If you have a Barnes and Noble member card you can get the complete Harry Potter books boxed set from the folio society for $14.95. link
ETA: Nevermind it is one of those things where you have to promise to order other books in the future.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sj - Nov 04, 2009 10:15:12 am PST #10336 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Dana - Nov 04, 2009 4:46:23 pm PST #10337 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I am having trouble getting into "The Yiddish Policeman's Union." It's not that I dislike it, but I just have no momentum. I've already renewed it at the library once. Should I keep going or give up?
Kat - Nov 04, 2009 5:08:35 pm PST #10338 of 28370
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Dana, I liked it somewhat. But if you aren't making forward progress and you are on week 5, then by all means, cut yourself loose. Life is too short to read mediocre books.
-t - Nov 04, 2009 5:38:03 pm PST #10339 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I liked it, probably my favorite Chabon, but it's not like it suddenly gets more interesting partway through. It's pretty consistent. So if you haven't gotten into it, it may not be for you.
Jessica - Nov 05, 2009 6:50:38 am PST #10340 of 28370
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In a move guaranteed to piss off librarians and bookstore employees everywhere, Nov 18th is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day:
Join us this November in a new and unique celebration of science fiction and fantasy literature. Many books from our fine genre are regularly placed in the wrong section of bookstores. This not only hides the books from us, but it prevents readers of those books from discovering the rich tradition to which they belong.
On November 18th that changes. We will go to bookstores around the world and move science fiction and fantasy books from wherever they might be to their proper place in the “Science Fiction” section. We hope that this quiet act of protest will raise awareness of this problem and inspire new readers to explore our thought-provoking genre.
sj - Nov 05, 2009 6:58:48 am PST #10341 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
In a move guaranteed to piss off librarians and bookstore employees everywhere, Nov 18th is International Science Fiction Reshelving Day:
Oh, dear. That really would be a nightmare for the poor employees if people actually do it.
Barb - Nov 05, 2009 6:48:14 pm PST #10342 of 28370
“Not dead yet!”
And it continues...
Sherri Browning-Erwin and Charlotte Bronte's JANE SLAYRE, a paranormal retelling of "Jane Eyre," in which Jane is a vampyre slayer and Rochester's wife is a werewolf, to Jennifer Heddle at Gallery, at auction, for publication Spring 2010, by Stephany Evans at FinePrint Literary Management (World English).
Polter-Cow - Nov 05, 2009 6:52:20 pm PST #10343 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I just read that there's going to be a prequel to P&P&Z, as well as maybe a sequel.
megan walker - Nov 05, 2009 7:55:18 pm PST #10344 of 28370
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
::cries::
Amy - Nov 09, 2009 6:41:40 pm PST #10345 of 28370
Because books.