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The re-organizing of the disaster zone (AKA my bookshelves/library) continues apace. In the process I have found some things I cannot even fathom WHY I kept through all my moves, let alone HOW.

My example: A Japanese graphic novel, written all in Kanji, from the 1980s, that I got sent by my Japanese penpal when I was ... uh let's just skip past how old I was shall we ... anyway, that is my weirdest find so far. It says something like issue one/number 1 on it, so IDEK if I'm sitting on some, like, sooper-dooper rare anime that can't be found anywhere anymore and it's sitting on a dusty bookshelf in North America, or if it's not even worth 2 yen or whatever LOL.

What's the strangest find you've made, when searching/organizing your bookshelves, F!S?

A book, which is about the same size as my "Collected Works of Shakespeare", however, it's all in free verse poetry, and is a long, long, diatribe of some woman's attempt to find her soulmate.

Without any of the pithy, witty, Shakespearian wordplay.

I think I literally found it outside of a bookstore one night, and figured no book should be left alone, and brought it home.

"no book should be left alone"

I like you. nonnie. :-)

Ooh, I totally have one! Mine is Communism: Threat to Freedom (1962), which I totally picked up based on the title and cover in the hopes it would be a sensationalistic diatribe worthy of some laughs.

Can't you see why? This is an 80-page booklet published by the National Catholic Welfare Conference's Department of Social Action*. You can read the whole thing on archive.org, where they say, "Despite its title, actually a very well rounded and sober discussion of communism, domestic extremism, McCarthyism and civil rights." Yep. It's kind of interesting as a Cold War artifact and it has a lot of reasonable points for its time.

*This makes a lot more sense when you know where I found it- in the withdrawn books cart of my Catholic high school's library. It doesn't explain why I've held onto it for around 5-6 years. But I found a lot of other really great books on that withdrawn books cart- a few good novels, a little-known William Inge play, and a copy of the play Amadeus with a busted spine (that the librarian specifically told me was there because she knew I love plays <3).

ahahahahaha that's great, ginainthekingsroad!

I have found more than a few library cast-offs that have made their way into my "collection" as I make my way through it. Yours wins the thread, so far!

Either that someone had stolen my copy of the Narnia series [the books I learned to read on ;A;], or that I'd ended up with a [now ex-]friend's copy of A Lesson Before Dying.

D-: Neither is a very good outcome, is it?

I keep meaning to reread my HC Narnia collection. Then I remember that Lewis really really pushes my berserk buttons, sometimes, and I pick something else up instead.

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I keep finding my mom's right-wing political/religious whackbag books. I wish she'd stop hiding them there.

This actually made me laugh, sorry. ^^;;

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...is she...IDK hiding them from your dad? Hoping you'll convert? What? LOL sorry I'm with the anon below, that's actually kind of hilar.

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A 1984 edition of Megatrends by John Naisbitt.

I was wandering around my univeristy, saw a stand with free books, shrugged, and grabbed this one. I don't know why. I guess it's kind of interesting because it's a look at what people in the 80s thought would be some societal trends in the future.

Also a drunk person scribbled something about a pub on page 1.

The other book is a 1973 edition of I'm OK - You're OK by Thomas Harris. It was $2 in a second-hand store so I bought it on impulse. But I'm a psych student, so I guess it's kinda relevant.

Ha, your second find made me think of Stuart Smalley! (The "self-help guy" parody on SNL back in the day.)

http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/648701.html?thread=567732989#cmt567732989

WAHHHAAHAHAHAHAA I love heckling the hell outta Dyer whenever the local PBS runs his droning, monotonic "manifest your happy and all will be true" nonsense.

Yep, AY wins the thread!

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Recently, 'Cat People: An Erotic Novel'. However, a few months ago I made this whining post on facebook when I couldn't find our copy of 'Northanger Abbey':

"A random sample of what I have recently found in the same general vicinity in our loosely 'organised' bookcases: 'Earthworms for Pleasure and Profit', 'Trout Fishing in America', 'Colloquial Arabic', 'Cast Iron Decoration', 'Country Cooking Around the World', 'The German-English Science Dictionary', 'The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa', multiple copies of 'Just So Stories', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'The Origin of Species', so many random Joseph Conrad novels that none of us remember owning, 3/4 of the books I bought new copies of for my English courses, several variations on the themes 'Every Australian Bird/Insect Illustrated', 'Historic Homesteads of Australia' and 'What Sea Shell/Wild Flower is That?', and, my personal favourite, 8 (!) volumes of the Australian Commonwealth Statutory Rules."

Everyday is a adventure in our bookcases!

...You guys really like the Statutory Rules it sounds like. :P

....I am picturing survivalists, or rural dwellers.....either way I am jealous of your Bird/Insects book!

A book on cats I vaguely recall getting at a seconhand store because someone had dumped a cat on me and my friends and I knew shitall about cats. It's really really old, apparently someone's christmas present in 19-fucking-81 going by the (vague) passive aggressive note written in the front cover.

Also I have all the Dune's. Go figure

English Recipes and Others, published 1967 in Britain. How the fuck it ended up in Australia in pretty good condition, I'm not sure.

But it's some ladies compilation of how to cook FUCKING EVERYTHING including family recipes, recipes lifted from other books (and properly cited!) like 'A New System of Domestic Cookery' by Mrs Rundell 1806

So pretty cool.

That sounds really handy to have around. Neat!

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It's not weird to me, but some people have found it weird that I have at least 10 copies of Cyrano de Bergerac. (original French, Hooker translation, Burgess translation, shitty translation, Hall translation, and 5 spare copies of the Hooker translation so I can give them to people)

Cat People anon from above here, and that sounds pretty normal to me!

Narnia anon

That doesn't sound like something I'd do, but it's not that crazy.

...But why keep a shitty translation?

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I have a smutty doujinshi that I never ordered... it just turned up on the porch one day and no one could remember buying/bidding for it. (Or at least, no one will admit to buying/bidding for it.)

Once when I was wandering the bookshelves at a thrift shop, I came upon a novel about a man who had been turned into a giant boob. ....Yeah.

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