Buffy ,'Potential'
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."
The last picture, of the Trinity College library, is AMAZING in the book. It's so gorgeous, it makes me want to cry. And lick the picture.
I am glad you said this, because I was beginning to think I was the only one who had tear welling from looking at the beautiful libraries.
I just started In Cold Blood. Dear gods Capote is a beautiful writer. It reads like poetry and has an eloquence that I've not read in a very long time. It pulled me in right off and his details and his passion for the story come through immediately. I can picture in my head exactly what Mr. Clutter looked like.
And I'm only on page 15!!
Also we picked up Anansi Boys at B&N the other day. Joe showed me the book (regular sized paperback) and I looked at it and frowned. He asked what was wrong as I whined, "But it doesn't match American Gods. It's too small."
He laughed and laughed at me.
I totally get you, Aimee. I was thrilled to see that I could get Anansi Boys to match my (regular sized) American Gods.
The first book I buy by an author determines the format in which all their other books will be purchased, for that very reason. Otherwise they can't live together on the shelf, and what good is that?
See, and that's where Nora Roberts pissed me off. I have half of the "In Death..." series in paperback and the other half in hardcover. Now, I know that I could have just waited for the paperbacks to come out and not bought the hardcovers. But, yeah, right. I love Eve and Roarke and I didn't WANT to wait.
The first book I buy by an author determines the format in which all their other books will be purchased, for that very reason.
Whew. I only match within series.
I suddenly feel like my bookshelves have run amuck.
I only match within series, too. But I also love hardcover books, so sometimes when I have a favorite novel in a worn-out mass market or trade edition, and I spot a used hardcover in good shape (for a good price) I'll pick it up.
I understand the feeling, Lee. Match? Books are supposed to match?
I feel lucky if I manage to get all the books by one author in one place.