Tuesday Teasers and Things

A little tease from what I've been reading lately:

I booted up the computer. As always, I checked my e-mail first. E-mail is a procrastinator's dream come true. [excerpt from Murder Takes the Cake by Gayle Trent]

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For this week's Tuesday Thingers, Marie asks

Work multiples. Do you own multiple copies of any books? Which ones? Why? Can you share your list?

I evidently have 14 multiple copies. Some for good reason. At least to my husband and me.

I have both a paperback and hardback copy of Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian. I originally bought a copy of the hardback but was not able to get to it right away. By the time I was ready to read the tome, it seemed more practical to carry around a paperback version of the book because of its size. Considering how much I loved the book, it proved to be worth the investment.

The Dragonbone Chair and The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams are other cases of having one copy in hardback and another in paperback. My husband read the paperback copies, but wanted to add the hardback editions to his collection of the series.

This also holds true for The Princes Bride by William Goldman. Although, in this case, the paperback is the movie cover which makes both my husband and I cringe, while the hardback is a more traditional cover and includes extras that were not included in the paperback edition.

I have two copies of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, one paperback and one hardback, because my husband had loaned out the hardback copy to his parents around the time I decided I also wanted to read it (I wanted to read it before seeing the movie), I ended up picking up a paperback version to read in the meantime.

In the instance of both Private Wars and A Gentleman's Game by Greg Rucka, we have two copies of each book because one is an advanced reader's copy while the other is the final product. We enjoyed the books enough to want to own the published books.

The same goes for Karen E. Olson's Dead of the Day novel. One copy is an ARC while the other is a published copy.

My library includes two copies of Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland because one is the Golden Anniversary Special while the other is an older edition. The anniversary edition includes an audio CD and an extra chapter not included in the original.

There are two copies of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle on the shelf because my husband's original copy is well loved and worn. He wanted a newer copy to have handy in case he wanted to read it again.

Then there are the unintended duplicates:

For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George - I have an older copy from my college days and a newer one that came in an E-Bay book lot I ordered during my E-Bay phase.

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun were both gifts to my husband from my mother, one a paperback and the other a hardback version. I don't think she realized she had already given him one before giving him the other.

Finally, I have two copies of Cat Among Pigeons as well as Crooked House, both by Agatha Christie. About a year ago, I was given a bag of Agatha Christie books that a friend of my mother's no longer wanted. Included in the bag were the duplicate copies.

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With a little help from my husband, three names were chosen at random for a little 500 post anniversary surprise. The giveaway winners are:

Nikki of Keep This On the DL
Yvonne of Socrates' Book Reviews
Matt of A Guy's Moleskin Notebook

Congratulations! If the winners could please send me an e-mail (you can find a link to my e-mail address on my profile page), I will tell you what you have won. Thank you to everyone for participating!