Yes, that's what I'm labeling myself...
I like books...I have book withdrawls...it's just...TERRIBLE! Frankly, it never really happened until Borders came into the picture. I mean, I've ALWAYS loved books, but it's just...terrible now! I'm in love with Sleeping Bear Press Alphabet Books now...They are the COOLEST things. You should type "Sleeping Bear Press Alphabet Books" into Amazon.com and see all the books. Some of the books authors live in Monterey. I got my dad the _H is for Homerun_ and it's autographed. I have _H is for Horse_. Geeze, I wonder why I got that one for myself?
They're COOL though! They're NOT just "B is for Bit" or "H is for homerun," but more like a little poem and then on the outside of each page for the letter there's more information on other things concerning "horses" or "baseball." Like on the 'B' it talks the bits for horses and also the bridles and such. It's really cool. The illustrations are great too! I want now...B is for Bluegrass (one on Kentucky) and S is for Star (Christmas book, talks about the history).So, yeah, that's my latest obsession at Borders...
My last one was Tamora Pierce. I bought almost every book she's written... Well, that's not quite true. There's 8 books I haven't bought and won't. She has these series and they over lap! So the first set I read, but didn't buy was _Trickster's Choice_ and _Trickster's Queen_ and realized I was reading the books backwards, so I went and got the other ones and ended up buying the first two I read. It ended up being 14 books... *cough* I got them in mass market size though (smallest size). Didn't spend an arm and a leg either because of my discount. It's probably a good thing my section of the store isn't Christian Fiction or pets or something...I think I'd be doomed if it was. The kids section is bad enough! Finding all these cool picture books and young adult books...
Picture books are EXPENSIVE too. The hard back are rarely ever under $15. More-or-less they're around $16.95.So far, though, my favorite book has come out to be _Daughter of the Forest_ by Juliet Marillier. I dunno if you can say it's my ALL time favorite, but it's at least, right now, my favorite. It's based off of an Irish folktale about a sister who's brother's turn into swans and only she can return them to being human. The Grimm brother's did a short thing on the same tale. It's a girly book, I will have to say, even though it's in the science fiction section.
It's a science fiction romance, I guess. No gross stuff like sex or anything, but it's just one of those type of books, I dunno. I just like it a lot. The folktale is good too. Another good series I keep trying to tell people about is the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde. Colin actually found those at Borders and now I'm hooked too. Very cleverly written books. It helps if you've read _Jane Eyre_ too, at least for the first book, and _Hamlet_, for the 4th book. Or if you're at least familiar with how the story goes in each one of those, especially the ending in _Jane Eyre_.
Books I'm most looking foreward to coming out: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling, Opal by Lauraine Snelling, and The Eldest by Christopher Paolini (I know the release dates on two of the three!
No Harry Potter date, yet...)DVDs I'm looking foreward to coming out: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (extended special edition), and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (they're coming out the end of this year, yay!!)
Any ways, other than that...there's not much going on. Things are going as they normally do.
Calc, FYS, and CST are fine. Whelps, got hw to do. All for now!
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