help me, obi wan internet
I need your advice!
I took off the week of September 22, because I am at use-it-or-lose-it time when it comes to vacation days. I had been planning on a staycation and more making the apartment habitable. (There are STILL things to clean. Because it is old, and the last tenants not particularly thorough. Also, I am possibly picky.)
BUT. I received a letter in the mail from my favorite cousin, making clear the standard 'you should visit sometime' was actually, 'no, seriously, anytime!' So maybe I should go to North Carolina? Airfare is high-ish and the drive is long.
View poll: Carolina dreaming
Also, I need to pick out a book to make my '100 Club' handsell. Because district manager says I am good at handselling, so why am I not in the 100 club already? Ifreet should Get On That. Only, I am good at handselling books related to the books someone already likes. I have a harder time coming up with "everyone should read this!" titles.
My goodreads account is here and these are some of my particular favorites. But several of them are not currently in print in this country (including my first choice to handsell! *shakes fist at Fred Vargas's U.S. publisher*) and most of them are genre, which can be a hard sale to a nongenre reader. I am leaning towards Among Others by Jo Walton or possibly The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. Or maybe Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie? Argh.
Suggestions? Or just things I need to read?
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I took off the week of September 22, because I am at use-it-or-lose-it time when it comes to vacation days. I had been planning on a staycation and more making the apartment habitable. (There are STILL things to clean. Because it is old, and the last tenants not particularly thorough. Also, I am possibly picky.)
BUT. I received a letter in the mail from my favorite cousin, making clear the standard 'you should visit sometime' was actually, 'no, seriously, anytime!' So maybe I should go to North Carolina? Airfare is high-ish and the drive is long.
View poll: Carolina dreaming
Also, I need to pick out a book to make my '100 Club' handsell. Because district manager says I am good at handselling, so why am I not in the 100 club already? Ifreet should Get On That. Only, I am good at handselling books related to the books someone already likes. I have a harder time coming up with "everyone should read this!" titles.
My goodreads account is here and these are some of my particular favorites. But several of them are not currently in print in this country (including my first choice to handsell! *shakes fist at Fred Vargas's U.S. publisher*) and most of them are genre, which can be a hard sale to a nongenre reader. I am leaning towards Among Others by Jo Walton or possibly The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin. Or maybe Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie? Argh.
Suggestions? Or just things I need to read?
The Dreamwidth version of this entry currently has
comments.