Two weeks ago.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'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."
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2005 7:43:45 pm PDT #7412 of 10002
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Gandalfe - Apr 19, 2005 7:51:54 pm PDT #7413 of 10002
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I really, really like what they've done with it.
[Edit] And now that they've opened up the COffee Garden in there, that's where I get my coffee in the morning. I used to go to the (blech!) Starbucks in the Marriott on State, so I'm very very happy about this development. I hop off the light rail, and boom! My coffee's right there. Sometimes they see me coming and have it started before I get there.
Connie Neil - Apr 19, 2005 8:07:59 pm PDT #7414 of 10002
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It's taking some getting used to, because I liked all the used stuff down in the basement. I don't like going up and down the stairs between Sci-Fi and Fantasy and the writing books and the Biographies.
Still, if I lived in Salt Lake itself and had more leeway in jobs, I'd beg to work there. I haven't had time to just hang out in the coffee shop yet, I'm generally just passing through downtown on my way to my sister's. I'll have to just take a couple of hours some day and hang out with my notebook and a mocha.
Fred Pete - Apr 20, 2005 3:54:32 am PDT #7415 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Thinking about The Bookshop in Chapel Hill, which would be my choice for #1 used bookstore. Definitely #1 among the ones I've been to.
Started out in a long, narrow building. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves front to back. Barely enough space for a walkway down the middle. Well, except for the small play area in the children's book section. Way, way in the back was the bargain corner -- paperbacks 25 cents, hardcover 50 cents. And you never knew what you'd find there -- I snagged a 1930s edition of Anthony Adverse (1200-page novel, huge bestseller in its day) for 50 cents.
At some point, they expanded into the building next door. The annex was a little more open The shelves didn't extend quite so high.
Bookstore heaven.
Scrappy - Apr 20, 2005 5:31:53 am PDT #7416 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Best Used Bookstore? Reston's Used Bookshop in Virginia. Great kids section, lots of modern fiction, comfy chairs to sit and read, wonderful used cookbooks and biographies, live dulcimer player on weekends, and, best part of all? My mom's store, so the books were all free. She has since sold it, so I have to pay for my books, but it's still a terrific store and one of my first stops whenever I go home.
Fred Pete - Apr 20, 2005 5:52:55 am PDT #7417 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Robin, where is this store of which you speak?
I've lived in NoVa for almost 17 years -- including 1-1/2 years just off Lawyers Rd., a stone's throw from the Reston line -- and haven't found a decent used bookshop.
Nutty - Apr 20, 2005 6:02:50 am PDT #7418 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was very much a fan of Avenue Victor Hugo, before it went under. Excellent general fiction and SF collections.
The Brattle Bookshop and Boston Book Annex are the only two I know of (of any quality) inside city limits now, and neither of them have the kind of collection development AVH worked so hard at. In the Brattle, you'll find 12 copies of Proust, volume 1 of a 1888 repritn of Little Dorrit, and several out of print Isaac Asimov novels, but not the other, mid-list stuff, which IMHO is the bread-and-butter of used book sales.
McIntyre and Moore, near my house, isn't bad, but its focus is avowedly academic. Sometimes I can still find something good in the basement of the Harvard Bookshop, but not often. ...Actually, one of the reasons I go to cons is for better used book shopping opportunities.
(Yes, I'm a luddite; I still need to hold the book in my hands before I decide to buy it. So, I haven't gone far in online buying yet.)
Calli - Apr 20, 2005 6:14:29 am PDT #7419 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I think it was someone here who recommended Katie MacAlister's books. I got a couple from the library yesterday, and I'm really enjoying them. They're very good "take your mind off things" reading. So thanks for the recommendation!
Scrappy - Apr 20, 2005 6:45:46 am PDT #7420 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It's right on Lake Anne Plaza, in Reston. On Saturdays there's an okay farnmer's market there, and also a good new Moroccan restaurant, so it's worth checking out. [link]
Betsy HP - Apr 20, 2005 9:11:28 am PDT #7421 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Okay, guys, I am officially going on a twelve-step program. You guys are my witnesses.
I am NEVER EVER EVER buying another Laurell K. Hamilton in Hardback. This is cold turkey. There will be no more. Nada. Niente. Nichts.
The latest Merry book? Is all about sex. They have sex. But, dear God, they TALK about sex first. They argue about sex, what constitutes sex, what precisely they are going to do, and how many people there are room for in the bed.
And it's boring. Boring boring boring. Boring book about sex. And it is (conservatively) 90% sex, 10% plot.
Nobody should have to suffer through that much unarousing boring pornography.
Help me. Help me be strong. Remind me of this pledge when the next Anita book comes out.