.  Here are the books.

Poetry

Selected Poems by Robert Frost -- hardcover, 300+ pages of poems by my favorite poet.  I have his Complete Poems now, so don't need this smaller selection anymore.

Sonnets of Love and Friendship -- hardcover collection of romantic poetry by people like Browning and Wordsworth and Shakespeare and a bunch of poets I'd never heard of before.

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Mystery

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr -- adventures "based on unsolved cases from the original stories" that are readable and enjoyable, but I don't think I'll want to re-read them.  Hardcover.

The Hand in the Glove by Rex Stout -- NOT a Nero Wolfe mystery, but an enjoyable mystery nonetheless.  Stars female PI Dol Bonner, who does pop up in the Wolfe mysteries sometimes.  Some mild language, IIRC.

Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker -- Chandler wrote the first 4 chapters before he died, and Parker finished it thirty years later.  It's about Philip Marlowe, and it's been years since I read it, but the back copy mentions "greed, lust, and murder."

This Dame for Hire by Sandra Scoppettone -- about a female PI named Faye Quick in NYC during WWII.  I never finished reading this because I didn't like the dialog style, so can't speak to the content.

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Newer Classics

Every Living Thing by James Herriot -- I love this book, but I have another copy now.  Stories of a country vet in Scotland, sometimes a bit of mild language.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury -- lots of short stories about Mars and Martians.

My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara -- a boy and a horse become friends.  Another one I have two copies of.

Shane by Jack Schaefer -- a boy idolizes the gunman who works for his father.  This novel is the basis for the Alan Ladd movie by the same title.  I love this book, but I have another copy.

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Older Classics

Hamlet by William Shakespeare -- full confession?  I have twelve other versions.  I can share.

King Arthur's Death/Morte Arthure/Le Morte Arthur translated by Brian Stone -- I love stories about Camelot, but Arthur's death is too sad and I don't want to read about it anymore.

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard -- all about treasure hunting and adventures.  I enjoyed it, but not enough to read it again and again.

Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe -- I realized I really don't love Poe, and so when my kids need to read his stories for school when they're older, we can get them from the library.

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens -- if you don't know what this is about, you should.  Again, I have another copy and realized having two is silly.

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Writing

The Right to Write by Julia Cameron -- this was used as a text book when I took Creative Writing in college, and I realized I haven't referred to it for years, so time to pass it along to another writer who could benefit from Cameron's excellent advice.  I wrote and underlined in it, just so you know.

Fast Fiction:  Creating Fiction in Five Minutes by Roberta Allen -- got it for the same class, wrote and underlined in it a bunch.  Lots of prompts and exercises and info on how to write short-shorts.

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Miscellaneous

Perfect Pairs by Hulton Getty -- a little hardcover book full of pictures of famous movie pairs, with info on the movies the pics come from and famous quotes about love.

The Portable Irish Reader edited by Diarmuid Russell -- 1946 hardcover book full of Irish letters, essays, speeches, plays, stories, poems, and more.

Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill -- a fun book, but I realized that I probably won't want to read it again, and I'm really trying not to keep books I won't re-read or refer to a lot.

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That's all!  And that's enough, right?