365 Days of Sales, Day 5

While this says Complete, it of course isn't, as the divine Kate Bush continues to produce new material to this day.  This however, was published in 1987, following the release of The Whole Story, and is a nice collection of material to that point.  Such material includes lyrics, melody lines and chords for the songs, and a biographical chronology of her career to that point.  There's also some black and white photos interspersed throughout the book.

As you can see from the photo, the book was crunched in the middle of the spine.  It didn't destroy the integrity of the book, as there are no loose pages, but this is not a pristine copy.  I'd call it Good, rather than even Very Good, but that's because I tend to grade tough.  It's not a collector's copy, but for the fan that wants a bit more info on Kate Bush, it's worthy of your time.

I'm asking $15.00 post paid.  Contact me via comments here or the other usual methods.

(You can also review other items for sale in this series of posts.)

365 Days of Sales, Day 4

Today's offering is from the collection of gaming materials that I have that I no longer have need of, including this setting book for Savage Worlds set on the high seas.  While it is possible that I might play Savage Worlds in the future (I'm currently playing a weekly game on Skype of Necessary Evil), I doubt I'll ever be the gamemaster again, and thus no longer need these setting books.

Written by Shane Lacy Hensley, the creator of Savage Worlds, and originally published at $29.95.  I'll send it to you for $20.00 post paid.  What a deal!

Year End Reading Lists

I didn't read much this year, but the things I did read I liked quite a lot: Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Seth Fletcher's Bottled Lightning: Super Batteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy.  I recommend both to you highly.

I did run across a nice list elsewhere full of wonderful recommendations for my friend Dwight.  Paul Tremblay, a writer his ownself, provides this list of full of true crime and dark stories that he liked this last year.

Religious Differences

The one course I really wished I had taken in college, and am quite surprised that I didn't given my long and chequered university career, is a comparative religion class. Now that I'm living in a country that is predominantly Islamic, this deficiency is even more apparent. We had a colleague early on who helped us navigate some of the early understanding of the differences between the religion we knew and that of our new friends and co-workers, but everyday something comes up and I wonder just how much I'm missing because, in this culture, I'm culturally offline.

This interview with Stephen Prothero about his new book, God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter, sounds like it might be helpful, a crash course in the major religions affecting the world today. I'm thinking this might be my first iBook purchase, whenever Apple brings that to the iPhone.