If I"m flying to Cali, and can't have books? What's the point?
Note to people hosting meara: Please check your area for all used bookstores before she arrives. She will particularly want Very Fat Very Out Of Print Science Fiction Books From Series.
Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear. Wash: So?
'Objects In Space'
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."
DavidS - Apr 18, 2005 5:37:33 pm PDT #7395 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2005 6:13:20 pm PDT #7396 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I fear I'd prove the moron right by demonstrating how books can be employed as offensive weapons.
Yes, I'd no doubt be restrained and subjected to a cavity search afterwards, but at least the one I got would be a matter of policy rather than medical necessity.
Jesse - Apr 19, 2005 5:41:22 am PDT #7397 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I picked up Michael Connolly's The Narrows yesterday, in a reading material crisis. I've liked his stuff fine, but in the beginning of this book, they talk about the Clint Eastwood movie of Blood Work, and the book The Poet, and it's just weird. I don't know how I feel about characters in my book knowing they are characters in a book. Alternatively, I don't know how I feel about pretending The Poet was nonfiction.
Calli - Apr 19, 2005 5:43:54 am PDT #7398 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My last plane trip, when I was traveling with friends, with drinking strongly encouraged, and, in short, with every possible non-book entertainment in an airport on hand, I took four books. And a magazine. Two books? Dude.
Fred Pete - Apr 19, 2005 5:54:26 am PDT #7399 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Two books?
I might be able to get by with 2. If one of them is 800 pages or so.
And I can pack the rest in the bags I check.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 19, 2005 5:58:47 am PDT #7400 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I actually tend to take 2 or fewer books on vacation with me (reading while in motion makes me ill), but as checking out used bookstores is one of the fun things I do on vacation, the return trip involves rather larger numbers of them.
Daisy Jane - Apr 19, 2005 8:47:33 am PDT #7401 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Has anyone read Music of the Spheres or something like that (maybe a longer title)? I'm listening to it on the iPod before bed, and I can't tell if it's good or I just like hearing Tim Curry read me to sleep. I haven't gotten very far, and I'm wondering if there's something I might enjoy more.
sj - Apr 19, 2005 11:16:15 am PDT #7402 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone read Sue Monk Kidd's new book, The Mermaid Chair? I'm pretty sure my mother loved The Secret Life of Bees, so I was thinking about getting this for her for her upcoming birthday, BUT the review on amazon says
Jesse, thanks for mentioning the connection to The Secret Lives of Bees. Mom loved that book; I'll have to look into the Mermaid Chair for Mother's Day.
meara - Apr 19, 2005 2:54:07 pm PDT #7403 of 10002
Heh. David, San Francisco is rather specially gifted in used bookstores, though. Many places, I don't end up in ANY used bookstores! Though I admit, when I went to Portland I was in Powell's about an hour after I touched down in the airport. :)
I have been known to carry more books back than I carried to my destination, though. In fact, that probably happens most times. I mean...why buy books if I'm just going to toss them?
I'm thinking on this round-the-world trip, though, I'll have to buy some crappy books that I don't mind exchanging--hopefully can swap them at hostels or sell them at used bookstores to keep my load light.
DavidS - Apr 19, 2005 3:03:38 pm PDT #7404 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, San Francisco is rather specially gifted in used bookstores, though.
It's true. When I was growing up, I'd excitedly wait for the new Yellow Pages to see if there were any new bookstores within reach of me and my bike. Now I can take them for granted. I basically know where they all are, but I don't have to hit all of them to get what I want. It's usually enough for me to hit the ones on Haight Street, or swoop by a few in Berkeley when I collect Emmett.
Speaking of which...wish me good traffic.