a promise I'll remember
Thank you to everybody who suggested holiday music last time! I've been having fun listening to all kinds of stuff, discovering some things, and rediscovering others. For example, I'd heard The Holly and the Ivy before, but the other day these lines floored me:
The rising of the sun
The running of the deer
I just.
;alksdjf;alskjdfal;skdjfa;lskdjfas;lkdjfas;ldkjfa;lskjdfa;
In Gainful Employment news, last Saturday was the most insane day I have ever seen. It’s like people decided Black Friday was for the mall, and then Saturday was STORM THE BOOK STORE DAY. It was also, apparently, Teh Day of Teh Gay.
MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN LADY: What can you recommend me from the YA shelf that’s realistic and doesn’t have any deep issues or homosexuality? They’re uncomfortable with that stuff at that age, you know.
FIONA: ...
[FIONA’S INNER VOICE: You’re asking for realistic YA fiction with no issues? Lady, I got nothin’. Also, pssh, they’re getting to be big kids. Some of them probably ARE homosexual. They can deal!]
FIONA: Realism, you say?
MSLL: They’re reading the Hunger Games right now.
FIONA: Realism, huh.
SOME GUY: *buys The Fall of the Kings*
FIONA: Ooh. Have you read Swordspoint?
SOME GUY: Yeah, I just finished it. It was great!
FIONA: I’m not as crazy about Fall of the Kings, but Privilege of the Sword is awesome, you should definitely read that next.
SOME GUY: Excellent!
FIONA: Man, I love cool people.
SOME LADY: Do you have a GLBT romance section?
FIONA: No.
SOME LADY: It’s not for me, it’s for my friend over there.
FIONA: We still don’t have one.
FIONA: But here, have a few titles!
THE TITLES: *are all, ultimately, rejected*
FIONA: *pets Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword consolingly*
FIONA: Better luck next time, y'all. I’m sure Some Guy will be back.
A while ago I had requested that we carry Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There, and our copies finally came in. I retrieved it from the shelf (again) to wave in people’s faces at the infodesk (again) while trying to write a staff rec for it (again). I got J and L to agree that it was awesome. Weirdly, creepily, bizarrely awesome.
Then L suggested that we stage it as a pageant. She volunteered to be the ice baby.
Some nights, it is all worth it.
Today, mousapelli helped me put together a rec that will have to be satisfactory, because I don’t like any of my other versions. The conclusion: "Together, they fight crime!"
As I told Mousi just now, someday when I’m famous people will interview my former colleagues. “Was she an awesome bookseller who picked things that appealed to everybody and sold tons of copies?”
“Well no, but she sure liked interesting stuff!”
I don’t think this bodes well for my future as a high-powered successful editor. XD But I have an ARC of the new published-in-the-US-for-the-first-time Shaun Tan collection, Lost and Found, so right now I don’t really care.
The rising of the sun
The running of the deer
I just.
;alksdjf;alskjdfal;skdjfa;lskdjfas;lkdjfas;ldkjfa;lskjdfa;
In Gainful Employment news, last Saturday was the most insane day I have ever seen. It’s like people decided Black Friday was for the mall, and then Saturday was STORM THE BOOK STORE DAY. It was also, apparently, Teh Day of Teh Gay.
MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN LADY: What can you recommend me from the YA shelf that’s realistic and doesn’t have any deep issues or homosexuality? They’re uncomfortable with that stuff at that age, you know.
FIONA: ...
[FIONA’S INNER VOICE: You’re asking for realistic YA fiction with no issues? Lady, I got nothin’. Also, pssh, they’re getting to be big kids. Some of them probably ARE homosexual. They can deal!]
FIONA: Realism, you say?
MSLL: They’re reading the Hunger Games right now.
FIONA: Realism, huh.
SOME GUY: *buys The Fall of the Kings*
FIONA: Ooh. Have you read Swordspoint?
SOME GUY: Yeah, I just finished it. It was great!
FIONA: I’m not as crazy about Fall of the Kings, but Privilege of the Sword is awesome, you should definitely read that next.
SOME GUY: Excellent!
FIONA: Man, I love cool people.
SOME LADY: Do you have a GLBT romance section?
FIONA: No.
SOME LADY: It’s not for me, it’s for my friend over there.
FIONA: We still don’t have one.
FIONA: But here, have a few titles!
THE TITLES: *are all, ultimately, rejected*
FIONA: *pets Swordspoint and Privilege of the Sword consolingly*
FIONA: Better luck next time, y'all. I’m sure Some Guy will be back.
A while ago I had requested that we carry Maurice Sendak's Outside Over There, and our copies finally came in. I retrieved it from the shelf (again) to wave in people’s faces at the infodesk (again) while trying to write a staff rec for it (again). I got J and L to agree that it was awesome. Weirdly, creepily, bizarrely awesome.
Then L suggested that we stage it as a pageant. She volunteered to be the ice baby.
Some nights, it is all worth it.
Today, mousapelli helped me put together a rec that will have to be satisfactory, because I don’t like any of my other versions. The conclusion: "Together, they fight crime!"
As I told Mousi just now, someday when I’m famous people will interview my former colleagues. “Was she an awesome bookseller who picked things that appealed to everybody and sold tons of copies?”
“Well no, but she sure liked interesting stuff!”
I don’t think this bodes well for my future as a high-powered successful editor. XD But I have an ARC of the new published-in-the-US-for-the-first-time Shaun Tan collection, Lost and Found, so right now I don’t really care.