Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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."
Oh dear god, Anathem is breaking my brain. I haven't read anything this dense in a long time.
I had to stop reading when Orolo got volcano-ed. In retrospect, it's not surprising, and had to happen, narratively, but it still freaked me out.
And -- is Laterre supposed to be Earth? Because the phonetic spelling of some of the words that Jules Verne uses are for French words. Not to mention his name being all literary and shit.
Not finished yet. They're just about to head into space.
Yes, Steph, that guy is from that place.
Yes, Steph, that guy is from that place.
Heh. Which is making me wonder WTF his food is. Not to mention what the people from Arbre look like, given how they describe *him* as looking almost like them but enough unlike to be disturbing. If he's from Earth, then he looks like, well, we do, which would mean that the Arbre folks must look slightly Uncanny Valley-esque. Hmm.
Not finished yet. They're just about to
Oooh. You're just starting the confusing part...
You're just starting the confusing part...
Oh, good. Because the rest of it has been so clear.
Clear as mud.
I really am enjoying it; but like I said, it's so freaking dense.
Oooh. You're just starting the confusing part...
Hee.
OMG I love that book so much.
Done.
My brain hurts.
My company's charitable committee is having its annual sale to benefit a charity--this year, it's books, so I volunteered to organize our donations. I love organizing books, so that was fun, but it had the side-benefit of having first (or maybe second, after whoever put them downstairs) look-see at the selection.
I picked out hardcovers of David Sedaris's Me Talk Pretty One Day and his latest, a paperback of Persepolis, and the latest Stephen King short story collection in paperback.
Score!!!
At the last booksale, I got Time Travelers Wife in hardcover, Ragtime, and Fatherland, for which I spent a grand total of $5. This year's batch will cost me $6.
We had our first day of the booksale yesterday, where I picked up two more books in hardcover: Live from New York (the oral history of SNL by Tom Shales) and Thunderstruck by Eric Larson, about the Dr. Crippen murder case, which is a book I'd been wanting to buy for several months now.
More books were brought in this morning, so I might just have to browse through and see if there's anything else good. I told my mom I'd see if there were any decent mysteries for her.