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  Slippery Fish Island Official Book Swap Thread!!!

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  So, I thought it would be fun (and economical) to swap books. I know I have a few books I’ve read and wouldn’t mind passing on to others, in exchange for something I haven’t yet read. This is how it’s going to work:
  
  1. Those interested will set up their own response to this topic, entitled something like: Halo’s Books for Swap. In your response, list as many or as few books that you have in your possession that you would like to trade. Instead of responding to each thread or adding on, making this thread a monster and difficult to track, you can just edit your own reply to add or delete books.
  
  2. You can peruse everyone’s threads at your leisure. If and when you see a book you’d like to trade, send that person either a personal message or a note on their wall indicating you’d like to make a trade. That person will peruse your books and if they see something they’d like, they will respond in kind.
  
  3. Swap addresses via personal message (or however you’d like) and pop those books in the mail. Jerry tells me that the US postal service has something called ‘media mail’, and you simply tell them that you’re mailing a book at the post office and you get a cheaper rate.
  
  
  I’m also told that owners of certain types of ereaders can also swap books electronically? That’s also and option- if you have that type of ereader simply indicated it in your post. You never know!

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  Halo (edited)

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  Halo’s Book Swap Thread:

  Here are some books that I’m willing to part with and they are all paperbacks- some trade copies.

  1. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

  2. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

  3. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

  4. The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

  5. Antony & Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough

  6. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

  7. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler

  8. Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill

  9. While I Was Gone by Sue Miller

  10. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

  11. Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella

  12. Back Roads by Tawni O’Dell

  13. She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

  14. The Scapegoat by Daphne DuMaurier

  15. Doc by Mary Doria Russell (hard cover)

  16. The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve

  17. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

  18. A Widow for One Year by John Irving.

  19. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

  20. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon

  Coming soon: Dogs of Babel (I’m reading this right now- it’s pretty good!)

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  mark s 

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  Great idea....I'll have to make a list when I get home:)

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    Halo 

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    Yay!! I can swap with someone :) I’ll add more books!

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  mark s 

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  1. Frank Herbert's "White Plague"
  2. Deathworld by Harry Harrison
  3. Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
  4. The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
  5. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  6. Mindswap by Robert Sheckley
  7. Candide, Zadig, and selected stories by Voltaire
  8. Necromancer by Gordon R Dickson
  9. the Innocent Mage and the Awakened Mage by Karen Miller

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  Eve (edited)

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  1. Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen

  2. (out)

  3. (out)

  4. Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman

  5. The Solitude of Thomas Cave by Georgina Harding

  6. The Last Summer of You and Me by Ann Brasheres

  7. (You snooze, you lose ha ha)

  8. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

  9. The Known World by Edward P. Jones

  10. Atonement by Ian McEwan

  11. You're a Horrible Person but I Like You - The Believer Book of Advice

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  Eve 

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  This is a sad and lonely book swap. 5 replies since Feb. Lol

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  mark s 

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  no one wants to give up ANY books...even the bad ones :D

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    Halo 

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    Eve and I swapped some books! We did! We did!

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  Foghorn Leghorn 

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  Such a sad, sad thread.

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    Halo 

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    Sad and lonely. What bunch of miserly book lovers we have here. Nobody wants to share!

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    Foghorn Leghorn 

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    Stingy is the word, Halo!
    Do you want my Doc? It is in good condition.

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    Erika M 

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    Should you really be asking such things here?!

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    Halo 

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    hahaha!

    That’s kind of you Foggie- but I have my own Doc, and it’s in Great condition :)

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  jkdavies 

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  I am basically not willing to part with books... unless they are utter crap... in which case it seems a little churlish to force them onto fellow Islanders...

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    Marguerite M 

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    what you call crap another might call a treasure :)

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  Marguerite M 

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  Books I would be willing to mail to someone:

  The Handmaids Tale by Margret Atwood
  Political Grace by Peggy Noonan (Hardcover, but little)
  Big Russ and me by Tim Russert (Hardcover)
  The Captive by Victory Holt
  Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
  The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks

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  Jerry M 

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  Ok, I just went to the bookstore and bought a book I already had.

  Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. A SF work. It's a SF Masterworks trade pb. (I bought it because I thought I had Creatures of Light and Darkness)

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    mark s 

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    I um...own it in hardback...

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    Foghorn Leghorn 

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    It pays to print out a list of the books you have.

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    Jerry M 

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    I do have a printout but Zelazny wasn't on there. Wasn't the brightest moment there, and I passed up a lot of other good choices as well.

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