Xander ,'End of Days'
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 liked sunshine. I did not payattention to the details of the bakeing - so I missed them.
Stephanie Laurens I read one book by her- it was incoherent. A friend of mine read it and came to the same conclusion. so I have been afraid to read anything else by
Now must go to work at my library
( PS - no one behiond the desk makes any judgements about fines. unless you try and weasel out of them)
When I get big, I'm gonna sponsor a liberry and give them all the money they want.
You're the best!
Regarding library fees, it's twelve bucks CDN, not US. It has gone up in the past few years, plus now that our dollar's doing better, it's not as good of a deal... I guess. I really don't mind paying though, and the late fees are not that bad. Plus you can take out as many as you want. I feel sorry for those ppl who live outside of town- their yearly fee is something like a hundred bucks. Although I did see one guy who lives outside of town with two duffel bags full of books. I guess he only comes in every three weeks or so. (He had some for his kids too.)
Robin, if I look in the yellow pages for "Reston's Used Bookstore", will I find it? I'll totally take a trip if it's open on Sunday...
This is pathetic, because it's been years, but I'm still kind of traumatised by my one trip into a used book store in DC (on R, maybe? Upstairs) that was a lovely looking place, but then I realized that anything I would be even vaguely interested in reading was all in one crappy bookshelf labeled "MASS MARKET." I'm way too mass market for that place.
Oh, I've been there, Robin! I went with a friend of mine who works out near there--I took her to mine (which is the Book Alcove, someone else mentioned it) and she took me to hers, and then we went for bubble tea. It was an awesome day.
Cool, Meara!
We neither buy nor trade textbooks, encyclopedias, Harlequin Romances, very specialized books, computer books, books in poor condition, and most book club novels
Robin, Just out of curiosity, what does the store have against Harlequin romance? Dreck, surely, but who are we to judge? :)
My guess -- totally out of the blue -- is that Harlequins, along with all the rest of that list of categories, fall out of date or out of print quickly and have no collector value. (Encyclopedias are only valuable if they're really really old, book club books aren't as valuable as non-book-club editions, and "very specialized books" sounds like a catchall category for "won't fetch a nice price considering the amount of space it will take up".)
my one trip into a used book store in DC
FWIW, I used to visit this one place outside Dupont Circle that had all manner of books, including the dusty tiny-print elderly stuff, but also sold vintage movie posters in frames. They had a French 3-sheet poster for Mad Max premiering at Cannes, and a 1-sheet size of The Empire Strikes Back, with a little banner in the corner with "Coming soon! Revenge of the Jedi!" (It was like $300, or I might have bought it.)
For the life of me I can't remember whether I ever bought any books there, but I sure remember the posters.