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masterofmidgets) wrote2009-04-10 09:42 pm
masterofmidgets) wrote2009-04-10 09:42 pm
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Books, Books, Books
It's probably pretty telling that my idea of a fun evening out is spending three hours at the bookstore, but what the hell, I had a good time anyway. And I really needed to get off-campus for a little while.
My aunt sent me an Easter card with a check for a hundred dollars in it (thank you!), and I figured it would be remiss of me to spend it on some grown-up and practical, like groceries, so I decided to go on a minor book-and-comic buying binge. I love just the physical act of being in a bookstore - being surrounded by all those words, all those ideas, the weight and the smell of them, it's almost overwhelming. Give me a big enough bookstore, and I could spend the rest of my life there. So yeah, it was a fun three hours, camping out in different corners and reading stuff.
The Borders in Palo Alto has a pretty decent collection of comics TPBs, for being a bookstore and not a comic book store. However, I have a fairly extensive list of things I won't buy under any circumstances, which includes:
In the end, I bought volume 4 and 7 of Marvel Adventures: Avengers, because that book continues to be better than 95% of what Marvel's putting out right now, plus 7 is the infamous "Steve and Tony fight telemarketers and go on a date" book. So I had to have that. I also got a Juliet Marillier book, Daughter of the Forest. I read it a few years ago and really loved it - it's a reworking of the myth about the girl who has to make shirts from nettles to cure her brothers of being swans, with some pretty solid early English/Irish scholarship and some really good world-building. It should be a lot of fun to read again.
Finished the evening by treating myself to gelato: half chocolate carmello crunch, half honey lavendar. Sounds a bit odd, I know, but truly that was a match made in heaven. OMG SO GOOD OM NOM NOM.
My aunt sent me an Easter card with a check for a hundred dollars in it (thank you!), and I figured it would be remiss of me to spend it on some grown-up and practical, like groceries, so I decided to go on a minor book-and-comic buying binge. I love just the physical act of being in a bookstore - being surrounded by all those words, all those ideas, the weight and the smell of them, it's almost overwhelming. Give me a big enough bookstore, and I could spend the rest of my life there. So yeah, it was a fun three hours, camping out in different corners and reading stuff.
The Borders in Palo Alto has a pretty decent collection of comics TPBs, for being a bookstore and not a comic book store. However, I have a fairly extensive list of things I won't buy under any circumstances, which includes:
- Anything with "Crisis" in the title
- Anything with "Civil War" or "Secret Invasion" in the title
- Anything Ultimate that isn't Spiderman or Colossus
- Anything where Cap is an asshole
- Anything about Hal Jordan
- Anything about the Batfamily that isn't mostly about Dick or Tim
- Anything with Art by Liefield or Land
- Anything by Peter David
- Anything where bad or stupid things happen to Bart Allen
In the end, I bought volume 4 and 7 of Marvel Adventures: Avengers, because that book continues to be better than 95% of what Marvel's putting out right now, plus 7 is the infamous "Steve and Tony fight telemarketers and go on a date" book. So I had to have that. I also got a Juliet Marillier book, Daughter of the Forest. I read it a few years ago and really loved it - it's a reworking of the myth about the girl who has to make shirts from nettles to cure her brothers of being swans, with some pretty solid early English/Irish scholarship and some really good world-building. It should be a lot of fun to read again.
Finished the evening by treating myself to gelato: half chocolate carmello crunch, half honey lavendar. Sounds a bit odd, I know, but truly that was a match made in heaven. OMG SO GOOD OM NOM NOM.
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Used bookstores are seriously the coolest thing ever. :D
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