I'ma go to hell.

I'll be there, too, holding my copy of Lord of the Flies and All Quiet on the Western Front. The second one I read for a US History assignment and kept forgetting to return.

I'ma go to hell.

Yeah, save me a seat on that bus, too. My first copy of Heartbreak Hotel came from the high school library. When that got lost, my second copy came from Florida State's library.

What? It had last been checked out something like ten years before I checked it out. I seriously doubt they're missing it to this day.

I seriously doubt they're missing it to this day.

very true.

Two summers ago I found books up in the stacks at the Strozer that were marked "Florida Girls College" and hadn't been checked out since 1920. I felt like swiping a few of them just to give them a change of scenery and because they really looked interesting.

Erin, I would recommend not reading the final book of that trilogy. I'm not sure Meredith Ann Pierce can write trilogies. I tend to love the first book, think the second is okay, and end up going WTF? at the third.

Interesting tidbit about Dark Angel gleaned from wikipedia:

Published in 1982, The Darkangel featured a story that Pierce claims came to her all at once while she read the account of a dream recounted to Carl Jung,

Two summers ago I found books up in the stacks at the Strozer that were marked "Florida Girls College" and hadn't been checked out since 1920. I felt like swiping a few of them just to give them a change of scenery and because they really looked interesting.

BWAH!!!! Setting up the Old Books Home

John Jakes

Ooh, I'd forgotten all about John Jakes! I used to glom those, too. I was a sucker for historical sagas--Belva Plain, Alexandra Ripley, Celeste de Blasis.

I had an event over on main campus today which ended late enough I could reasonably say there was no point in going back to the hospital...so naturally I went to the library to get some research materials for the WIP. All of which I intend to return eventually, though I do love the long checkout periods and near-infinite renewals at a university library.

And I know I've mentioned this before, but is there anything in the world that smells as wonderful as the stacks of a university library, that old book scent?

And I know I've mentioned this before, but is there anything in the world that smells as wonderful as the stacks of a university library, that old book scent?

there are very few things, indeed.

I've been at work so much the past few days, I missed all the fun conversation!

Barb, I'm still not sure what you mean by authorial intrusion in Time Traveler's Wife -- are you referring to what you feel is her being pleased at her own cleverness?

I sort of handwaved what you thought of as her breaking the rules of her own universe, because I had a hard time figuring out how the time travel worked in the first place (so sue me -- Terminator boggled me for a while), so that didn't really bug. I loved it so much! I'm bummed you didn't.

I picked up Vampire Kisses on Jilli's rec rather than New Moon, but what cracks me up is a girl at work who's about twenty. Her friends were pestering her to read the books because they're dying to see the movie, so she read the first one (and agreed that the first, like, two-thirds of the book are incredibly boring), but went out and bought the second one anyway! She's laughing at herself, because she suddenly gets all the "Edward! Bella!" talk.

Fay, I just got Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely, too, and I'm dying to read Evernight. I still have Holly Black's Tithe to dig into, too. Yay good YA!

At fourteen I was gobbling up old books of my mom's mostly -- Phyllis Whitney and Stephen King and family sagas by Belva Plain. I discovered Anne Rivers Siddons shortly after that, Barb -- I must have read Fox's Earth a hundred times. I read some YA in there, too, but I had read a lot of that (like Lisa, Bright and Dark and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden) in fifth and sixth grade.

Yeah, Amy, the sounding clever with herself really seemed to come through and bug me.

And the time travel mechanics and her rules for it drove me batshit, but then again, I'm Virgo Girl, hear me analyze. *g*

By the by, you did know that Wicked Lovely won the YA RITA, right?