Bibliophile
Jun. 17th, 2005 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingI'm an idiot who puts her foot in things, but my little sister's clever, & capable of forming very sensible opinions. I'm so proud of her. (Is that reference to your federation essay I see there? *grins*)
S--- and I went to Reader's Feast bookshop's Privileged Reader Night. This was were all the people in their Privileged Reader program (it's a free signup) were invited to come and shop from 6-9. They had a string quartet playing, wine (S---- informs me that it was quite nice), tea and coffee (dodgy tea, but there was a kettle so I made some Formosan) and nibblies. Instead of the usual 10% of your purchase going to the book voucher they give you twice a year, it was 20%. And they had a competition you could enter (for free) to win $500 worth of books. And if you bought anything that night, they gave you a free book (from a selection of four). I got Monique Truong's the book of salt; S---- got Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year that Rocked the World.
Much book-buying was had. S---- bought Rebecca Wells's Ya-Yas in Bloom, a book I didn't even know existed until I discovered it on the shelves last night. I bought a copy of ABR (the Australian Book Review) which was mentioned in the class discussion panel last night in Editing, because I like those sort of magazines, & want to get a good handle on the industry. I also bought the new Phryne Fisher book, by Kerry Greenwood: Death by Water (Fisher books are my crack); Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Novel, which was also mentioned in the discussion panel, and which I am informed is excellent; Syrup by Max Barry (it's spelt Maxx on the the cover for a joke, the author says, which no-one got), who wrote Jennifer Government. It's one of those books I've been looking for for about three years and have never seen it, so there was no chance I was not going to get it. I also got Misfortune, by Wesley Stace, which I'd never heard of before, but which had an interesting cover and an even more interesting blurb (the book was described as "[...] an England at once as believable as Sarah Waters' and as grotesque as Mervyn Peake's[...]", which sold me). I'm a firm believer in buying the occasional book I've never heard of before that looks interesting. It's how I got my copy of Will Self's Dorian (which admittedly I haven't finished), and Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian, which I have, and which is awesome. This goes for non-fiction as well - though I didn't pick any up last night. I really bought slightly more than my budget could afford, but I've just picked up a new shift this Sunday, which makes it all OK.
Ah, books. You make everything shiny and bright.
Stupid post. Don't just sit there for two hours! Do something!
Here. Something for the Star Wars fans & Star Wars slashers. Tripod - Everyone's in Love.
S--- and I went to Reader's Feast bookshop's Privileged Reader Night. This was were all the people in their Privileged Reader program (it's a free signup) were invited to come and shop from 6-9. They had a string quartet playing, wine (S---- informs me that it was quite nice), tea and coffee (dodgy tea, but there was a kettle so I made some Formosan) and nibblies. Instead of the usual 10% of your purchase going to the book voucher they give you twice a year, it was 20%. And they had a competition you could enter (for free) to win $500 worth of books. And if you bought anything that night, they gave you a free book (from a selection of four). I got Monique Truong's the book of salt; S---- got Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year that Rocked the World.
Much book-buying was had. S---- bought Rebecca Wells's Ya-Yas in Bloom, a book I didn't even know existed until I discovered it on the shelves last night. I bought a copy of ABR (the Australian Book Review) which was mentioned in the class discussion panel last night in Editing, because I like those sort of magazines, & want to get a good handle on the industry. I also bought the new Phryne Fisher book, by Kerry Greenwood: Death by Water (Fisher books are my crack); Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Novel, which was also mentioned in the discussion panel, and which I am informed is excellent; Syrup by Max Barry (it's spelt Maxx on the the cover for a joke, the author says, which no-one got), who wrote Jennifer Government. It's one of those books I've been looking for for about three years and have never seen it, so there was no chance I was not going to get it. I also got Misfortune, by Wesley Stace, which I'd never heard of before, but which had an interesting cover and an even more interesting blurb (the book was described as "[...] an England at once as believable as Sarah Waters' and as grotesque as Mervyn Peake's[...]", which sold me). I'm a firm believer in buying the occasional book I've never heard of before that looks interesting. It's how I got my copy of Will Self's Dorian (which admittedly I haven't finished), and Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian, which I have, and which is awesome. This goes for non-fiction as well - though I didn't pick any up last night. I really bought slightly more than my budget could afford, but I've just picked up a new shift this Sunday, which makes it all OK.
Ah, books. You make everything shiny and bright.
Stupid post. Don't just sit there for two hours! Do something!
Here. Something for the Star Wars fans & Star Wars slashers. Tripod - Everyone's in Love.