YES!! Hehehe….. they actually listened to me… kewl. I really want to go to Powells, becaue it sounds so cool, and because it was featured in Chasing Vermeer, which is really good.
I could live in Powells. I’ve only been there once, last mondays when I was in Portland, but it was paradise I tell you. Endless rows of books on everything you could possibly imagine. I got stuck in the poetry section for 35 min alone before I remembered that I only had an hour to browse.
Powells is a 2-3 storey bookstore that takes uo 3 city blocks in Portland, OR, for those who don’t know.
My bookstore is Amazon, because that way I don’t have to get in the car. My skool library is where I got most of my books for the last 3 years, because I had a really froody librarian lady who fan an excellent library. I should visit my public one sometime though.
Right now, I’m reading The Big Over Easy , by Jasper Fforde.
People look at me like haddock when I tell them how many books I can read in a school year. Last year, the number was over 300. I ♥ books and I don’t see why people want to spend their time playing video games and watching TV instead of reading. Turning the pages is too much work, eh?
I can’t hit shift + letter at the same time. I just had to go back and redo every single “I” in this post. I propose that this disability be called unshifter’s syndrome.
In terms of books, I have an interest in cooking, a liking for
Harry Potter, and a passion for bonobos.
Cooking allows one to explore exoctic new flavors.
Harry Potter is exciting and mysterious, and hardly ever makes you lose interest.
And bonobos.
What can I say about bonobos.
They are fabulous, beautiful, gorgeous animals.
They are the only animals that ever got it right.
They are the only animals, where the women are completely, and undeniably in charge.
Oh sure there are some animals like elephants, with matriarchal society. Hell. If the guys want something, they are gonna chase the girls till they get it.
I have great respect for women who speak for themselves, and who protest the dominance of the male gender.
Not to mention, bonobos are very kind and gentle animals. Who seek to give each other pleasure, instead of jumping down each others throats about the simple things.
Therefor, to me, there is no creature on this earth, more incredible, gentler, kinder, fabulous, passionate, or lovlier, then the bonobo. *
* To see my poem on bonobos, go to the ‘Poetry’ thread.
WARNING: Do not read about bonobos, unless you are prepared to become addicted to the most beautiful thing in the world.
Okay just joking. I’m not addicted. Just in love with an idea.
The idea that one day, we could be more like them.
We have Waldenbooks, not Borders where I live. And a huge Barnes&Noble. But they’re about half an hour away if one drives. There are three libraries, one within walking distance…I could spend days in B&N…I think it’s the 5th biggest one in the country…w00t. And it comes with a Starbucks.
I like used bookstores, like Half Price Books. They are all over the country. I once got a hardback book of leonardo da vinci’s paintings for 87 cents there!!!! Also, a fun fact: Seattle has more bookstores per capita than any other city. And also, the most variety of independent bookstores in the country.
I love used book sales. I have quite a few. You can tell, because their spines are bent. I HATE BENT SPINES AND DOG-EARED PAGES. I’m obsessive about such things. HATE THEM! But I live near a PSU campus (not the main one) and they have many used book sales. w00t. I have some textbooks that I’ve purchaced for $1 each. Yayness.
Borders and Barnes and Noble-die!! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!
Sie Kaftarina-live on forever. Your one-dollar manga bin makes my heart and wallet sing in universal joy.
What was the name of the Canadian bookstore that removed the issue of Harper’s that had the commentary on those oh-so-controversial Mohammed cartoons? Well, they’re awful too.
17- Barnes and Noble is actually a very good store and very ethical in their actions too- they don’t discriminate against GLBTs, they employ progressive practices, they provide humane working conditions,etc. And they have good books, chocolate, and a Starbucks in their stores. what’s not to like?
(18) Barnes and Noble is huge and overpriced and pushes out small independant bookstores, and they have Starbucks in there stores, that’s what’s not to like.
(but hey, I shop there too sometimes, so I shouldn’t talk)
there is a nice bookstore ,but its far away. barnes and noble? its prtty far to, but not as far. not that i usually buy books there. I write down all the titles and get them from the library. the nearest library is small, but its close. and i order most books from the libraries anyway.
I also like the Independant bookstores in woodstock. You’know, the democractic ones? I bought “The Blue Pages” in one, a corporate directory based on buisness politics.
on my scale borders is worse than barnes and noble which is worse than independant bookstores. I go to the independent and used bookstores in my city. One of my favorite bookstores in Madison Wisconsin (not my city no need to zap, when I went there I was on vacation) and it is called Avol’s. I also like Shakespeare and Company in Paris and Politics and Prose in Washington DC.
18-The fact that they’re a huge chain with about 4% of the books I want? The other fact that they choke (d) out all of the mom-and-pop, or any combination of the two, stores in an area, and suffocate all independent bookstores ever? That they got mad at the guy who stuck all the Bibles in the ‘Fiction’ section? Yeah, I can dislike that.
23-Will you post your scale, Elasse-Adael darling? Thank you!
There’s some book store in my town called “Here Be Books”. It’s pretty cool. Also, when I was on vacation in Colorado Springs in Colorado, there was this independent bookstore in a outlet mall that was stacked to the ceiling with all sorts of books at cheap prices. I actually got watership down there for like on ly 50 cents!
I prefer the library… but I always have gift cards to places like Borders and Barnes & Noble, so I get a lot there. Wonderful aura for finding books, I tell you. And not too crowded. At least by my house, Plus, the Borders has a piano.
hehe, i work at a library. i think that the librbains are not antirely human, or if they are, they get shot in the arm every morning with a drug that makes them unnaturaly cranky. but they all try to be relatively friendly to me, since i am a volunteer and could in theory just walk out of them.
i could and often do spend all day in bookstores, listening to music and reading things that do not yet belong to me.
and you should put up a Terry Pratchet thread, since you already gave one over to that upstart JK Rowling. he writes like me, but i didnt know it till recently. or maybe i write like him. he is, after all, much older.
My first job was in a library in Old Town Alexandria. I was 14. Every payday I’d stroll a couple of blocks to the Ariel Bookshop on King Street, a tiny one-room place run by a tiny old woman and her cat and crammed from floor to high ceiling with books. I bought complete collections of Coleridge and Byron and Keats, Eliot and Yeats, and New Variorum editions of Shakespeare (thick, sturdy paperbacks that were 90 percent footnotes). The owner loved to talk about Shakespeare, too. “Ah, yes, Measure for Measure. Very dark.”
(The bookstore is long gone. It’s a sandal shop now, I think–sells Birkenstocks and such.)
In Michigan, where my grandparents live, there is an awesome independent bookstore called Bookbeat. It is SO cool. Whenever my aunt takes me out to get a manicure, she always takes me there. That’s where I got my first copy of A Wrinkle In Time. I also got a really cool Margaret Peterson Haddix book called Double Identity.
‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them’ by Al Franken?
I’m not sure if I should be talking about this on a books thread, or a politics thread, but it is funny with a capital F.
One of the most obnoxious right wingers that I learned about from the book, was Bill O’ Reilly.
Accortding to Al, Bill has a very short fuse, and is prone to screeching fits.
Bill apparently lied about an award that the show ‘C-Span’ which he hosted at one point, won. He claimed the show won two Peabody awards. It turned out it was actually a Paulk (I have no clue if I spelled that right).
And then, after admiting his mistake, he denied that he ever said it.
And, as Bill, Al, and Moly Ivins were all promoting books of theirs, Bill started lying again, to try and cover up his mistake.
“No, no I tried to interject!” – Al Franken to Bill O’ Rielly
“Hey shut up! You had your thirty five minutes! (Al had spoken for twenty) SHUT UP!” – Bill O’ Rielly to Al Franken in front of hundreds of people on TV.
What a jackass.
I could tell you lots more about the obnoxious conservatives in this book, but I don’t wanna spoil it too much.
I can’t deny shopping at Barnes and Noble. Heck, I’m probably worse than everybody here. There’s a half price books right across the street from the B&N. I don’t particularly hate B&N for any reason, but i like to go to local indie (does that apply to bookstores?) places when there are any. There’s some place around here called Penguin Books. I should check it out. I usually use the library to find out which books i would pay money for. I say you haven’t really read a book unless you’ve read it multiple times. And sometimes i’ll read just one chapter of a particuar book spontaniously, so it’s nice to own the books that i like. if there’s anything i hate about B&N, it’s that they charge WAY too much for their coffee and stuff. It’s not like you have to buy it, but it’s still annoying. They know that you’ll probably be hanging out in the bookstore for numerous hours, so you’ll get hungry and they can overprice their edibles. With a name like ‘Here be Books’, it has to be cool, Peace Frog. But i guess i shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
I DEFINATELY prefer the library to bookstores. When I’m in a bookstore, I always bring paper and a pencil, so if I see a book I like I can go across the street and get it from the library.
37 – I do that a lot, too. My budget is limited, so I usually have to get books from the library rather than purchasing my own copies. Fortunately, Louisville has plenty of libraries around with a variety of books. You can usually find what you’re looking for fairly easily.
Louisville doesn’t have a lot of indie bookstores, or rather, it probably does but I’m only aware of a few of them. The two that come to mind right now are Carmichael’s and A Reader’s Corner, both of which are fairly small but usually carry interesting books. Carmichael’s invites authors for book signings sometimes. There’s also a Borders, Barnes & Noble, and a Half-Price Books. I’m not partial to any of those in particular; I’ve shopped at all of them. Normally, I hate shopping, but leave me in a bookstore and I’ll happily spend all day there. If my friends and I go to a movie, we usually end up visiting the nearest bookstore afterwards and spending more time there than in the theater, lol.
One independent bookstore that used to be in Louisville but no longer exists was Hawley-Cooke Booksellers. I practically grew up in that store, but it went out of business a few years ago. All of the people who worked there loved books, the store had books of all genres, and the prices were reasonable. There was even a “designated reading area” in the middle of the store where people could stop and read in the midst of browsing the store. I really miss that place! To my knowledge, the only store was in Louisville, but I could be wrong. Has anyone heard of another Hawley-Cooke opening anywhere?
33- Yeah, I read that book. Highly amusing. But let’s keep the conservative bashing to a minimum here, as it’s not exactly what I’d call “open minded and friendly towards all pools of thought”. (remember why MG left)
i have a bookmark from borders that says SHH! IM TRYING TO READ! on it. i usually put it on the table/desk in front of me when im reading…but then ppl start asking me where i got it. grr…how do you nicely tell a person to shut up (when youre reading)?
I’m volunteeNing at the medical library at the general hospital this summer. w00t. I hope the crazy guys work there againe. They were so funny. We volunteeNs don’t do much at the library, just organize books, find tapes/CDs/DVDs/cassettes/etc. for the residents, fax out copies of articles in medical journals, and laugh at the kids who can’t use the copy machine properly. That last one sounds mean, but, honestly, you type in the number, “100,” and press “COPY”. You do NOT press “COPY” one hundred times. It’s not that hard. Yes, that actually happened. But anyway, there are computers with internet access there that hardly anyone uses, so I will try to post here from the medical library.
It was regarding stupid quotes from George W. Bush.
[I zapped it, Cedar. It was off topic. Even on the “Hot Topics” thread, easy Bush-bashing doesn’t help create a very interesting discussion. MuseBloggers decided that months ago. –Robert]
When I’m in Borders and I’m not familiar with a manga series, I stand by the shelf and start reading the first volume to see whether I like it enough to buy it. The staff probably hates me since I usually end up reading one or two whole volumes and then not buying them, lol.
1 w00t daniel pinkwater!
estoy un fanati!
i hav read…
borgel
yobgorgle
hoboken chicken emergency
snarkout boys and baconburg horror
snarkout boys and avacado of death
the srtsy smartsy club
searching for bobowitz
alan mendohnson, the boy from mars
young adult novel
the last guru
once upona blue moose
worms of kukumlima there
any i hav not read? (by DP)
ah yes.
a bookstore, called books of wonder
has an awesome cupcake place in it(like starbucks in b&n, exept like better. much better)books of wonder is lots better than &n and cupcake cafe is lots better than starbucks
also, near my house = strand.
8 miles of used books. w00t
This discussion is really making me miss “boink0”, a bookstore/book rental in Pismo Beach I used to adore. They had these costumes as well, and I have, from their warehouse:
-an Edie Sedgwick costume
-an Elvis Costello costume
-a pair of Spockesque synthetic ears
-a pair of size eight women’s checker/rainbow/plaid galoshes
-a Marilyn Monroe wig
-a rubber-band boa I bought from a fashion design 0student who happened to be there for fifty dollars. It’s heavy.
-a pair of pink five-inch stiletto shoes that lit up when pressed and had a button that said “Ooh, baby” in a low voice.
i love libraries. i worked at my school library until i changed schools. (sadly, my current school has no library) but i still volunteer at the public library. we have seriously awesome indie bookstores where i live. there’s this one that sells t-shirts saying keep #$(@*^%@))_ wierd. and they’re pretty big, so they usually have the book i want. i go to borders as an absolute last resort.
50- I desperately want ears like that. I tried to order them online, but my parentw wouldn’t let me use their credit cards, as they thought my request was frivolous.
A rubber-band boa? *is jealous* I want one of those.
Spockesque ears rock my socks.
(40) I’m going to make myself one of those now. One of my pet peeves it people interrupting me when I’m reading. If it’s a good reason, like the builing is on fire or extra-terrestrials just landed outside and want to talk to me, I don’t mind, but otherwise it drives me insane.
There is no Borders around here, except in the airport, and you can’t get to that part unless you have a flight. Plus stuff in airports is always prohibitively expensive.
I think I have a Borders around here somewhere…. I just can’t think of where… oh vell… I have a Barnes and Noble though!!! I spend a lot of time in the bookstore… hehe…. I could live in a bookstore….
OMG i hav fallen in love w/ Greagory Maguire’s works…..
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (which by the way has been made into a musical, winning numerous awards including 3 tonys and the grammy),
Son of a Witch, the kinda sorta not really sequel to Wicked,
Confesions of an Ugly Stepsister (funny!),
Mirror Mirror,
and Lost, which i havent yet gotten my hands on.
funny. the cd audio recording of wicked is twenty hrs long… and i read the book in a little over five hrs. :roll:but seriously! the guy read it like this:
the…….. witch……….. flew………….. to………………………..
such–and–such………… a………….. place
no wonder it was 20 hrs!!!!!! booooooring. raised sum iteresting points though. also suggested that Elphie (the witch) was the daughter of the wizard….. ?! and she was the best friend of Glinda the Good in colledge…. veeeeeeery strange. quite dramatic at the end… i cried wen the witch died, which according to the book was the result of three sleepless nights, a firey broom, and an innocent little bucket of water. sigh…. it also explains the reasons for the lion’s cowardice, the orgins of the tin man, the two wicked witches, Nessarose (witch of the east)and Elphaba (EL-fa-ba is the pronunciation – derived from the author of the wizard of oz’s initials, L-F-B. Elphaba), Elphie’s backround, her relationship with Glinda the Good, and so on. goooooooooood book that i could rave on about for hrs (but I will spare you.)
so pretty much wicked is the wicked witch of the west,
son of a witch is the witches son
confessions is the ugly stepsister of cinderella
mirror mirror is snow white, of sorts, in italy or somewhere in 1502…
46- I do. When I was twelve or so I read those all the time. I still like them (and the Brad Strickland ones) though I don’t read them as often anymore.
62- I like Wicked but I haven’t read any of the other books. I’m thinking of reading Son of a Witch though.
I miss Schulers. I never bought much there. But i miss it anyway.
Barnes+Nobles is cool. I like the big one at Easton. They have very comfy chairs.
But bookstores aren’t for buying books. Crazy idea. No, they’re for sitting around and reading the “merchandise” and getting glares from various salespeople. Occasionally you buy something good.
OMG there’s this AMAZING little bookstore downtown i think it’s by katzinger’s but mebbe i made that up. it’s 32 teeny little rooms stuffed full of books. It is incredible. You can get lost so easily. See the key is lose your parents. Then they can’t leave without you, right? Plenty of time that way.
Aside from the columbus library being about 5 min. away in a car, there’s a library about half a mile away that’s pretty sweet and has a lot of good books. And movies. We never go to blockbuster anymore, you can get everything free from the library. (You do have to be 16+ to check them out though. but that’s ok)
So yeah. Plus we own a lot of good books. I’m happy. Squee!!!
Heeheehee I read merchandise all the time without buying it. But I don’t destroy the spines or dogear the pages or anything because that would be EVILLE!!!!
66-Mine do leave without me. Like today-I came home from a party and there were separate notes from each member of the family, explaining where they were, telling me what was in the fridge six times, and asking where the zark the other family membs were. I’m being healthy and exercising while I’m doing this. Typing. On my Dvorak keyboard, for once. I can use both, but Dvorak is my homeland and I heart it.
69-If you ever do that to one of my books, I will personally be very nasty to you and call you a whinging sack of parrot droppings. But it’s all right, Kiki-we heart you anyway.
70-“Oh, I can’t believe it
When people are strange
The president’s crazy
Did you hear what he said?” Identify the quote and get 42 hot pink bunny points.
72- I sympathize. Do your parents ever go out of town and forget to tell you?
Me: *looks at clock* *wonders where everyone is* *calls dad*
Dad: Oh yeah. Ummm, Mum’s at work, Abby’s got a study session and….I’m in Washington DC.
Me: Oh. That’s nice to know.
Well it depends…
In Grinnell, the library is about a half-hour walk from my house. They need to build a new one, though, and not enough people voter for it. We don’t have any good bookstores, but there is at least one Border and Barnes&Noble within driving distance. An indipendant bookstore called Prarie Lights has a good selection. (And three floors.)
In Hilo, we have to drive to the library. There is a Borders in town by the mall and *shudders* Wal-Mart. There used to be a Waldenbooks, but Borders got most of the business, and it was replace by a Christian bookstore.
I am staying in California on my way back to Iowa. The have one of those awsome and froody bookstors that sells both new and used books.
In terms of bookstores, I prefer indipendant bookstores with cozy winding coridors where I can hide and read untill my dad comes to get me. I wil however be flexible, and long as they have books…
I just got a few Rumpole paperbacks and a Rock Encyclopedia. I gotta tell you, I only bring paperbacks when I travel. They’re lighter, easier, and less painful to lose or destroy.
75- my brother’s actually staying there over the summer- he got a MAP. he did come home for a week or so to visit us, though. of course, that was during the week I was at camp…
I think about four people will. It’s not a smart liberal, it’s a man whom many people thought subclinically neurotic-as a psychiatrist would say, stark staring bonkers. A certain person who interviewed. Himself.
I just packed my selection of books for camp. Alastair Reynolds, mucho Heinlein, mas Rumpole, a couple miscellaneous Dune chronicles, and my uncut version of Stranger In A Strange Land, with the charming blue cover.
The library in my town is really teeny, like, two rooms, but they have really good books there but its not good to go there if you’re looking for a book, because they probably dont have it. ANIME ROCKS!!!!! (wow, that was totally random)
Isthere any town besides woodsovk (aka hippitoown NY) that has small, dmeocractic bookstores, selling micheal moore and bush-bashing books? Man, I luff those…..
88- Don’t worry. It’s a phantastique book. Seriously. It’s full of subtle humor, satire. And it’s pretty easy to get used to the language.
I just finished Emma which was fun. Much more complicated than P&P. All so satisfying, and clever.
#89: oh, yeah, youre funny. *moans again*
#91: the thing is, most of the books you guys rave about are books that ive already attempted reading – and then quit after the first page or so. sure, i read muse, but im not the “super-smart” stereotype.
92, emogrl- see, the thing about P&P is that it isn’t boring, and it isn’t all soppy-romantic because the main character, Elizabeth, is so wonderfully sarcastic and snarky. And I love Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine- they’re so.. over the top and wonderful.
92- Yeah I’m sure it probably is hard to get in to. I’ve never actually read the whole thing but I’ve seen excerpts of it and things like it. The story is a good one and it is a good book. Just hard to get into at first.
you guys are so lucky that you have big book stores nearby.
I live in a pretty small town in Wyoming so the library is small and pretty far away from where we live. We only have 2 small bookshops and a used bookstore, and out of the ones we have most sell adult books. I’m not complaining, it’s just that it would be nice to have a better selection.
anyway,have you been in the denver library? its like a skyscraper. its amazing
There’s nothing I love more than going to the library (Except maybe swimming. And I love going to church. And I think hanging out with my friends is slightly higher on this list. Plus hanging out on the internet. Okay, so there are about fifty billiion things that I love more than going to the library, but you have to allow me some poetic license.) I love going through stacks and stacks of books, remembering recommendations from my brother or friends, pausing over authors I recognize, trying to cut my stack down to the books I could reasonably expect to read before they’re due again… It’s so awesome.
Lately I’ve been reading some interesting books. I just finished “The Screwtape Letters” and “The Abolition of Man”, both by C.S. Lewis. They were awesome books. I’m right in the middle of “This Present Darkness”, by Frank Peretti. Have any of you ever heard of that book? I’ve heard about it most of my life, but I’ve never read it. I’m also perusing “The Runaway Jury” by John Grisham.
After I’m done with those books I’m planning to start on LotR. I’m also hoping to indulge in some of Dickens this summer, read some new books by some of my favorite authors (Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti), and jump back into “Don Quixote”. If I have any time at all left, I’m going to return to my literary “comfort food” of Austen, L.M. Montgomery, and some Twain. Of course there’s the staple of reading my Bible, and I’m definitely going to seek out some more of Lewis’s writings. All in all I’ve got kind of a packed summer reading wise.
emogrl- Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors, but I just have that kind of sense of humor. Her writing style has all the elements I love in a book- subtle and sarcastic humor, satire, just the right amount of hinting to help us see the ridiculousness of a situation, intricate story lines, insightful character studies, a wonderful way of using words, etc. There’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t like her, you just look for different things in a books.
Our libraries are awesome. Most of them were built by Andrew Carnegie (well, he didn’t actually build them, but…). He didn’t want his children to have all his money, he wanted them to have to work for it, just like he did, so he donated all his money to the making of libraries and museums. So, all our museums and libraries are called, “The Carnegie Library/Carnegie Museum”
S. Melpomene, that’s a college. I want to read the The Screwtape Letters, but i have’t gotten around to it. I went to the Penguin place (if anybody remembers what I’m talking about) and i must say, it was pretty pitiful. It had a teeny selection of new releases only. It did have a used section, but they didn’t have anything good at the time. Oh well. It’s back to B&N for me.
Every single book that ever got an American copyright……..it makes me feel all giddy inside.
Our library has nothing. The Young Adult section is totally Meg Cabot-ized. And the children’s side is way too short. It makes me want to cry.
my library is several miles away. And you can’t walk anywhere/ride your bike in this stupid town anyway..
I like science fiction and fantasy and mystery and other kinds of books. Daniel Pinkwater is cool. You should read his stuff.
Barnes and Noble’s always smells so cool..
Why is this filed under birthdays?
anyhoo, I like Borders Books and Music.They have pretty much everything in such a small store. Its where I get my warriors books.
ooh, i ♥ borders! the one near where i live has a relly good musik section. and it actually has a manga section. w00t!
YES!! Hehehe….. they actually listened to me… kewl. I really want to go to Powells, becaue it sounds so cool, and because it was featured in Chasing Vermeer, which is really good.
I could live in Powells. I’ve only been there once, last mondays when I was in Portland, but it was paradise I tell you. Endless rows of books on everything you could possibly imagine. I got stuck in the poetry section for 35 min alone before I remembered that I only had an hour to browse.
Powells is a 2-3 storey bookstore that takes uo 3 city blocks in Portland, OR, for those who don’t know.
My bookstore is Amazon, because that way I don’t have to get in the car. My skool library is where I got most of my books for the last 3 years, because I had a really froody librarian lady who fan an excellent library. I should visit my public one sometime though.
Right now, I’m reading The Big Over Easy , by Jasper Fforde.
People look at me like haddock when I tell them how many books I can read in a school year. Last year, the number was over 300. I ♥ books and I don’t see why people want to spend their time playing video games and watching TV instead of reading. Turning the pages is too much work, eh?
I can’t hit shift + letter at the same time. I just had to go back and redo every single “I” in this post. I propose that this disability be called unshifter’s syndrome.
In terms of books, I have an interest in cooking, a liking for
Harry Potter, and a passion for bonobos.
Cooking allows one to explore exoctic new flavors.
Harry Potter is exciting and mysterious, and hardly ever makes you lose interest.
And bonobos.
What can I say about bonobos.
They are fabulous, beautiful, gorgeous animals.
They are the only animals that ever got it right.
They are the only animals, where the women are completely, and undeniably in charge.
Oh sure there are some animals like elephants, with matriarchal society. Hell. If the guys want something, they are gonna chase the girls till they get it.
I have great respect for women who speak for themselves, and who protest the dominance of the male gender.
Not to mention, bonobos are very kind and gentle animals. Who seek to give each other pleasure, instead of jumping down each others throats about the simple things.
Therefor, to me, there is no creature on this earth, more incredible, gentler, kinder, fabulous, passionate, or lovlier, then the bonobo. *
* To see my poem on bonobos, go to the ‘Poetry’ thread.
WARNING: Do not read about bonobos, unless you are prepared to become addicted to the most beautiful thing in the world.
Okay just joking. I’m not addicted. Just in love with an idea.
The idea that one day, we could be more like them.
I think I’ve said my piece.
We have Waldenbooks, not Borders where I live. And a huge Barnes&Noble. But they’re about half an hour away if one drives. There are three libraries, one within walking distance…I could spend days in B&N…I think it’s the 5th biggest one in the country…w00t. And it comes with a Starbucks.
Waldenbooks…. Waldenbooks… That sounds familiar…. Do you live in Michigan, California, or New York?
Powells is where I live, too. It’s a used book store in Hyde Park (which isn’t where I live).
We have a Borders and a Barns&Noble. Lottsa books.
Yay.
8: Starbucks!!! Seattle!!!!
I like used bookstores, like Half Price Books. They are all over the country. I once got a hardback book of leonardo da vinci’s paintings for 87 cents there!!!! Also, a fun fact: Seattle has more bookstores per capita than any other city. And also, the most variety of independent bookstores in the country.
Theyhave Waldenbooks here, too. In the mall. Though a Borders is coming to that same mall :/
I have a borders. I used to have a Waldenbooks. Whatever you do, read King of Shadows by Susan Cooper…ITSOOOOOOOGOOOOOD!!
In the Boston-area, I saw a huge Walden Books. I was SOOO jealous…
I already told my library story, but the only bookstore that we go to is Barnes & Noble, which is really close (right next to the library!)
I love used book sales. I have quite a few. You can tell, because their spines are bent. I HATE BENT SPINES AND DOG-EARED PAGES. I’m obsessive about such things. HATE THEM! But I live near a PSU campus (not the main one) and they have many used book sales. w00t. I have some textbooks that I’ve purchaced for $1 each. Yayness.
Borders and Barnes and Noble-die!! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!
Sie Kaftarina-live on forever. Your one-dollar manga bin makes my heart and wallet sing in universal joy.
What was the name of the Canadian bookstore that removed the issue of Harper’s that had the commentary on those oh-so-controversial Mohammed cartoons? Well, they’re awful too.
17- Barnes and Noble is actually a very good store and very ethical in their actions too- they don’t discriminate against GLBTs, they employ progressive practices, they provide humane working conditions,etc. And they have good books, chocolate, and a Starbucks in their stores. what’s not to like?
(18) Barnes and Noble is huge and overpriced and pushes out small independant bookstores, and they have Starbucks in there stores, that’s what’s not to like.
(but hey, I shop there too sometimes, so I shouldn’t talk)
there is a nice bookstore ,but its far away. barnes and noble? its prtty far to, but not as far. not that i usually buy books there. I write down all the titles and get them from the library. the nearest library is small, but its close. and i order most books from the libraries anyway.
I also like the Independant bookstores in woodstock. You’know, the democractic ones? I bought “The Blue Pages” in one, a corporate directory based on buisness politics.
I like Barnes and Noble. At my local one, you can actually get stuff by Mia Ikumi and other manga authors at really good prices.
on my scale borders is worse than barnes and noble which is worse than independant bookstores. I go to the independent and used bookstores in my city. One of my favorite bookstores in Madison Wisconsin (not my city no need to zap, when I went there I was on vacation) and it is called Avol’s. I also like Shakespeare and Company in Paris and Politics and Prose in Washington DC.
18-The fact that they’re a huge chain with about 4% of the books I want? The other fact that they choke (d) out all of the mom-and-pop, or any combination of the two, stores in an area, and suffocate all independent bookstores ever? That they got mad at the guy who stuck all the Bibles in the ‘Fiction’ section? Yeah, I can dislike that.
23-Will you post your scale, Elasse-Adael darling? Thank you!
i got lost for over an hour in a B&N in 4th grade…and those places have scared me ever since. i know, its stupid. but borders is better anyway
There’s some book store in my town called “Here Be Books”. It’s pretty cool. Also, when I was on vacation in Colorado Springs in Colorado, there was this independent bookstore in a outlet mall that was stacked to the ceiling with all sorts of books at cheap prices. I actually got watership down there for like on ly 50 cents!
I think Barnes & Noble is great…the one near our house is nice and small..the Borders is far away and GIANT.
24- that is my scale: (
I prefer the library… but I always have gift cards to places like Borders and Barnes & Noble, so I get a lot there. Wonderful aura for finding books, I tell you. And not too crowded. At least by my house, Plus, the Borders has a piano.
hehe, i work at a library. i think that the librbains are not antirely human, or if they are, they get shot in the arm every morning with a drug that makes them unnaturaly cranky. but they all try to be relatively friendly to me, since i am a volunteer and could in theory just walk out of them.
i could and often do spend all day in bookstores, listening to music and reading things that do not yet belong to me.
and you should put up a Terry Pratchet thread, since you already gave one over to that upstart JK Rowling. he writes like me, but i didnt know it till recently. or maybe i write like him. he is, after all, much older.
My first job was in a library in Old Town Alexandria. I was 14. Every payday I’d stroll a couple of blocks to the Ariel Bookshop on King Street, a tiny one-room place run by a tiny old woman and her cat and crammed from floor to high ceiling with books. I bought complete collections of Coleridge and Byron and Keats, Eliot and Yeats, and New Variorum editions of Shakespeare (thick, sturdy paperbacks that were 90 percent footnotes). The owner loved to talk about Shakespeare, too. “Ah, yes, Measure for Measure. Very dark.”
(The bookstore is long gone. It’s a sandal shop now, I think–sells Birkenstocks and such.)
In Michigan, where my grandparents live, there is an awesome independent bookstore called Bookbeat. It is SO cool. Whenever my aunt takes me out to get a manicure, she always takes me there. That’s where I got my first copy of A Wrinkle In Time. I also got a really cool Margaret Peterson Haddix book called Double Identity.
Hey has anyone ever read
‘Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them’ by Al Franken?
I’m not sure if I should be talking about this on a books thread, or a politics thread, but it is funny with a capital F.
One of the most obnoxious right wingers that I learned about from the book, was Bill O’ Reilly.
Accortding to Al, Bill has a very short fuse, and is prone to screeching fits.
Bill apparently lied about an award that the show ‘C-Span’ which he hosted at one point, won. He claimed the show won two Peabody awards. It turned out it was actually a Paulk (I have no clue if I spelled that right).
And then, after admiting his mistake, he denied that he ever said it.
And, as Bill, Al, and Moly Ivins were all promoting books of theirs, Bill started lying again, to try and cover up his mistake.
“No, no I tried to interject!” – Al Franken to Bill O’ Rielly
“Hey shut up! You had your thirty five minutes! (Al had spoken for twenty) SHUT UP!” – Bill O’ Rielly to Al Franken in front of hundreds of people on TV.
What a jackass.
I could tell you lots more about the obnoxious conservatives in this book, but I don’t wanna spoil it too much.
Go out and buy it today.
Borders rocks the socks off of any other bookstores!!
I LOVE getting gift cards for bookstores.
I can’t deny shopping at Barnes and Noble. Heck, I’m probably worse than everybody here. There’s a half price books right across the street from the B&N. I don’t particularly hate B&N for any reason, but i like to go to local indie (does that apply to bookstores?) places when there are any. There’s some place around here called Penguin Books. I should check it out. I usually use the library to find out which books i would pay money for. I say you haven’t really read a book unless you’ve read it multiple times. And sometimes i’ll read just one chapter of a particuar book spontaniously, so it’s nice to own the books that i like. if there’s anything i hate about B&N, it’s that they charge WAY too much for their coffee and stuff. It’s not like you have to buy it, but it’s still annoying. They know that you’ll probably be hanging out in the bookstore for numerous hours, so you’ll get hungry and they can overprice their edibles. With a name like ‘Here be Books’, it has to be cool, Peace Frog. But i guess i shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
I DEFINATELY prefer the library to bookstores. When I’m in a bookstore, I always bring paper and a pencil, so if I see a book I like I can go across the street and get it from the library.
37 – I do that a lot, too. My budget is limited, so I usually have to get books from the library rather than purchasing my own copies. Fortunately, Louisville has plenty of libraries around with a variety of books. You can usually find what you’re looking for fairly easily.
Louisville doesn’t have a lot of indie bookstores, or rather, it probably does but I’m only aware of a few of them. The two that come to mind right now are Carmichael’s and A Reader’s Corner, both of which are fairly small but usually carry interesting books. Carmichael’s invites authors for book signings sometimes. There’s also a Borders, Barnes & Noble, and a Half-Price Books. I’m not partial to any of those in particular; I’ve shopped at all of them. Normally, I hate shopping, but leave me in a bookstore and I’ll happily spend all day there. If my friends and I go to a movie, we usually end up visiting the nearest bookstore afterwards and spending more time there than in the theater, lol.
One independent bookstore that used to be in Louisville but no longer exists was Hawley-Cooke Booksellers. I practically grew up in that store, but it went out of business a few years ago. All of the people who worked there loved books, the store had books of all genres, and the prices were reasonable. There was even a “designated reading area” in the middle of the store where people could stop and read in the midst of browsing the store. I really miss that place! To my knowledge, the only store was in Louisville, but I could be wrong. Has anyone heard of another Hawley-Cooke opening anywhere?
33- Yeah, I read that book. Highly amusing. But let’s keep the conservative bashing to a minimum here, as it’s not exactly what I’d call “open minded and friendly towards all pools of thought”. (remember why MG left)
i have a bookmark from borders that says SHH! IM TRYING TO READ! on it. i usually put it on the table/desk in front of me when im reading…but then ppl start asking me where i got it. grr…how do you nicely tell a person to shut up (when youre reading)?
I’m volunteeNing at the medical library at the general hospital this summer. w00t. I hope the crazy guys work there againe. They were so funny. We volunteeNs don’t do much at the library, just organize books, find tapes/CDs/DVDs/cassettes/etc. for the residents, fax out copies of articles in medical journals, and laugh at the kids who can’t use the copy machine properly. That last one sounds mean, but, honestly, you type in the number, “100,” and press “COPY”. You do NOT press “COPY” one hundred times. It’s not that hard. Yes, that actually happened. But anyway, there are computers with internet access there that hardly anyone uses, so I will try to post here from the medical library.
37- hahaha I do that too. Though I prefer bookstores, I love both and the library is cheaper.
post 28 got cut off. It should have said “that is my scale (
Huh?
Seems a recent post of mine got bumped off here.
Did I not press the submit button or something?
It was regarding stupid quotes from George W. Bush.
[I zapped it, Cedar. It was off topic. Even on the “Hot Topics” thread, easy Bush-bashing doesn’t help create a very interesting discussion. MuseBloggers decided that months ago. –Robert]
When I’m in Borders and I’m not familiar with a manga series, I stand by the shelf and start reading the first volume to see whether I like it enough to buy it. The staff probably hates me since I usually end up reading one or two whole volumes and then not buying them, lol.
I love reading. Our libraray is fanatstic, and it has lots of good books…who likes John Bellairs?
(40) Casually lay a powerful firearm on the table next to you.
1 w00t daniel pinkwater!
estoy un fanati!
i hav read…
borgel
yobgorgle
hoboken chicken emergency
snarkout boys and baconburg horror
snarkout boys and avacado of death
the srtsy smartsy club
searching for bobowitz
alan mendohnson, the boy from mars
young adult novel
the last guru
once upona blue moose
worms of kukumlima
there
any i hav not read? (by DP)
ah yes.
a bookstore, called books of wonder
has an awesome cupcake place in it(like starbucks in b&n, exept like better. much better)books of wonder is lots better than &n and cupcake cafe is lots better than starbucks
also, near my house = strand.
8 miles of used books. w00t
This discussion is really making me miss “boink0”, a bookstore/book rental in Pismo Beach I used to adore. They had these costumes as well, and I have, from their warehouse:
-an Edie Sedgwick costume
-an Elvis Costello costume
-a pair of Spockesque synthetic ears
-a pair of size eight women’s checker/rainbow/plaid galoshes
-a Marilyn Monroe wig
-a rubber-band boa I bought from a fashion design 0student who happened to be there for fifty dollars. It’s heavy.
-a pair of pink five-inch stiletto shoes that lit up when pressed and had a button that said “Ooh, baby” in a low voice.
I miss So-Cal.
i love libraries. i worked at my school library until i changed schools. (sadly, my current school has no library) but i still volunteer at the public library. we have seriously awesome indie bookstores where i live. there’s this one that sells t-shirts saying keep #$(@*^%@))_ wierd. and they’re pretty big, so they usually have the book i want. i go to borders as an absolute last resort.
50- I desperately want ears like that. I tried to order them online, but my parentw wouldn’t let me use their credit cards, as they thought my request was frivolous.
**parents
A rubber-band boa? *is jealous* I want one of those.
Spockesque ears rock my socks.
(40) I’m going to make myself one of those now. One of my pet peeves it people interrupting me when I’m reading. If it’s a good reason, like the builing is on fire or extra-terrestrials just landed outside and want to talk to me, I don’t mind, but otherwise it drives me insane.
I get to spend all day in a library today!
There is no Borders around here, except in the airport, and you can’t get to that part unless you have a flight. Plus stuff in airports is always prohibitively expensive.
I think I have a Borders around here somewhere…. I just can’t think of where… oh vell… I have a Barnes and Noble though!!! I spend a lot of time in the bookstore… hehe…. I could live in a bookstore….
Recently I’ve been visiting my library and book store alot. I can ride my bike to my library. Its a very nice path to get there and it’s worth it.
has anyone listened to HDM? it’s really well read. also if you haven’t even read it you really should.
HDM? What is that?
His Dark Materials. Phillip Pullman. Excellent stuff.
only thing about librarys:
u hav to return the books.
other than that…
we has no book store in town. the nearest one is an hour and a half away. :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
OMG i hav fallen in love w/ Greagory Maguire’s works…..
Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (which by the way has been made into a musical, winning numerous awards including 3 tonys and the grammy),
Son of a Witch, the kinda sorta not really sequel to Wicked,
Confesions of an Ugly Stepsister (funny!),
Mirror Mirror,
and Lost, which i havent yet gotten my hands on.
funny. the cd audio recording of wicked is twenty hrs long… and i read the book in a little over five hrs. :roll:but seriously! the guy read it like this:
the…….. witch……….. flew………….. to………………………..
such–and–such………… a………….. place
no wonder it was 20 hrs!!!!!! booooooring. raised sum iteresting points though. also suggested that Elphie (the witch) was the daughter of the wizard….. ?! and she was the best friend of Glinda the Good in colledge…. veeeeeeery strange. quite dramatic at the end… i cried wen the witch died, which according to the book was the result of three sleepless nights, a firey broom, and an innocent little bucket of water. sigh…. it also explains the reasons for the lion’s cowardice, the orgins of the tin man, the two wicked witches, Nessarose (witch of the east)and Elphaba (EL-fa-ba is the pronunciation – derived from the author of the wizard of oz’s initials, L-F-B. Elphaba), Elphie’s backround, her relationship with Glinda the Good, and so on. goooooooooood book that i could rave on about for hrs (but I will spare you.)
so pretty much wicked is the wicked witch of the west,
son of a witch is the witches son
confessions is the ugly stepsister of cinderella
mirror mirror is snow white, of sorts, in italy or somewhere in 1502…
oh goodness thats longer than I expected.
has anyone read the other pp books?
46- I do. When I was twelve or so I read those all the time. I still like them (and the Brad Strickland ones) though I don’t read them as often anymore.
62- I like Wicked but I haven’t read any of the other books. I’m thinking of reading Son of a Witch though.
*gasp* ♥ ♥ ♥
Yes, Ebeth is back. All hail.
I miss Schulers. I never bought much there. But i miss it anyway.
Barnes+Nobles is cool. I like the big one at Easton. They have very comfy chairs.
But bookstores aren’t for buying books. Crazy idea. No, they’re for sitting around and reading the “merchandise” and getting glares from various salespeople. Occasionally you buy something good.
OMG there’s this AMAZING little bookstore downtown i think it’s by katzinger’s but mebbe i made that up. it’s 32 teeny little rooms stuffed full of books. It is incredible. You can get lost so easily. See the key is lose your parents. Then they can’t leave without you, right? Plenty of time that way.
Aside from the columbus library being about 5 min. away in a car, there’s a library about half a mile away that’s pretty sweet and has a lot of good books. And movies. We never go to blockbuster anymore, you can get everything free from the library. (You do have to be 16+ to check them out though.
but that’s ok)
So yeah. Plus we own a lot of good books. I’m happy. Squee!!!
Heeheehee I read merchandise all the time without buying it. But I don’t destroy the spines or dogear the pages or anything because that would be EVILLE!!!!
I know what you mean skipper. I hate it when people fold the corners down!!! If you can’t remember where you left off, get a bookmark! Grr!
Yeah, it’s weeeeeeeeeeird. I hate when people dog-ear the pages, but I can’t help doing it myslef.
44.
Rats.
Oh well, too bad.
It’s so much fun to make fun of him.
Oh well.
our library is walking distance.
they need to get more thick books that actually are good reading…. anything good i finish in a matter of minutes. *sigh*
O_o
66-Mine do leave without me. Like today-I came home from a party and there were separate notes from each member of the family, explaining where they were, telling me what was in the fridge six times, and asking where the zark the other family membs were. I’m being healthy and exercising while I’m doing this. Typing. On my Dvorak keyboard, for once. I can use both, but Dvorak is my homeland and I heart it.
69-If you ever do that to one of my books, I will personally be very nasty to you and call you a whinging sack of parrot droppings. But it’s all right, Kiki-we heart you anyway.
70-“Oh, I can’t believe it
When people are strange
The president’s crazy
Did you hear what he said?” Identify the quote and get 42 hot pink bunny points.
72- I sympathize. Do your parents ever go out of town and forget to tell you?
Me: *looks at clock* *wonders where everyone is* *calls dad*
Dad: Oh yeah. Ummm, Mum’s at work, Abby’s got a study session and….I’m in Washington DC.
Me: Oh. That’s nice to know.
My parents always threaten to, but never do. Which is really a bother when you’re trying to get out of doing something.
Well it depends…
In Grinnell, the library is about a half-hour walk from my house. They need to build a new one, though, and not enough people voter for it. We don’t have any good bookstores, but there is at least one Border and Barnes&Noble within driving distance. An indipendant bookstore called Prarie Lights has a good selection. (And three floors.)
In Hilo, we have to drive to the library. There is a Borders in town by the mall and *shudders* Wal-Mart. There used to be a Waldenbooks, but Borders got most of the business, and it was replace by a Christian bookstore.
I am staying in California on my way back to Iowa. The have one of those awsome and froody bookstors that sells both new and used books.
In terms of bookstores, I prefer indipendant bookstores with cozy winding coridors where I can hide and read untill my dad comes to get me. I wil however be flexible, and long as they have books…
72-I wish. Mine hang around and annoy me to no end. *sigh*
I just got a few Rumpole paperbacks and a Rock Encyclopedia. I gotta tell you, I only bring paperbacks when I travel. They’re lighter, easier, and less painful to lose or destroy.
ahhhhhhhh! i hate it when people dogear books. especially poor, mistraeted library books. and hwen people write in textbooks….
I hate it when people write in textbooks…
-late-
I like my Borders because they hire awesome people. Although I never see goth man in his goth suit anymore. Sigh. In any case it’s a nice place.
I liked this one place in San Luis Obispo when I went there for vacation, but I forget the name. Huh.
75- my brother’s actually staying there over the summer- he got a MAP. he did come home for a week or so to visit us, though. of course, that was during the week I was at camp…
Sorry, I don’t know the source of the quote.
A smart liberal someone no doubt.
Which quote?
79- And when they hi-lite them! THE EVILLE!
The quote is posted at number 72.
Can anyone identify it?
I think about four people will. It’s not a smart liberal, it’s a man whom many people thought subclinically neurotic-as a psychiatrist would say, stark staring bonkers. A certain person who interviewed. Himself.
I just packed my selection of books for camp. Alastair Reynolds, mucho Heinlein, mas Rumpole, a couple miscellaneous Dune chronicles, and my uncut version of Stranger In A Strange Land, with the charming blue cover.
The library in my town is really teeny, like, two rooms, but they have really good books there but its not good to go there if you’re looking for a book, because they probably dont have it. ANIME ROCKS!!!!! (wow, that was totally random)
i have to read pride & prejudice this summer! *moans*
Ebeth, Axa, and Kricket all like P&P. And for dessert, you can read Polly Shulman’s book Enthusiasm.
Isthere any town besides woodsovk (aka hippitoown NY) that has small, dmeocractic bookstores, selling micheal moore and bush-bashing books? Man, I luff those…..
88- Don’t worry. It’s a phantastique book. Seriously. It’s full of subtle humor, satire. And it’s pretty easy to get used to the language.
I just finished Emma which was fun. Much more complicated than P&P. All so satisfying, and clever.
#89: oh, yeah, youre funny. *moans again*
#91: the thing is, most of the books you guys rave about are books that ive already attempted reading – and then quit after the first page or so. sure, i read muse, but im not the “super-smart” stereotype.
92, emogrl- see, the thing about P&P is that it isn’t boring, and it isn’t all soppy-romantic because the main character, Elizabeth, is so wonderfully sarcastic and snarky. And I love Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine- they’re so.. over the top and wonderful.
emogrl- Sure, you’re smart. You just have different tastes in literature!
92- Yeah I’m sure it probably is hard to get in to. I’ve never actually read the whole thing but I’ve seen excerpts of it and things like it. The story is a good one and it is a good book. Just hard to get into at first.
90: i live in a town with a bookshop that sell bush countdown clocks.
you guys are so lucky that you have big book stores nearby.
I live in a pretty small town in Wyoming so the library is small and pretty far away from where we live. We only have 2 small bookshops and a used bookstore, and out of the ones we have most sell adult books. I’m not complaining, it’s just that it would be nice to have a better selection.
anyway,have you been in the denver library? its like a skyscraper. its amazing
Well, I guess I’ll comment on this thread.
There’s nothing I love more than going to the library (Except maybe swimming. And I love going to church. And I think hanging out with my friends is slightly higher on this list. Plus hanging out on the internet. Okay, so there are about fifty billiion things that I love more than going to the library, but you have to allow me some poetic license.) I love going through stacks and stacks of books, remembering recommendations from my brother or friends, pausing over authors I recognize, trying to cut my stack down to the books I could reasonably expect to read before they’re due again… It’s so awesome.
Lately I’ve been reading some interesting books. I just finished “The Screwtape Letters” and “The Abolition of Man”, both by C.S. Lewis. They were awesome books. I’m right in the middle of “This Present Darkness”, by Frank Peretti. Have any of you ever heard of that book? I’ve heard about it most of my life, but I’ve never read it. I’m also perusing “The Runaway Jury” by John Grisham.
After I’m done with those books I’m planning to start on LotR. I’m also hoping to indulge in some of Dickens this summer, read some new books by some of my favorite authors (Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti), and jump back into “Don Quixote”. If I have any time at all left, I’m going to return to my literary “comfort food” of Austen, L.M. Montgomery, and some Twain. Of course there’s the staple of reading my Bible, and I’m definitely going to seek out some more of Lewis’s writings. All in all I’ve got kind of a packed summer reading wise.
emogrl- Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors, but I just have that kind of sense of humor. Her writing style has all the elements I love in a book- subtle and sarcastic humor, satire, just the right amount of hinting to help us see the ridiculousness of a situation, intricate story lines, insightful character studies, a wonderful way of using words, etc. There’s nothing wrong with you if you don’t like her, you just look for different things in a books.
Our libraries are awesome. Most of them were built by Andrew Carnegie (well, he didn’t actually build them, but…). He didn’t want his children to have all his money, he wanted them to have to work for it, just like he did, so he donated all his money to the making of libraries and museums. So, all our museums and libraries are called, “The Carnegie Library/Carnegie Museum”
Carnegie Mellon?
S. Melpomene, that’s a college. I want to read the The Screwtape Letters, but i have’t gotten around to it. I went to the Penguin place (if anybody remembers what I’m talking about) and i must say, it was pretty pitiful. It had a teeny selection of new releases only. It did have a used section, but they didn’t have anything good at the time. Oh well. It’s back to B&N for me.
My fantasy is to work in the Library of Congress.
Every single book that ever got an American copyright……..it makes me feel all giddy inside.
Our library has nothing. The Young Adult section is totally Meg Cabot-ized. And the children’s side is way too short. It makes me want to cry.
Well yeah, there’s Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), but that’s not what I was talking about.
and Carnegie Hall..
yes, of course…
Discworld qwns. Yes, I said QWNS. NOT PWNS.
all ive read of discworld is wee free men and its sequel. im planning to read the series though.
I read a book called Shade’s Children on Pike’s peak. Has anyone read it?> Garth Nix.
I’m in a library right now and it’s about to close. Bye y’all!!!