3 posts tagged “books”

I don't think I've mentioned much on here about this, but I'm a fan of the Twilight series of books. The author of the Twilight series, Stephanie Meyers, has just released her first book written and geared towards adults while the Twilight series was geared more towards young-adults even though it ended up being enjoyed by a much wider audience. The book, entitled The Host, was released yesterday - and as part of a promotion the author is doing a book tour. My sister got me and a bunch of us others tickets to the book signing and yesterday she picked up our books and tickets to the May 23rd event.

Last night my sister had a "release party" and made gift bags to hand out with the books - it was so much fun! We made bookmarks for using when reading The Host and we're going to get together again soon to make t-shirts to wear to the book signing later this month. I'm so excited! I love doing fan stuff, makes me feel less like a minority in my interests :)

I went home last night early because I'm still getting use to the time change again - though I've nearly tackled it - and I wasn't able to even crack the book open :( I'm hoping that I'll have some time today while at work, but likely not. What sucks is that while I used to take my lunch during the majority of the staff's lunch hour and so therefore have a bit of peace, quiet and privacy while at my desk - I've been forced to change my lunch hour to 11am-12pm in order to cover the lunch hour. My only hope now to get an uninterrupted lunch is to go out to my car!

Has any other neighbors, other than Tracy who's been keeping me in the loop so far as the Twilight movie goes, read the Twilight series or is interested in Stephanie Meyers new book The Host?

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.

As I posted, I'm going to be reading the three remaining books in the Earthsea series (along with the first three) as part of my 50 in 365. Well I don't have the last three so I ordered them online from Amazon.com. I checked around first of course, but I'm a bit particular because I love trade paper* version over mass market**. Barnes & Noble doesn't always have the best deals and was going to charge me $14 for each book, I would have gotten free shipping, but they also were going to charge me tax - so in the end I would have paid $10 more for the order. No thank you.

Amazon.com always has the best deals when it comes to books, so much better over eBay. I hate eBay for books. Even if the price for the book is good (less than retail) they always charge $7.99+ for shipping because it's not individual sellers but actual stores. Plus, no one sells trade paper - it's all mass market.

So, as I've said. I <3 Amazon.com for books :)

*A trade paperback (TPB), sometimes referred to as a trade paper edition, is a paperback book in which the text pages are identical to the text pages in the hardcover edition. It is usually the same size as the hardcover edition. The only difference is the softbinding; and the quality of the paper is usually higher than that of a mass market paperback. Trade paperbacks are typically priced less than hardcover books and higher than mass market paperbacks. Virtually all "Advance Reader's Copies" are issued in trade paperback format.

**A mass market paperback (MMP or MMPB) is a small, usually non-illustrated, and inexpensive bookbinding format. They are commonly released after the hardback edition, and often sold in non-traditional bookselling locations such as airports, drug stores, and supermarkets, as well as in traditional bookstores. Many paperbacks, especially in the area of genre fiction, are first editions in paperback and never receive a hardcover printing. This is particularly true of early novels by new writers.