until they look at the bill ... then they like you

Nope. They still hate me. At least the guys doing the packing and actual moving and getting paid whatever shitty hourly wage they're getting.

Hee. My movers liked the fact that I use one standard sized box for everything (got the boxes from Waldenbooks or Borders--they just toss them out otherwise), so they were able to stack things up and take them on their backs. (It's really incredible seeing these guys haul off three big boxes full of books on their back with just a long strip of fabric to carry them.)

When I move, I pack up all of my books first--that takes care of about 1/4 of my packing time, and all the boxes stacked up makes it look like I've done a lot right away. Also, working in bookstores means I've gotten really good at getting as many books possible in each box, so that way they don't crumple when they have three boxes piled on top of them.

Ha ha. My co-worker was reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and she thought it was okay, not that great, but it made her want to read Pride and Prejudice because she wanted to see how the story worked without zombies. Right now, she can't see how it would. Heh.

Just got home from the grocery store and I looked at the book covers based on the earlier conversation here. The trend I saw on more than a few books was seeing a picture of a woman, including part of her face, but cropped just below the eyes. I think that is even more disturbing than chopping them at the neck.

Yeah, I'm going to be doing a fairly massive book-culling if we're going to be looking at moving. The cookbooks will definitely be thinned and the fiction as well.

DIBS! I CALL DIBS!!

I LOVE Jennifer Crusie and wish she had new stuff out. I should go dig up "Fast Women" or "Bet Me" and re-read them. I love those two the most.

"Faking It" is my favorite, possibly because it was the first one I read, and things like that always stick with me. But I love "Bet Me" and "Welcome to Temptation" too.

I actually love Tell Me Lies maybe the most, but that was my first. Bet Me or Fast Women would be next.

Crusie was my first breath of fresh air after a diet almost composed entirely of Nora Roberts, LaVyrle Spencer, and People magazine. I read it three times in a row and then ran out and bought everything else.

Strangely, Faking It is my least favorite. I like Crazy in Love more, even.

And her old reprints are good fun, too.

I never could get through the first collaboration with Bob Whoever, though.

I thought my first was Welcome to Temptation, and then I discovered I had one of her old category romances called Charlie All Night.