Bookchik

I got in a discussion with a customer after work about books that repulsed us so much that we did "x" with them.  I've borrowed books from the store that I then had to pay for because they hit the wall so hard I damaged them.  (Celestine Prophecy, for one).

I decided that American Psycho was my most extreme reaction.  I threw it in the trash about half way through.  And buried it in food scraps, ashes, etc. so no one else would be tempted to recover it.

My customer/friend says she put Where the Red Fern Grows in her freezer about 10 years ago and it's still there along with a few other books.  Not sure what's up there...maybe some sort of containment theory.

Reading both Memories of My Melancholy Whores and Iron Council right now (neither of which will end up in the freezer) with a splash of Entertainment Weekly.

Freezer.  That's messed up. 

I mean, where do you put your ice cubes after a year?

...which, if I was less sleepy, I'd post to the 50bookchallenge.

Motel LIfe  was excellent.  I will be buying the music of Richmond Fontaine from Plan 9 very shortly.

'Cause I feel a need to wallow.

Seriously, a clean bunch o prose.  Reminds me of a John Doe song. 

If you like John Doe, you'll like this book.  And, hey, Meet John Doe is the only Christmas movie I watch every year.

Meanwhile, if another 75 year old customer comes in and asks for the pornographic connect-the-dots section, I may need to immolate myself.

I love my job.

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Falling a bit behind already as I'm rereading China Mieville's trilogy for the 50bookchallenge

Finishing The Scar this morning. The ending was so acute and piercing it made me cry. I walked outside into the first snow of the new year. Doesn't get more beautiful than that in this reading life.

One happy bookseller at work today, remembering what it's all about.

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Just started with LJ and have posted a couple of entries. I mainly joined to get updates from bas_lag the China Mieville community. And then I happened upon 50bookchallenge.

I like a challenge.

Here's my first posting there:

Just signed on to LiveJournal today. No idea what I'm doing.

However, I've been a bookseller for 17 years and I do know a bit about that.

I'll be posting mainly upcoming releases as that's what I'm reading. We get preview copies. Hopefully that will give the community some things to look forward to (or avoid).

Just read:
Zig Zag - Somoza, Jose Carlos

Coming from Rayo press in April.

Scared the pants off me! Good stuff!

Then I found the HTML for this nifty counter thingy...

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