I wonder if she had had more time to ruminate if the book wouldn't have been better.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
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."
sumi - Jan 31, 2014 5:10:56 am PST #22014 of 28355
Art Crawl!!!
meara - Jan 31, 2014 8:39:01 am PST #22015 of 28355
OK, so msbelle back in... November? December? helped me go through a lot of books and decide if I really needed them. I had too many books (and nowadays have many of them as ebooks).
But now I have piles and piles (literally--they've been on the floor of the guest room since then) that I don't know what to do with. I suspect they're not really worth much, even though there's lots of them--none of them are especially rare or anything. They're just a lot of scifi, fantasy, and a few thriller/romances. Mostly paperback, a few hardback. So...what do I do with them? I hesitate to donate them to Goodwill or wherever, just because I feel like there's got to be a better solution. As a kid/teenager I would've KILLED to get a huge number of books like this, but I don't think I know any locally who would want them? (And these days they can get them electronically, right?)
WindSparrow - Jan 31, 2014 8:41:35 am PST #22016 of 28355
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Call and ask schools or libraries if they need them?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2014 8:43:08 am PST #22017 of 28355
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Or a senior center? Or a prison? Anywhere people spend a lot of unscheduled time, really....
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 8:43:35 am PST #22018 of 28355
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Better than Goodwill be a Friends of the Library book sale. Much better chance of them finding a good home.
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 8:44:39 am PST #22019 of 28355
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
"Re: Jesse's suggestion. Google "books for prisoners"
-t - Jan 31, 2014 8:46:06 am PST #22020 of 28355
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Half-price books?
meara - Jan 31, 2014 9:00:35 am PST #22021 of 28355
Hmm, looks like there is a "Books to Prisoners" group in Seattle, but they want you to donate $35 per box of books because they ship them to prisoners and say that costs $70 a box. Um, ok. Found an article on another local group, but not sure if they take books, so I emailed them. I figure for me it would be seriously cruel and unusual punishment to lock me up without books, so...yeah.
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:09:03 am PST #22022 of 28355
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, that $35 fee is kinda wtf.
The only problem with half-price books is the likelihood of leaving with as many books as you arrive with.
Typo Boy - Jan 31, 2014 9:11:23 am PST #22023 of 28355
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Books to Prisoners Olympia does not charge to accept donations BTW, so the Seattle chapter is being "special".