'Potential'
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."
Say what you will about Borders, I walked in and pulled two books off the shelves there that I hadnt' been able to find in six other independent book stores ranging from City Lights to Booksmith.
I now possess (my second copy of) The Universal Baseball Association by Robert Coover and Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.
I don't suppose you could swing back on your way home and check to see if they have V For Vendetta?
I don't suppose you could swing back on your way home and check to see if they have V For Vendetta?
I know they've got it at Virgin (15% off too) so I'll stop on the way home.
JZ! Synchronicity - I just read V for Vendetta yesterday for the first time.
DAMN fine book.
Hec got to Summerland before me...it's sitting on my bookshelf precisely because it seems pitched at people who love baseball. Which - not so much me. (Baseball is rounders, but more so, as I understand it. But with added passion and formality and tribal stuff. Which I applaud, but which is about as alien to me as cheerleading.) But I've heard good things about it, and do plan to have another crack at getting into it.
I liked Summerland well enough, but as a long-time sf/fantasy reader, I didn't think it was as creative and original as many did. Which is not to say it's not good. I adored Kavalier and Clay, though.
I'm so glad you found Howl's Moving Castle ! It's a crime that they didn't reprint it in time for the movie.
I'm so glad you found Howl's Moving Castle ! It's a crime that they didn't reprint it in time for the movie.
The crime of Stupidity! They could have made a lot of money for Diana.
JZ has absconded with the book and I won't see it until Monday though.
I too need to find a copy of V for Vendetta. A friend loaned me his a few years ago, and can't find it now. I'm sure I returned it, because I went through all my books when we moved, but he wants to re-read before the movie and buying him a new copy is a small price to pay to make the other one turn up.
Everytime I hear that title (V for Vendetta), I keep thinking it's the next Sue Grafton mystery.
Not just bios of sports figures. There's quite a bit of sports-related stuff out there that isn't bios.
Oh, yes. I've come to peruse quite a number of nonfiction books I might otherwise have missed. And in general, it's easier to sell a preteen boy on nonfiction than fiction. (I don't know why, but this tendency is not as pronounced among girls.)
Baseball is rounders, but more so, as I understand it. But with added passion and formality and tribal stuff.
Baseball is all I know about rounders. And, yeah. Lots of formality and tribal stuff, and also statistics.
I liked Summerland well enough, but
Ditto. It was breezy, fun, pleasant, but in the end it felt rather like piffle, to me.