Happy Thursday, everyone! The HVAC is finally fixed in our house (sleeping in high humidity in the '80s sucks) and we've been home from our Ohio/Michigan trip, so let's look at some of the acquisitions I found at thrift stores.
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I've always been a huge fan of Madeline L'Engle's Murray Family novels, starting with A Wrinkle In Time. I have another edition of this around somewhere, but I needed to grab this for this fantastic cover that shows a cherubim named Proginoskes that is their to help Meg and her brother Charles Wallace deal with an evil that is infecting people around them through their mitochondria. (Trust me, it makes sense in the novel.). This isn't my favorite of the various Murray novels, but it's an important one for how Meg is growing up.
Amusingly, this edition has ads in the back for various S.E. Hinton novels and The Chocolate War, which are appropriate for the same age group as reading L'Engle, but kind of vastly different things. Love the idea of some 13-year-old picking those up after this and learning some other shit.
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I have a weird love for movie novelizations and also for movie tie-in covers, and I was really pleased to discover this one. I'm a huge fan of this movie from 1976, early Jodie Foster and she's a damn delight in it, as is Barbara Harris. (I've somehow never seen the Lohan and Curtis version from the '90s, which apparently has a lot of fans). I did read this novel back when I was a kid and I might read it again.
Mary Rodgers, who only passed away in 2014, is an interesting figure to me. She was the daughter of Broadway god Richard Rogers and she ended up writing musicals as well and is probably best remembered for Once Upon A Mattress as well as contributing songs to the Marlo Thomas album Free To Be You And Me (an album that somehow completely missed me as a kid, which is weird since being born in 1973 this should have been right up my alley). I'm also kind of curious about a revue she did, The Mad Show, based on stories from that magazine and that apparently has a parody of "The Girl From Ipanema" written by Stephen Sondheim under a pseudonym.
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I have a lot of Harlan Ellison, but I was surprised to find that I don't have this one. A lot of stories I'm unfamiliar with and a great 1970s whackadoo cover? Why yes, thank you.
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I know Mike Resnick mostly for his novels and short stories centered around the Kikuyu people of Kenya (which I think are quite well done) but I'm admittedly curious to find he also wrote a ton of erotic fiction under various pseudonyms. This appears to have always been published under his own name, a tale of a pleasure spaceship/cruise ship where various plots are going on to undermine the ship. Hopefully, this is just a fun romp and not when Heinlein decided to tackle sex, which always feels kind of creepy and gross.
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Look, this is absolutely a blind buy for me based solely on the cover. It's wonderfully goofy.
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