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.
I've been writing little short bios for the HiLo website.
You can see my encomiums to Donovan and Denver Pyle here; and my valentines to Chester Brown, Eno and Yvonne Craig here.
Bonus bios by other writers: L. Frank Baum, Jonathan Richman, Kate Hepburn, Edward Lear.
Neil Gaiman has some advice for readers who have entitlement issues: [link]
From Sue's link in Movies, Top Ten Rascals in literature (a provisional list).
Is Scout Finch really a "rascal"?
I'm not too sure Oliver Twist fits my idea of one either.
Is Scout Finch really a "rascal"?
Fair question. She does into scrapes.
Her various schoolyard fights. And don't forget that she's just too young to understand when to be discreet and/or polite (telling that one boy that putting maple syrup on his food was wrong, calling Dill out on his fibs about his father).
