DW, accounts in flux, books I'm about to be reading...
One of these days, I'll actually get around to using the DW cross-posting utility. And backing up my LJs. But I'm no longer procrastinating on uploading a custom mood theme to DW; now I'm holding out for a Yotsuba&! theme. Someday, if I only wait and dream, there will be such a thing.
This afternoon I mentioned on my other LJ account (the one not currently being mirrored to DW) that I'm planning to change the devision between them from "geek" and "personal" to "public" and "personal". So if you only read this account and suddenly find yourself reading about what I'm baking or what color we're painting our kitchen--along with what I'm geeking out over--you know what happened. (Perhaps late on a Friday night isn't the time to mention that, but it's not exactly earth-shattering.)
I'm starting to feel a bit drowned in books, which isn't exactly a complaint. I have just under two weeks until Casual Job starts back up, and I may have unsuspended a few too many holds at the library. I went in yesterday and picked up four books, and there are already four more waiting for me and six more in transit. Fortunately a bunch of them are manga or graphic novels:
Currently waiting:
The Drowning City (novel)
Escape from 'Special' (graphic novel)
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (non-fiction)
Ha'Penny (novel)
In transit:
Astonishing X-Men vol. 4 (graphic novel)
Castle Waiting (graphic novel)
Dreamfall (novel)
The Pretender's Crown (novel)
Rosemary and Rue (novel)
The Sharing Knife: Passage (novel)
Last week I took advantage of my library's "request for purchase" system for the first time in a while, but it turns out--shockingly!--that when they say you may only request up to ten books per month, they don't actually mean that you can request, say, vol. 24-35 of One Piece and have it count as one request. There...may have been a few requests like that, so I got a polite but brisk email from someone in Acquisitions informing me of which books would not be under consideration this month. C'est la vie, etc.
(I do hold out hope that in One Piece's case the note I included in the "comments" box, which politely pointed out that Viz is speeding up the series' release to several volumes per month [and therefore the library's collection is falling behind at an alarming rate, although I left that implicit], will perhaps inspire them to order the new volumes anyway, but I don't know what their budget is like or what the series' circulation stats are, so...)
The sad thing here is that I'd actually gone to the site in hopes of getting them to pre-order Naomi Novik's Tongues of Serpents and Megan Whalen Turner's A Conspiracy of Kings, but they don't accept purchase requests for books that haven't yet been released. :/
[manually x-posted to DW]
This afternoon I mentioned on my other LJ account (the one not currently being mirrored to DW) that I'm planning to change the devision between them from "geek" and "personal" to "public" and "personal". So if you only read this account and suddenly find yourself reading about what I'm baking or what color we're painting our kitchen--along with what I'm geeking out over--you know what happened. (Perhaps late on a Friday night isn't the time to mention that, but it's not exactly earth-shattering.)
I'm starting to feel a bit drowned in books, which isn't exactly a complaint. I have just under two weeks until Casual Job starts back up, and I may have unsuspended a few too many holds at the library. I went in yesterday and picked up four books, and there are already four more waiting for me and six more in transit. Fortunately a bunch of them are manga or graphic novels:
Currently waiting:
The Drowning City (novel)
Escape from 'Special' (graphic novel)
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (non-fiction)
Ha'Penny (novel)
In transit:
Astonishing X-Men vol. 4 (graphic novel)
Castle Waiting (graphic novel)
Dreamfall (novel)
The Pretender's Crown (novel)
Rosemary and Rue (novel)
The Sharing Knife: Passage (novel)
Last week I took advantage of my library's "request for purchase" system for the first time in a while, but it turns out--shockingly!--that when they say you may only request up to ten books per month, they don't actually mean that you can request, say, vol. 24-35 of One Piece and have it count as one request. There...may have been a few requests like that, so I got a polite but brisk email from someone in Acquisitions informing me of which books would not be under consideration this month. C'est la vie, etc.
(I do hold out hope that in One Piece's case the note I included in the "comments" box, which politely pointed out that Viz is speeding up the series' release to several volumes per month [and therefore the library's collection is falling behind at an alarming rate, although I left that implicit], will perhaps inspire them to order the new volumes anyway, but I don't know what their budget is like or what the series' circulation stats are, so...)
The sad thing here is that I'd actually gone to the site in hopes of getting them to pre-order Naomi Novik's Tongues of Serpents and Megan Whalen Turner's A Conspiracy of Kings, but they don't accept purchase requests for books that haven't yet been released. :/
[manually x-posted to DW]