The One With All The Books...
I finally exercised some semblance of willpower today and put Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene back on the bookstore shelf, where it shall remain until I have finished The Ancestor's Tale and The Devil's Chaplin, both of which (I almost wrote 'whom' there, ack!) I have yet to read. Soon my lovelies, soon...(and it's a bloody small bookstore, I'm probably the only person to browse the science section...yes all the sciences are lumped together...with Mythbusters books!)
(I also saw Meshel Laurie in Coles today. I tried to contain the squee. She looked at me as she was walking in, probably thinking 'who's that skinny bitch on the seat with the dumbstuck look on her face?' *headdesk* at least I'm too shy to say something that would no doubt end up embarrassing... )
I did finish Hydra today. I adore it to pieces! One of the best sci fi books I have read in a long time. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the unanswered questions at the end are an itch... in your ear...that when you stick a q-tip in, you have to push it in so far it's like 1/8th of an orgasm...wait, what?
...That kind of itch. :P
Speaking of the SG novels, I am still having issues tracking down a copy of Siren Song. Apparently it's out of print now, so I managed to order one off Amazon (which I hate doing because shipping books half way around the world is expensive). This was like 3 weeks ago. Amazon said it wouldn't be shipped until after Christmas, I'm cool with that, no rush. Today, I log in to see wtf is going on, I still haven't been charged, and now I find the order has been wiped. It's no longer there, AND they have no more books either (aside from overpriced used ones), wahhhh! It's hard enough to get those books in Australia, and now Amazon is stiffing me too. *la cry* I've sent them an email, so I'll have to wait and see what's going on there.
In good news, however, I arrived home to find a package from Galaxy (which is funny, because I ordered from Abbeys because Galaxy's site didn't have what I wanted :P) and I now have all the Stargate illustrated companions except for the season 3 & 4 one because no one has it apparently. An excellent way to spend left over Christmas money from the relatives, yes? :D
*Curls up with another book*
(I also saw Meshel Laurie in Coles today. I tried to contain the squee. She looked at me as she was walking in, probably thinking 'who's that skinny bitch on the seat with the dumbstuck look on her face?' *headdesk* at least I'm too shy to say something that would no doubt end up embarrassing... )
I did finish Hydra today. I adore it to pieces! One of the best sci fi books I have read in a long time. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the unanswered questions at the end are an itch... in your ear...that when you stick a q-tip in, you have to push it in so far it's like 1/8th of an orgasm...wait, what?
...That kind of itch. :P
Speaking of the SG novels, I am still having issues tracking down a copy of Siren Song. Apparently it's out of print now, so I managed to order one off Amazon (which I hate doing because shipping books half way around the world is expensive). This was like 3 weeks ago. Amazon said it wouldn't be shipped until after Christmas, I'm cool with that, no rush. Today, I log in to see wtf is going on, I still haven't been charged, and now I find the order has been wiped. It's no longer there, AND they have no more books either (aside from overpriced used ones), wahhhh! It's hard enough to get those books in Australia, and now Amazon is stiffing me too. *la cry* I've sent them an email, so I'll have to wait and see what's going on there.
In good news, however, I arrived home to find a package from Galaxy (which is funny, because I ordered from Abbeys because Galaxy's site didn't have what I wanted :P) and I now have all the Stargate illustrated companions except for the season 3 & 4 one because no one has it apparently. An excellent way to spend left over Christmas money from the relatives, yes? :D
*Curls up with another book*