It seems that someone diverted me away from my plan to not buy any more books this month. I was sitting at home minding my business when all of a sudden my phone rang. Two friends informed me that they were heading over to Barnes and Noble and that I should meet them. I suddenly found myself in my car with my hand moving the gear into drive and my foot pressing down on the gas pedal...my mind guiding me on that oh so familiar drive to the bookstore. I awakened in that familiar place filled with books. My eyes fell upon John Connolly's Book of Lost Things with a 50% off tag on it and at the same time it remembered that my member card would give me an additional 10% off. John Connolly's Book of Lost things hovered into my arms. I was not surprised to then find myself at the Sci-fi/fantasy section. Hmm, what would I find there but Wizards, a new collection that I have been looking forward to which collects never before published tales by authors of the likes of Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Garth Nix, Peter Beagle, Gene Wolfe, etc, etc, etc. Into my arms it goes. As I hover towards the elevator I spot Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi on sale for $5.98 and remember that I have to read that for the Newberry Challenge. Yep, in the arms. As I scan the psychology section upstairs I come across a book that seems to call to me that is entitled Adult Children of Alcoholics. Simple enough title. I scan through the book and find myself in it's pages. This may be important. I buy it. It will help me, it will help my clients. That's enough, I decide. The cashier steals my American Express, I lose money but gain books...everyone wins in the end!
Here's some more bookporn for Quixotic:
Speaking of
Quixotic, she seems to be the "it girl" of blog land lately. I've noticed two mentions of her on the
Friends of English Magic website in the past couple of weeks (the same FoEM that Neil Gaiman often mentions in his blog) and
Carl's latest post has quite a few Quix wannabe's (me included) in the comments section. We all love her poppet paired with book photos!
In fact, part of the reason that I changed the header of my blog was because I wanted to copy off of Quix :p
Quix and
Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings both recently changed their headers and I love them both. So I decided to change mine as well. Mine is taken from one of my favorite Dave McKean pieces. The full version is shown below and is actually the wallpaper on my laptop.
Speaking of Quixotic, she seems to be the "it girl" of blog land lately. I've noticed two mentions of her on the Friends of English Magic website in the past couple of weeks (the same FoEM that Neil Gaiman often mentions in his blog) and Carl's latest post has quite a few Quix wannabe's (me included) in the comments section. We all love her poppet paired with book photos!
