Tuesday, 24 February 2009

• Currently The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet) By Stephen King see related

  Once I dreamed I lived in a library

  and when I woke up and found that it was only half-true, I cried.
  Just kidding.
  Seriously, though, who doesn't love books? (psst--that's a rhetorical question. Please don't answer it.)
  The problem is when I go book-shopping even if I start out with a set list I end up buying whatever catches my eye. Half the time that's because it would have been on my list if I had remembered*, but still...it's so hard to resist temptation in the form of a shiny new book (even if that shiny new book is actually a ragged old book**).
  Which might explain why I am running out of space on my <cough>actuallyElizabeth's</cough> bookshelf.
  
  I also have two or three shoeboxes full of other books, such as all my James Herriot and Tolkien, as well as some other classics and, I think, some poetry.
  AND I WANT MORE.
  Because I'm a greedy pig.
  
  Recently I have been studying (muscles), reading (the Stand by Stephen King), crocheting, (this:)
  
  And, um, that's about it. Unless you count attempting to assist Bliz with her writing by "inspiring" her with a library book (well, more importantly, its back cover):
  
  Because I have a tendency to lurk around and bug her when she's trying to do schoolwork.
  Now I really ought to go study muscles some more, because in a little less than twenty-four hours I shall be taking a test on them. The horrors. I think I know them pretty well, though. I just need to memorize their functions***.
  
  So, here I go.
  Leaving now.
  Bye.
  ...
  Really finishing.
  
  Ttfn everyone
  ~Hannahgeorge
  
       *And half the time it wouldn't have occurred to me to look at all. Example: I was going to look at the manga section, which, logically, was in the same part of the store as the comic section. I thought, idly, "I wonder if they have any comics written by Neil Gaiman. Next thing I knew, I was organizing the entire "S" section in an attempt to figure out how many consecutive Sandman comics I could find^. I found seven that went together, and were particularly good^^:
      
       I like 'em. This specific arc is about Dream (aka Morpheus aka the Sandman) and Delirium (his little sister) looking for Destruction (their brother). Delirium looks particularly Tori Amos-like in parts of this story line:
      
       Not that any of y'all care.
  
       **Unless that ragged old book has writing in it. By all that is good and literate, DO NOT WRITE IN BOOKS. Unless you're the author. I suppose you can write a note if you're giving it as a gift, but bear in mind that someday the person to whom you are giving the book might sell it to Half Price Books and people will be opening and reading^^^ your note.
  
       ***And their spelling. And several other things. <sigh>
  
            ^ And which ones were, you know, readable°.
  
            ^^ I mean, #7 has a human heart on it. How could it not be awesome?
           
            Having just said that, I realized I don't remember what that particular issue is about.
  
            ^^^ And possibly resenting.
  
                 °Readable here meaning "not containing inordinate amounts of sex, violence, or other disturbing things".
  

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