Booksellers Brace for ‘Mockingjay’ Landing [link]
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Ginger - Aug 24, 2010 9:00:09 am PDT #12186 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Polter-Cow - Aug 24, 2010 9:04:24 am PDT #12187 of 28333
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
This is really confusing because I saw copies of Mockingjay in Borderlands on Saturday.
I probably won't get around to reading the series until October, when I hope the holds free up at the library.
Ginger - Aug 24, 2010 9:05:59 am PDT #12188 of 28333
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
As of Friday, Target had a big sign for Mockingjay, but no books.
megan walker - Aug 24, 2010 9:06:49 am PDT #12189 of 28333
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My YA friend in Seattle said there were no copies at the bookstore this morning.
The SF library is showing all their copies as only "ordered", which worries me, but I don't know when they ususally get copies in relation to the release date.
Steph L. - Aug 24, 2010 9:09:24 am PDT #12190 of 28333
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The Cincy library does a program called On the Same Page (or something like that), in which people are encouraged to read the same book, and have discussions about it, etc. So to pimp that program, the library system has a ton of copies of the given books. Usually there is a YA book and an adult book, but last year for both groups it was The Hunger Games. So I'm guessing that simply based on the interest that program created, they'll need to have ordered a shitload of copies of Mockingjay.
(And I just wish I knew where I was on the waiting list!)
Kat - Aug 24, 2010 10:09:05 am PDT #12191 of 28333
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I bought my copy of Mockingjay, so it's in hand and I can read it!!
Kat - Aug 24, 2010 10:09:23 am PDT #12192 of 28333
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
(but I won't as I'm in the middle of Parrot and Olivier and I'd like to finish that first -- see my self control?)
sumi - Aug 24, 2010 10:26:35 am PDT #12193 of 28333
Art Crawl!!!
Your self control is stunning.
Kathy A - Aug 24, 2010 2:29:57 pm PDT #12194 of 28333
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Just placed a big order with Amazon (dvds) and had to pick up a copy of Watership Down for my collection. I reread it four years ago after not reading it since 8th grade, and have been wanting to read it again.
Also looked to see if a romance series I've been reading for several years (Robin D. Owens Celta series) had its annual update yet, and since it was released a few weeks ago I was able to add it to my order. Yay! I don't read too many romances anymore, but Owens and Nora Roberts (just her trilogies/quartets) are always on my to-buy list, as is Loretta Chase (who publishes all too rarely).
meara - Aug 24, 2010 5:33:13 pm PDT #12195 of 28333
Heh. I flew to Hawaii today for work, and was annoyed I couldn't read Mockingjay on the plane (left too early to buy a copy) so I stopped on my way to the hotel and bought it to read poolside. Just finished!! Will have to reread though, for more detail.
A little way in I was all "seriously? What?" and then it got better. And then it got worse. And them way better in the very hunger games fucked up way. I'm still not sure about the end of the ending (y'know, last page or so the stuff) but the main plottiness I was all "oooh".