meara is me WRT Kate Elliott. I've tried her fantasy series, but they're too convoluted and involved even for my taste. I think of her books every time I'm tempted to add yet another POV character or subplot to my WIP....
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'War Stories'
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."
Susan W. - Apr 12, 2008 8:49:37 am PDT #5459 of 28344
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Scrappy - Apr 12, 2008 9:34:57 am PDT #5460 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
As the daughter of a used bookstore owner, I say get rid of it. There will be someone out there who likes it, and books should be where they will be loved.
Scrappy - Apr 12, 2008 9:35:15 am PDT #5461 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Amy - Apr 12, 2008 9:51:32 am PDT #5462 of 28344
Because books.
I'm of the all-one-type school. All hardcovers, or all trades, or all mass-markets, whichever. I haunt book sales and used book stores to find the right editions because ... I'm a little obsessed.
I don't need to keep all books by a specific author, though, if there's something I don't like. Unless, like others have said, it's part of a series, and then I get a weird completist thing going on.
I also almost always look for hardcovers of books I really love at sales.
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 9:55:08 am PDT #5463 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I dislike hardcovers immensely. There has to be a really compelling reason for me to consider buying one, even at a sale.
Amy - Apr 12, 2008 9:58:03 am PDT #5464 of 28344
Because books.
Really? I know they take up more room, but they seem so much more ... permanent and long-wearing.
brenda m - Apr 12, 2008 10:01:59 am PDT #5465 of 28344
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, but they're so much more uncomfortable to read and carry around. I do like trades, though, as a sort of more substantial seeming happy medium.
Dana - Apr 12, 2008 10:34:32 am PDT #5466 of 28344
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hardcovers don't fit in a purse, and it's hard to take three hardcovers with you for a weekend trip.
sj - Apr 12, 2008 10:39:59 am PDT #5467 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
There were two books in question and I decided to get rid of one and keep the other. Thanks for helping me make the decision!
I have another sort of odd book question. Does anyone have an absolute favorite bookcase for storing mass market paperbacks, so that they can be stacked on their sides to maximize space?
Atropa - Apr 12, 2008 10:59:27 am PDT #5468 of 28344
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm of the all-one-type school. All hardcovers, or all trades, or all mass-markets, whichever.
See, I don't care. Of course, I have a different problem, which is if I find a different edition of one of my favorite books, I feel compelled to own it. Let us not speak of how many different versions of Something Wicked This Way Comes are sitting on my bookshelves. Let's just say that every time I go to Powell's, I go to the rare book room to ogle the 1st edition hardback of Dark Carnival (the original title of SWTWC). Someday it will be mine. Someday.