RP: Books, books and more books

[lainekohler]

Date: January 15, 2011
Characters: Laine Kohler, Nellie O’Neill
Location: Barnes & Noble, Sundance Square
Status: Public-ish
Summary: Laine uses one of her days off to browse and shop
Completion: Incomplete

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[nellie_oneill]

Now that she had a place to live and was actively looking for a place to work--with several interviews lined up, at that, yay her--Nellie was starting to feel a little more secure in having chosen pretty much randomly to more hundreds of miles across the country. This meant, of course, that she had a bit of spare time on her hands, now that she didn't spend every moment worrying about everything. She'd always been bad about worrying about every single thing, usually leaving that up to Declan and Elliot

[lainekohler]

Laine smiled and closed the book she was holding when the other woman browsing spoke up. “Don’t reckon too many of these are accurate,” She replied, “Or not any I’ve read lately. I do usually enjoy Philippa Gregory books though, or at least they don’t make me want to hurl them across a room.” She’d read most of them, save for the newest, “Haven’t read The Other Boleyn Girl in a few years, but I did like it the first time through.”

She placed the book she’d been browsing back on the shelf, “The film was terrible though,” She bent to continue her search of the shelves, “Are you looking for anything in particular?” She asked and glanced at the other woman again, "Or just browsing also?"

[nellie_oneill]

“Parts of them, but not the hwole. But I guess that’s part of the fun. Plus I can enjoy the story and nitpick the details, all in one go,” Nellie half-joked. It was, after all, something she regularly did. “Well, except for some of those Regency romances. Those stretch things even for me, most of the time.” Though she wasn’t as much for romances these days. They made her ache, still, sometimes. “I liked it when I read it, evne if her kids weren’t actually his kids, like the book makes us want to believe.” Though things like that did happen.

“I never actually caught the film, believe it or not. I do watch The Tudors sometimes on TV, though, but not enough to actually give an opinion of it.” It was interesting, at least. “Not really anything in particular, just looking for something interesting to read since my library hasn’t been trucked over here yet.” And she wasn’t sure when it would be, if at all. “So just browsing, I guess. You?”

[lainekohler]

Laine nodded. “Oh, absolutely. It’s much more fun than reading historical non-fiction,” and considering she never had long stretches of time to read, she preferred to read the things she really enjoyed. “Romance isn’t usually my top choice, I prefer a little intrigue and scandal in my reading.” She liked happy endings well enough, but sometimes it seemed like the authors were all writing from the same formula; it got to be repetitive. “And I prefer Victorian over Regency, or as silly as it seems, the American West.”

“Oh, I’ve seen that once or twice, their Charles Brandon is lovely,” Laine said, “It was a bit difficult to keep up on without premium cable and I don’t have the extra funds to purchase the discs.” She pulled another book off the shelf and turned it over to read the back cover, “The same. I like to keep a new book on hand, and I’ve read through everything I own.” She answered, “So, you just moved to the area?”