Kaylee ,'The Message'
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."
I just started rereading OotP, to prepare for the movie, and will reread HBP before Deathly Hallows comes out. All Harry all the time!
They stared at each other, lone-wolf amber mating briefly with angelic blue innocence.
Classic romance badness! I love it.
I'm browsing through the Guardian Unlimited reader's guide to independent bookshops. So many cool sounding stores! Like....
Barter Books, Alnwick
Alnwick Station, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2NP
01665604888
According to the bumf, Barter Books is one of Europe's biggest secondhand bookshops - but it's so much more. It's a library, a haven, a temple, a place of open fires, coffee, and creaking leather chairs - somewhere you can take your love of books and bask in its sunny glow for hours on end. It's also a disused railway station in Alnwick, Northumberland, and it's got 14 years of book-swapping history behind it. You can sell them volumes you've finished with, and you're almost guaranteed to leave with more. They won't always have the latest celebrity tell-all, but you stand a good chance of digging out unexpected treasures if you do the decent thing and give yourself a good couple of hours there. Original serialisations of Dickens, decrepit (but lovely) tomes on being a good 1890s wife, beginners' guides to undertaking, they're all there. - Georgina Turner
Weird moment this morning that I just thought to post about. The Weather Channel had a report on a dangerous caterpillar invasion in Bree, Belgium.
I'm sure the minds of all good LOTR fans are now in the same place my mind immediately went to.
I've spent all day reading Top 10 lists on Guardian Unlimited.
I think I need to get this book:
8. The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
A confused Morrissey fan writes letters to his hero and recalls a dismal childhood. I loved the moment when he picks up his guitar to entertain a coach load of shopkeepers. Shoplifters of the World Unite turns out to be the wrong choice.
David, have you read The City, Not Long After ? I read it this weekend and it seemed like something you'd like.
David, have you read The City, Not Long After ? I read it this weekend and it seemed like something you'd like.
Good call! It's a book I never have on my shelves because I'm always giving it away as a San Francisco memento to visiting friends.
This started back when my friend Ann was doing her residency in Minnepolis and I sent her War of the Oaks (which is set there). She returned the favor with The City Not Long After.
It's not always in print, so I tend to scan for it on the used shelves.
I think it's back in print--I saw a number of copies in the dealer's room at Wiscon last weekend.
I really need to read Pat Murphy's other stuff.
The copy I have was new - so I am certain it is back in print.
I have been playing with my new CueCat. Yay Library Thing, for it is the coolest thing ever. I think I will make a poster of my cover collection.
I've found the CueCat's scanning capabilities don't always recognize the 80's paperbacks I tried to feed it, but I figure the time I'll save cataloguing the newer stuff will make up for having to type in some of the titles.