I went to Borders yesterday to buy my books for the plane - one for the way there, one for the way back. (Trust me, one book won't last me a round trip, even from Philly to Vegas.)
And I did not get the HBP book. Eventually I decided the chore of lugging the damn thing around wasn't worth it.
(I _did_ read the first 80 pages, though. So Harry just got to the Weasleys where I stopped.)
I ended up buying one book that I knew I'd get all along - Return Engagement: Settling Accounts, by Harry Turtledove. It's one of those extra-large paperbacks, about the size of a box of microwave pizza. This is the ninth book in a series, and I have the first eight at home, so it was basically a must.
I considered buying Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison on![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1)
mooncatx recommendation, but instead I went with Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, by Mary Jean Meeker (I think that's right). It's a memoir of the author's relationship with Patricia Highsmith, the woman who wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley. I heard the author interviewed on NPR a couple years ago, and I've always wanted to read it. I figure, I'm sharing a room with a bunch of femslashers, when would a better time be?
I'll read DWW another time :)
Oh, and I stopped at a comic shop too. 55% off ALL back issues, so I worked on my Catwoman collection some more. Got issues 0-4, 8-9, and 12. I now have 29 issues from the Balent era. Great art, even when the stories are stupid. Normally it would have been $34, but I got them for $16. I refuse to buy new issues of any DC title, however, until they set things right with Poison Ivy. I still read #83 and 84 of Birds of Prey, but DC canNOT have any more of my $$$.
Sincerely, Allaine
And I did not get the HBP book. Eventually I decided the chore of lugging the damn thing around wasn't worth it.
(I _did_ read the first 80 pages, though. So Harry just got to the Weasleys where I stopped.)
I ended up buying one book that I knew I'd get all along - Return Engagement: Settling Accounts, by Harry Turtledove. It's one of those extra-large paperbacks, about the size of a box of microwave pizza. This is the ninth book in a series, and I have the first eight at home, so it was basically a must.
I considered buying Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison on
mooncatx recommendation, but instead I went with Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, by Mary Jean Meeker (I think that's right). It's a memoir of the author's relationship with Patricia Highsmith, the woman who wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley. I heard the author interviewed on NPR a couple years ago, and I've always wanted to read it. I figure, I'm sharing a room with a bunch of femslashers, when would a better time be?I'll read DWW another time :)
Oh, and I stopped at a comic shop too. 55% off ALL back issues, so I worked on my Catwoman collection some more. Got issues 0-4, 8-9, and 12. I now have 29 issues from the Balent era. Great art, even when the stories are stupid. Normally it would have been $34, but I got them for $16. I refuse to buy new issues of any DC title, however, until they set things right with Poison Ivy. I still read #83 and 84 of Birds of Prey, but DC canNOT have any more of my $$$.
Sincerely, Allaine
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