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jaeleslie at 09:48pm on 01/06/2004
jaeleslie at 09:48pm on 01/06/2004Came home from Wiscon with only four new books. Okay, five counting the new Wiscon issue of Extrapolations journal. And two of them were freebies. Warner Books sent tons of new books (two by Nalo Hopkinson, I got her Skin Folk and an Octavia Butler book) yay Warner Books! so many that they were unpacked at several different times during the convention. Photographer who was there when the hardbacks went on the table told me later it was an ugly scene... then for the last distribution a sign went up saying to Form A Line. The ones I actually bought were another Ursula LeGuin book of essays (from Shambhala Press) and Jennifer Stevenson's new Trash Sex Magic, great title I'm sure you'll agree.
So even though I am not allowed in bookstores you see how they follow me home. It was not my idea today to go to Frugal Muse, Chris & Penny came up with that on their own (okay someone told them but it wasn't me) and I was just their driver. And then as long as I was there I decided not to resist and feel bad but just to go with it, so I picked out a bunch of books and then sensibly put back half of them. I bought a second copy of the same pulp Grimm's Fairy Tales that I have had since I was six that is held together with a rubber band and which I had forgotten what the cover looked like, for only a dollar. A beautiful children's book illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. A book of essays on style. A book of essays by famous modern artists about what they think they are doing anyhow. A technical book on basic art materials and procedures with lots of useful information. A book on polymer (acrylic) painting which fills in where the other leaves off. A bound galley of a recent book-length essay on colors that I had thought sounded interesting in reviews.
Then we went to the post office and I learned all about how to mail large boxes of books cheaply to the U.K. in a Surface M Bag. The post office employees here are my friends, and the one we saw knew right off the top of his head what you will search for in vain on the USPO website.
So even though I am not allowed in bookstores you see how they follow me home. It was not my idea today to go to Frugal Muse, Chris & Penny came up with that on their own (okay someone told them but it wasn't me) and I was just their driver. And then as long as I was there I decided not to resist and feel bad but just to go with it, so I picked out a bunch of books and then sensibly put back half of them. I bought a second copy of the same pulp Grimm's Fairy Tales that I have had since I was six that is held together with a rubber band and which I had forgotten what the cover looked like, for only a dollar. A beautiful children's book illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon. A book of essays on style. A book of essays by famous modern artists about what they think they are doing anyhow. A technical book on basic art materials and procedures with lots of useful information. A book on polymer (acrylic) painting which fills in where the other leaves off. A bound galley of a recent book-length essay on colors that I had thought sounded interesting in reviews.
Then we went to the post office and I learned all about how to mail large boxes of books cheaply to the U.K. in a Surface M Bag. The post office employees here are my friends, and the one we saw knew right off the top of his head what you will search for in vain on the USPO website.
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