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[stoutfellow]

To lighten my mood, I made the promised trip to Piece of Mind. Since my Amazon raid on Saturday netted no fiction, I decided to restrict my purchases this time to nothing but. I bought:

• Fool Moon, by Jim Butcher, the second of the Dresden Files books.


• High Five, by Janet Evanovich - yet more Stephanie Plum.


• The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde: I've enjoyed the Thursday Next books, so I thought I'd try his other series.


• A thick volume of poetry by Robert Browning. (I already have one such, but I ask you: how can you title your book The Works of Browning and not include "Rabbi Ben Ezra"?) (I made sure that this one did have it.)


• Cyrano de Bergerac, complete with a DVD of the 1950 film (which I already have on tape, but what the heck).


• CateGorey, by - guess! (I love his drawings, and I don't have anywhere near enough of them.)

Some people eat ice cream. I buy books. It works.

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Some people eat ice cream. I buy books.

You say this as if the two were somehow mutually exclusive and new book + pint of Häagen Dazs ≠ HEAVEN ON EARTH.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Eating ice cream and buying books are mutually exclusive, unless your booksellers are unusually tolerant.

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, books...

I really ought to see the 1950 version. I've been re-reading the play. After that it's a chore to keep my prose ... prosaic.

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

"The Big Over Easy, by Jasper Fforde: I've enjoyed the Thursday Next books, so I thought I'd try his other series."

Like with the Thursday Next books, I thought the first was all right, but the second was a great improvement. "The Fourth Bear" was hilarious.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I saw The Fourth Bear at the store; if I like the first one, I'll probably pick that one up the next time I visit.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Every time I see the name Jim Butcher, I think Jon Butcher. Slightly different.

[filkferengi]

I saw that "Cyrano" on the local PBS when I was about 12 & imprinted on it intensely [might explain one of those French degrees]. You should've told me you were interested in it; that's one of the ones I recorded on the dvd recorder just last month, & I could've sent you a copy. We have TCM, AMC, & Fox Movie Channel, as well as HBO, so I can make you a dvd of almost anything on there.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

No, actually, I was only interested in buying the book. It just happened to have the DVD as a bonus. (I also get TCM, AMC, and the entire suite of HBO/MAX/SHO/TMC channels, and I have a DVD recorder.)

[filkferengi]

So, should I be having you record SHO/TMC stuff for me? ;)

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Also Starz, Flix, Encore, Sundance, or IFC, if you like.

[filkferengi]

Argh! Not that I've any way of finding out what's on [our local paper doesn't even list channels we actually *get*], but thanks for the offer.

P. S. For a good time call...

[filkferengi]

If you haven't already, you should see the Joan Plowright movies, "Enchanted April" on HBO & "Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont" on TMC.