I received my books from Jason at Second Chance Book Adoption today and I must say, I was so very pleasantly surprised. Not only did I get 4 books in beautiful like new condition, but three of them were signed by the authors! Went back and looked at past books I bought from him and 2 of the Chuck Palahniuk books were signed as well. Today I got Someplace to be Flying, signed by Charles DeLint, Girl in Landscape, signed by Jonathan Lethem, and Lullaby signed by Chuck Palahniuk. Good deals.
Speaking of books, Neil Gaiman posted a couple of links to DreamHaven's bookstore website and I found so much cool stuff that I want to buy now! But we're moving in a couple of weeks, so I'll wait until the new address is being lived in. In their "New and Noteworthy" section, they have a story of Ray Bradbury's entitled The Homecoming that is fully illustrated in color by Dave McKean for $14.95, and Gene Wolfe and Lisa Snellings-Clarks Strange Birds for $10.00 (Save me a copy of these two ;) Strange Birds comes signed by Gene Wolfe and Lisa if you request a signed copy. The Sale section has some great deals too, one of which is Yoshitaka Amano's Hero Vol. 1, hardcover for $12.00. I hope these don't all sell out. Dream Haven was apparently broken into a couple of nights ago, and they really need the extra business. So support them!
Speaking of Lisa, I got the second part of my ebay order, another little red poppet, in the mail today. Goes well with my other one, yet unique in it's own way.
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Yeah I bought more books....
I really need to stop this buying of books. At least for now. My "to be read" list sitting next to my bed has gotten to about 15 books tall. But I hit up Second Chance Book Adoption again today. Some great books on there. Get them now, because I'm pretty sure he said the site is going down soon. Great deals. Here's what I got:
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Sock by Penn Jillette
Someplace to be Flying by Charles De Lint
I'm very excited about the DeLint. I've never read any of his books and I hear people talk about him all the time. Looking forward to it!
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Sock by Penn Jillette
Someplace to be Flying by Charles De Lint
I'm very excited about the DeLint. I've never read any of his books and I hear people talk about him all the time. Looking forward to it!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I want the snow!
So this winter weather sweep is taking over everywhere but Louisiana. Well ok, northern Louisiana but do they really count? Even Texas has frozenness. Megan reported to me earlier that it looks like a winter wonderland in College Station, and even though it has not snowed, everything is frozen and there's icicles all over. When is it our turn? It never snows here. Except for Christmas day 2 years ago of course.
The logic of Louisiana says that the Saints will in fact not only play in the Superbowl, but will win. Why, you ask. Well..good things happen in threes. Wait a minute, scratch that. THINGS happen in threes. #1 - 2004 - snows on Christmas day in New Orleans. #2 - 2005 - biggest natural disaster (Katrina) in the history of the U.S. hits New Orleans. Duh #3 - 2006(7) - SAINTS WIN THE SUPERBOWL. Logical, neh?
So back to the snow...despite thoroughly enjoying the internship more and more, I would love to have a "snow day" (whatever that is) here in New Orleans and just lay in bed all day and read really good books. Speaking of books, I'm plugging Second Chance Book Adoption again. The guy who runs it is great. I received my books (already) yesterday! Not only did I get the 8 books I ordered, but he threw in 2 extra ones and a card as well! How awesome. And he's just listed some new titles. According to his blog, there is a reason for selling these books. #1 - He's moving to Singapore and it would be very expensive to ship all of these there. #2 - He's recently been practicing Buddhism and of course, Buddhism aims at not holding on to material possessions (at the least, not a plethora of them). So support this guy. It's a great cause any way you look at it!
I think that's all I have to say right now. I'm sure I'll think of something later. A little delirious here if you can't tell. Ooh, just thought of something. I'm very excited because I'm waiting on the DVD set of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere to come in the mail. I ordered it from eBay and am also expecting an electric shaver (finally) and a brand new watch :) Neverwhere was originally made as a TV show and was shown on A&E a long time ago and was THEN made into a book. And a great book I might add. So I'll post a review of it as soon as I get it and check it out. That's all.
The logic of Louisiana says that the Saints will in fact not only play in the Superbowl, but will win. Why, you ask. Well..good things happen in threes. Wait a minute, scratch that. THINGS happen in threes. #1 - 2004 - snows on Christmas day in New Orleans. #2 - 2005 - biggest natural disaster (Katrina) in the history of the U.S. hits New Orleans. Duh #3 - 2006(7) - SAINTS WIN THE SUPERBOWL. Logical, neh?
So back to the snow...despite thoroughly enjoying the internship more and more, I would love to have a "snow day" (whatever that is) here in New Orleans and just lay in bed all day and read really good books. Speaking of books, I'm plugging Second Chance Book Adoption again. The guy who runs it is great. I received my books (already) yesterday! Not only did I get the 8 books I ordered, but he threw in 2 extra ones and a card as well! How awesome. And he's just listed some new titles. According to his blog, there is a reason for selling these books. #1 - He's moving to Singapore and it would be very expensive to ship all of these there. #2 - He's recently been practicing Buddhism and of course, Buddhism aims at not holding on to material possessions (at the least, not a plethora of them). So support this guy. It's a great cause any way you look at it!
I think that's all I have to say right now. I'm sure I'll think of something later. A little delirious here if you can't tell. Ooh, just thought of something. I'm very excited because I'm waiting on the DVD set of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere to come in the mail. I ordered it from eBay and am also expecting an electric shaver (finally) and a brand new watch :) Neverwhere was originally made as a TV show and was shown on A&E a long time ago and was THEN made into a book. And a great book I might add. So I'll post a review of it as soon as I get it and check it out. That's all.
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