Hey Kate and P-C -- you're not crazy. In looking for something else, I just stumbled across this:
Murder Ink
1 Whitehall near Water.
A branch of the original. The usual suspects, plus a nice magazine selection
Huh.
Sir? I'd like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.
Zoe ,'Serenity'
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."
Jesse - Sep 08, 2004 8:41:26 am PDT #5737 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Anne W. - Sep 08, 2004 8:54:48 am PDT #5738 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Loathe The Shipping News.
My brother! I've tried reading it three or four times, since is my mom's favorite book (or was, until I steered her towards Kavalier and Clay ). My beef with TSN was not so much the style of writing but with the fact that I just couldn't get interested in the character and his problems.
Steph L. - Sep 08, 2004 9:11:44 am PDT #5739 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My beef with TSN was not so much the style of writing but with the fact that I just couldn't get interested in the character and his problems.
Bingo. I always say that Emma was the only book I couldn't finish, but that's because TSN was so bloody boring that I forget that I even tried to read it.
Kate P. - Sep 08, 2004 9:45:30 am PDT #5740 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
t does not-crazy dance
I'm reading The Day of the Triffids and really enjoying it. Although I have to wonder exactly how blase people really would have been about giant mysterious plants that can not only maim and blind you, but can also WALK!
Betsy HP - Sep 08, 2004 10:33:12 am PDT #5741 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
As I get older, there are zillions and zillions and zillions of books I don't bother finishing.
Soon, my attention span will be so short that-- hey! What's tha?
Anne W. - Sep 08, 2004 10:38:54 am PDT #5742 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Although I have to wonder exactly how blase people really would have been about giant mysterious plants that can not only maim and blind you, but can also WALK!
Given the crabgrass infestation I have in my front yard and the poison ivy pit in the back, I think I'd be pretty blasé about a Triffid by this point.
Consuela - Sep 08, 2004 10:39:22 am PDT #5743 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm sorely tempted to go pick up Jonathan Strange at Stacey's during lunch.
Someone give me a good reason not to do this. Because I'm sure my local bookstore will have it.
Betsy HP - Sep 08, 2004 10:40:53 am PDT #5744 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I don't know, Suela. I went to B&N at 9AM after my doctor's appointment, and they didn't have it out. Sulk. And because it's a Spare The Air day, I'm not going out to buy it during lunch.
I say you should go to Stacey's.
Ginger - Sep 08, 2004 10:41:06 am PDT #5745 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The fact that it cost $28 at my local bookstore is what dissuaded me.
Katerina Bee - Sep 08, 2004 10:41:43 am PDT #5746 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
I love Stacey's. Tell it I would drop in for lunch and flash my credit card, but I am far, far away from nice things to visit at lunch.
on edit: Picked up a copy of Jennifer Crusie's Bet Me at the free table in the lunch room, though. Woot!