The chairs at the dining table were gorgeous. I liked the bed, too.

Loved the bed, but I love the design of that "screen" even more--what a brilliant idea, to have bookshelves on wheels with the ability to fold up! That would save me tons of room in my apartment.

It cracks me up that there are so few actual books shown.

One of the most awful stories I ever heard was about the wealthy woman who went to an antiquarian bookstore and purchased leatherbound books by the linear foot as a decorative device. Then she asked if the bookstore would cut them in half, because the shelves she had were too shallow. Good thing this House of Books link is cool with the faux.

It was just announced on my Regency writers' board that Zebra is discontinuing its traditional line. It doesn't really surprise me, but I honestly thought Signet would move first--they've been bringing out two Regencies per month to Zebra's four, and I've heard vague buzz that makes me feel like they're about to drop the line.

Traditional Regencies were the first romances I ever read, and I have a friend who just published her first and has another scheduled for the fall, plus two critique partners who are working on simply brilliant stories for the format. Sigh. End of an era.

I'm surprised there's any still out there, Susan. When I quit Waldenbooks back in 2002, they seemed to be phasing them out even then.

I'm betting Signet will end their line too by the end of the year.

I finished Paladin of Souls by staying up 'til 2:35 am Thursday night. (Luckily I had Friday off.)

The Hallowed Hunt is still in processing at the library. Any librarians here who might have an estimate on how long "processing" can take? Or is this something totally dependent on the number of books and the size of the staff involved? I'm guessing small for the size of the staff.

I don't know where on the The Hallowed Hunt list I am!

The night before that I stayed up to finish Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart. That was also really really good.

And I'm currently reading Owls Well that Ends Well by Donna Andrews. It opens at a multi-family yard sale. I was pressed to not laugh out loud while reading this at the library.

I liked Perfect Circle too, sumi. Although it also creeped me out, it was pretty funny, and had an excellent sense of place (the dregs of Houston).

I am 100 pages into Little, Big and cannot yet describe what it is about. I almost said it was a novel about Edwardian fairies, but that's not really true, and the setting and characters are almost all American. Anyway, it's the sort of novel that invokes but does not define theosophy, and the sort of novel where people have mysterious numinous experiences and sort of stagger back, blown away by the mysteriousness of the world. There will be elves, later, or I miss my guess. (Not the gurly kind with the hair gel, either.)

Ahh, the sublimeness of Little, Big. Odds are, when you've reached the end, you still won't be able to say what it was about. Well worth the trip, though.