The mighty huntress has returned
bearing many books. Didn't leave at 1 as I'd planned and there was a rather annoying traffic backup between Manassas and Gainesville (never thought I'd envy the reported 18 mph average on 95 south, but it was three times what I was doing at that point), so ended up having just slightly under two hours at the book fair. I think two and a half would've been just about right, as I ended up skimming a lot of the fiction, sociology and military history sections. At least there are sections that I know I can skip entirely due to extreme unlikelihood of there being anything remotely interesting, like the "chick lit" and "religious fiction" areas, so that helps keep things moving. Luckily we weren't headed east on 66 instead, because it was closed east of Linden for what looked like a bad wreck. We passed a whole lot of people wandering on the shoulder and out leaning against their cars, so obviously it had happened a good while before we drove by.
The haul:
I found a hardback copy of something I've had on my Amazon wishlist for a while, Figure It Out! The Real Woman's Guide to Great Style (yes, "real woman" irks me too), for $5. Having flipped through it, I decided I didn't want to pay even the fraction of list that they wanted; it seems that absolutely nothing, based on the number of pages with the "o" crossed out, is an appropriate and flattering outfit for an apple-shaped woman. I need to spend money to be told that I don't look good in anything that doesn't resemble a muumuu, with perhaps a halter top if I'm lucky? No thanks. I put it back.
All that for, well, not nearly as much as they list for (and they all are technically new). The most expensive one was I think $5. I guess I'm pretty well stocked up for when I finish The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. Not that I wasn't before, of course, but now I'm even more so.
The haul:
- The Coma, Alex Garland
- The Well of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
- Midaq Alley/The Thief and the Dogs/Miramar, Naguib Mahfouz (99 cents!)
- The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq, John Crawford
- Yes, You Can! Home Repairs Made Easy, Amy Wynn Pastor (which honestly I mostly got because it's Amy Wynn Pastor *swoon*)
- Outsiders, edited by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick (includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, Tanith Lee and Caitlin Kiernan)
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
- The Light Ages, Ian MacLeod
- The Irreverent Guide to Los Angeles and Off the Beaten Path: Los Angeles
- Fender Benders, Bill Fizhugh
- The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, Lauren Willig
- Puff, Bob Flaherty
- Havana Bay, Martin Cruz Smith
I found a hardback copy of something I've had on my Amazon wishlist for a while, Figure It Out! The Real Woman's Guide to Great Style (yes, "real woman" irks me too), for $5. Having flipped through it, I decided I didn't want to pay even the fraction of list that they wanted; it seems that absolutely nothing, based on the number of pages with the "o" crossed out, is an appropriate and flattering outfit for an apple-shaped woman. I need to spend money to be told that I don't look good in anything that doesn't resemble a muumuu, with perhaps a halter top if I'm lucky? No thanks. I put it back.
All that for, well, not nearly as much as they list for (and they all are technically new). The most expensive one was I think $5. I guess I'm pretty well stocked up for when I finish The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters. Not that I wasn't before, of course, but now I'm even more so.