Booknotes, for locals

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The remaindered bookstore in L'Esplanade Laurier is closing on the 26th. At the moment, you can fill a bag (of the type they have at the front desk--no bringing a laundry bag) with books for $20 ($21.20 with tax). I was careful to always hold the bag at the bottom, as it seemed flimsy, but not particularly small.

I grabbed
* Grass for his Pillow and The Caveman's Valentine (both gifts)
* The Moth Diaries (already started, cautiously optimistic, apparently it has vampires)
* Creepshows
* Shivers (anthology)
* a Tom Godwin collection (he wrote "The Cold Equations", beautiful stuff)
* a flavour companion to The Blair Witch Project
* My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
* Future Females (essay anthology)
* the 2004 Nebula Awards Showcase (hey, it has a Charlie Stross story! Bonus!)
* Powers of Detection (anthology)
* Piratica (looks to be a YA book, but it's written by Tanith Lee, so it gets a shot)
* two books by Marcus Sedgwick
* and Darkness Visible by William Golding.

I had never heard of that last, but it's *William Golding*. So either I will be incredibly heartened by how much he improved before writing Lord of the Flies, or I will have the human condition stripped bare before me on the page with its nerve endings raw and writhing.

Also, I found chibi Whateley art. (Not at the booksale.) My *brain*.

On a semi-related note, Neil Gaiman has a Whateley transcribing Cthulhu's story, if you've not seen it yet.

EDIT: Xorph nearly made me spit coffee onto my keyboard this morning. Check it out.

Comments

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Piratica (which I picked up at that same store, back when it first opened) is fun-fun-fun! :-) It's like PotC in YA-book form! Whee! :-D

I picked up a bunch of stuff, including "The Faces of Fantasy" (portraits and blurbs on Fantasy authors), "The Lifestyle" about Swingers, an ethnography on cyber sex, a couple of YA books that might turn out to be horible, but might surprise me, too. and I don't remember what else. :-) Whee! Dirt-cheap books! :-D

[amazon-syren.livejournal.com]

Re: Xorph: Huh. Yeah, that actually seems like something Wordworth would do. <*snerk*>