 Okay, I should have done this a week ago. This is my wrap up for November 2015 and A lot of books to talk about here as you can see first of all, there's this strange library by Haruki Murakami I saw this mentioned by the the SFF Booktube Awards as a contender for best short work So I ordered a copy it has this funny little hardcover with this Authentic library card slot here. It was just cute. The book is not good though. I may talk about it later This is a volume 2 of the complete stories of Theodore Sturgeon I don't believe I took a picture of this when it came in Like I said when I got volume 1 last time there's like 13 or 14 volumes all this size and I may try to collect them as the months go by this Big batch of books here. I got all at one time just a few days ago If you're watching the tumbler you saw me post this picture This is from a local bookstore that's on the other side of town near where I used to live about 10 years ago And I don't think I'd visited this store in 10 years It's a combination bookstore antique store and everything is all just piled in on top of everything else in the years That I've not visited it's gotten much more cluttered. You couldn't walk down the aisles I asked the lady where's the science fiction and she told me I had to squeeze past this this one box Go down this one aisle and then turn left and loop back around toward the front Into a dead end where there was some some science fiction and fantasy and I there wasn't much there But I bought half of what was there this big book here The epoch edited by Roger L. Wood and Robert Silverberg Five dollars yours best SF volume nine Edited by David G. Hartwell. I like him as an editor. I like this series of his She had it priced at 15, but she sold it to me for five A couple of volumes of annual world's best SF edited by Donald Walheim, I like this series. I have a couple of these But obviously I could use more these are short story anthologies by the way Universe 5 is another anthology series edited by Terry Carr. This is from the from the 80s, I think It's another anthology series. I like couple of Mars novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs and hardback With the dust cover and two Clifford D. Simac novels or short novels, I guess you call them. They're not they're not big Mastodonia is one that I don't think I've read whenever people talk about Simac. They always mention this So I'll be reading it now. This is one the cover looks awfully familiar to me. It's possible. I might have read it Sometime in the distant past, but we'll see it's certainly an interesting cover Simac wrote an awful lot She also had this Best from the rest of the world European science fiction. I took one look at this Table of contents here and saw a whole bunch of names. I don't recognize so I immediately bought it and Another anthology partners in wonder look at this list of names Harlan Ellison a Ivan vote theater Sturgeon Zalasny Boudras Robert Sheckley and it says nine more wild talents This is the kind of old anthology one-off anthology that I love And it's the kind of thing that science fiction fans should look for at old bookstores And it's the kind of bookstore that I'm talking about is the kind of bookstore you should find in your city or your neighborhood They're there. They are there They're like old magic shops They're sandwiched between other things like a laundromat or an antique store or something And they have piles and piles and piles of books that nobody's looking through And you need to find them. They're there. They're in your neighborhood. I know they are I also Got volumes two and three of saga the The graphic novel series I liked part one I mentioned it last time And I like two and three as well. I Both of these I got from eBay with including posters. They were both right about ten dollars, which is a good price. I haven't been able to find Volume two of wicked and the divine for a price like that the cover prices on these graphic novels are hideous They're like fifteen dollars and people Aren't necessarily willing to let them go for much less than cover price Anyway, I like these two volumes. They were both of these were packed in ways that were really Inappropriate I did that video a couple of months ago about how not to ship how not to pack a book for shipping And these would have been examples you can see you might be able to see some damage along the top edge of this book where the The packing tape was actually touching the top edge of the book because the cardboard didn't cover the book Really sloppy. I also read this the Captain Marvel I had bought this last time and I said I was going to read it and I did read it and I did not like it I Pretty much didn't like anything about it. This is an example, which I ran it about Some time ago an example of unnecessary time travel. I didn't like the writing. I didn't like the art Yeah, I just didn't like it all around And here's something else I got Off of eBay just a few days ago the Gilda Radner cutout book. It's a paper doll book This is a book that I had many years ago. I had it for years and years and here's the Little pop out Gilda Radner figure. It's not popped out. It's of course not in perfect condition But it's all intact. Nothing's cut out. I Had this when I was in high school or college and I've had it for years and years I've always kept it on my shelf and This is one of those things that disappeared. I always kept it right next to my Donna Reed paper dolls Donna Reed is still on the shelf, but Gilda Radner was gone for some reason and I can't imagine that I would have sold sold it or given it away. It's not worth anything I think I paid four dollars for it. Anyway, I just wanted to show you that Before I forget I am most of the way through splendor of the mind's eye the the Star Wars book It's not a long book, but it's It's taking me a while because it's really bad It reads like fanfiction written by a teenager I'll do I'll do a special review of this and You will you will laugh at what I have to say about it I also bought some ebooks online and I'll talk about those when I I'll do a special about where to buy books and I'll see you next review You can support 30 second sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron There's a link in the description below and visit the 30 second sci-fi tumbler That's my headquarters in addition to my videos. 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