Books, books & more books.

This weekend I had a small bit of success in the fact that I remembered where my Earthsea books were! I lied in bed on Saturday, thinking about how Shelfari wouldn't let me put the word "nipples" in my book review of Fruit - about a boy who thinks his nipples are talking to him. Then it hit me, a polaroid in my mind of me holding Fruit and finding my Earthsea books and then I remembered the box in the closet. Such a good thing to wake up to!

When I dug out the books though, I was sad to realize that I had the first book in mass market, the other three in paperback. Yes, three. Apparently I did read the forth book and after I read the back cover again I remembered how very much I liked it! I felt a bit ashamed at having forgotten about reading it but I was reading so much at that time (I was working at Barnes & Noble and they let you borrow books as employees and I borrowed a lot!). Anyhow, so I've decided I'm going to do some creative exchanging and get the first book in trade paper with the matching movie promo covers (at the time, the SciFi channel movie was coming out - so all they had were movie promo covers).

I also found my many, many, Russian instruction books. Seeing them all made me sad. I bought and tried so many and still I couldn't seem to find the time, energy, or help to learn it. I also found my copy of As I Lay Dying by Faulkner. I bought this on suggestion of this guy I "kind of" had a crush on. I say "kind of" because I liked him, but he was a wreck and I never did anything about my like for him. Plus, he came to our store and then transfered in like a week. Since I have the book I'm going to try and read it.

We went to Barnes & Noble again this weekend (I'm visiting that place so often now, I love it!) and I picked up The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin because the back cover sounded good. I was bummed when we got home because I left Ripley on the bed with the book for about ten minutes to come back to find she'd chewed off a good portion of the corner :( I hate damaged books - especially when I'd just paid for them - and full price. That'll teach me. I haven't started reading it yet - but its going on my list! We also saw - but didn't pick up - the first volume of the Vampire Hunter D series. In an afterthought I remembered that A. Dawn Wolf had been reading these as well. B&N didn't have the first, only the other eight volumes, but I found the first at Borders the next day. So - that's going my list too even though I bought it more for Paul. No book is safe!

I've read a lot more of The Handmaid's Tale and I'll be making a separate post about that later.