I'm especially looking forward to The Grand Tour .
Thanks, sumi!
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Calli - Aug 23, 2004 6:02:27 am PDT #5622 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Atropa - Aug 23, 2004 6:12:41 pm PDT #5623 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm in the middle of reading The Grand Tour which is the sequel to Sorcery and Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot AIFG!!!
Gah! It's out?! Must have now now now!
sumi - Aug 23, 2004 6:40:38 pm PDT #5624 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Yes! It came out earlier than expected! I thought it was coming out in September and instead -- I have it now!
Susan W. - Aug 23, 2004 6:49:36 pm PDT #5625 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I just placed a purchase suggestion for it through the Seattle Public Library website. Which probably means tomorrow some poor overworked librarian will open her email, and think, "Not that Susan W again, with her incessant requests for obscure books on the Peninsular Wars for her silly novel that we have to track down for Interlibrary Loan from random collegiate libraries, and always making us buy any books her little author friends write."
sumi - Aug 23, 2004 6:52:32 pm PDT #5626 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Now, now -- this is post-Peninsular War, I'm sure that will make ALL the difference.
At least I think it's set post-Peninsular War -- you know, because the British are making Grand Tours again.
Susan W. - Aug 23, 2004 7:30:14 pm PDT #5627 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yeah, it's been so long since I read Sorcery & Cecelia that I can't remember what role, if any, Napoleon played in their version of the Regencyverse.
I've just gone from never using Interlibrary Loan or making purchase suggestions to doing one or both several times a month. I'm all, "Hey, library! You get my tax dollars, so you better put them to work. I want obscure out-of-print memoirs of the 95th Rifles, and I want them now! Not to mention this erudite analysis of the Siege of Badajoz. And WHY have you not ordered any copies of Marianne Stillings's debut book? People! She's a LOCAL AUTHOR." So I'm picturing librarians hating me.
Jesse - Aug 23, 2004 7:34:25 pm PDT #5628 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My current favorite library thing is the fact that I can put books on hold from home, and they just show up at my branch! EXCEPT: I was there today, and I saw a book on the counter that I was pretty sure was for me, but I wasn't sure and didn't ask, so of course I just got the notice that it was mine after all. Ah well.
Susan W. - Aug 23, 2004 7:54:04 pm PDT #5629 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Oh, I love that, too. It's rare that the books I get are from my home branch. And I check my holds list several times a week to see what my next arrivals will be.
flea - Aug 24, 2004 11:38:17 am PDT #5630 of 10002
information libertarian
Susan, the librarians probably LOVE you. If my experience of librarians is anything to go by. They're going, "ooh, I wonder what she'll come up with next!"
Susan W. - Aug 24, 2004 1:53:04 pm PDT #5631 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
OK, from now on I'll imagine them getting my requests and thinking "I bet this novel she's working on will be interesting," or "Where DOES she find out about all these interesting writers?"