I do not need more books. That doesn't mean I don't want to go to the Green Valley Book Fair for an afternoon though, and I'm craving a bit of a road trip. For those of you who've never been, it's essentially an enormous warehouse full of remaindered and overstock books, and I've been known to leave the place with two and a half grocery sacks ( Read more... )

I feel like I need a weekend to recover from my weekend. (Okay, it's really more that I seriously do not want to go back to work tomorrow.) Friday evening nminusone and I met up with the fabulous jessicamelusine and friends to see "Elizabeth: The Golden Age". "Textile porn", Salon called it, and I don't disagree. Historically accurate? Probably not so much, but very ( Read more... )

I'm thinking it might be fun to take another little road trip down to Harrisonburg to the Green Valley Book Fair again. They're open Aug. 18 through Sept. 3 this time (and then again in November/December). Right this minute, my completely not-written-in-stone plan is to head down there on Saturday, Sept. 1. Anyone want to go with?

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 ( Read more... )

It's time again for the Green Valley Book Fair, Aug. 19 - Sept. 4. For folks who haven't been yet, it's essentially a big book outlet sale that's only open a few times a year. The most I've ever paid for any single item there is $12, and that was for a $40 retail book on writing Dreamweaver MX extensions; most fiction titles I've found are in ( Read more... )