Personal Note: Hi, my name is nebroadwe, and I'm a bibliomaniac

[nebroadwe]

Having promised ourselves a tour of every Borders within driving distance during the 50-70% off period of their closedown (sigh), kanja177 and I made an abbreviated visit to two of the biggest ones last night. (Stupid hurricane, spoiling our fun.) I envy kanja177 the ability to say, "I have X amount of money to spend and that's all" and stick to it. Me, I throw budgeting to the winds and grab everything I've ever wanted that's still on the shelves ... okay, well, almost everything. I did pass up some stuff -- usually later volumes of a series whose earlier ones I don't have yet. But I walked out with:

-- five random volumes of Ouran High School Host Club*
-- Naomi Novik's Will Supervillains Be on the Final?**
-- Bone v. 2 and 3***
-- Diane Duane's Omnitopia Dawn****
-- Elizabeth Peters's The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog*****
-- Jim Butcher's Changes and Cursor's Fury******
-- Shannon Hale's Enna Burning*******
-- and a cookbook.********

We also split a copy of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles in Love against future need. It's the perfect present for the romance fan who needs to be lured into SF. (Heh, heh, heh.) Now I just need to remind myself not to spend any more fun money until October, when kanja177 and I will attend Scott Westerfeld's Goliath signing in New York. (And hit the Book*Off for cheap manga. And maybe the Strand and the Kinokuniya. And that yarn shop in Chelsea ... )

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*The anime made me laugh and laugh and laugh. If you like your shoujo tropes skewered and grilled, take a look. So far, the manga is equally amusing.

**Which has gotten mostly "meh" reviews, but, hey, it's Naomi Novik -- I'll give it a whirl on discount.

***No, I don't own v. 1. I never do. I even started The Lord of the Rings with The Two Towers.

****I like her immersive worldbuilding. It's so immersive that my friend C sat down next to me on the train this morning and I never noticed. He, of course, gets great amusement out of quietly waiting for me to twig. I think I set the record today by catching on only after I'd begged his pardon for stepping over him on the way to the door at our mutual stop.

*****Early Amelia Peabody is a guilty pleasure for me; the later volumes, where everyone repents and becomes One Big Happy Family related to Vicky Bliss's best beloved in the other series ... not so much.

******I picked up the first of his Codex Alera books after it was high-concepted to me as "descendants of the Ninth Legion with Pokémon, except not really" and enjoyed it. Of course, Cursor's Fury is the third book in the series.

*******For completeness's sake. I have all the other Books of Bayern -- even the first one.

********One can never have too many slow-cooker recipes that call for real ingredients rather than canned cream of mushroom soup. Though I make an exception for the one that uses frozen spinach and boxed corn muffin mix to make a delightful spinach-gorgonzola-corn bread loaf. Mmm.

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

if it helps I did the same. I have more manga and other crap than I can lug around

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

We need a support group (if only to help with the lugging). This is my third trip to various dying Borderses in the area; I've also picked up more Butcher and some Heyer (very early in the process; her stuff went quickly), but I held off on the manga until now.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

we do.

I made 2 (and 2 way earlier in the year since the ones in columbus closed just after Christmas). the manga I did buy more expensively glad i did since mine had none left

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I was expecting the manga to be more picked over than it was, but was happy to see some stuff I wanted still on the shelves (cheaper than RightStuf.com during a sale, which is the only way I'll buy manga at brick and mortar. Color me frugal.).

[kanja177.livejournal.com]

I promise, if any of IDW's recent Star Trek graphic novels had been up for grabs, self-restraint would've gone right out the window.

Good heavens, you and C must have at least 20 minutes between his stop and your destination. That's some immersion, there.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I promise, if any of IDW's recent Star Trek graphic novels had been up for grabs, self-restraint would've gone right out the window.

So you say. I saw you choose only one Betsy/Tacy reprint!

Good heavens, you and C must have at least 20 minutes between his stop and your destination. That's some immersion, there.

Yes, well, if he'd poke me and say hi like a normal person ... :-)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I was so sad that the local Borders didn't do a massive discount. I bought one book. One. All the manga had been cleaned out. Most of the YA/SF/F had also gone away. All places where I haunt bookstores regularly.

Mmmm, Amelia Peabody....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i hear you. there was very little left at mine and no game. pouts. i wanted star trek monopoly but it was only 20% off the first time there

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm kicking myself for not getting a Lego famous building set for my architect friend for Christmas. Though even on discount it was still a bit pricey ...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like a Borders that had no reason to close. (Well, except for corporate going under and all that.) Both the ones we visited had all their Intermediate Reader stuff more or less gone, but the emo/vampire section of YA was still pretty well populated. And, oddly, there was still a fair amount of SF.

Mmmm, Amelia Peabody....

She's so much fun. The next generation ... eh, well, I like to imagine it's Sethos writing those 3rd person accounts, tongue planted firmly in cheek. I never really got over the way Nefret picked up the Idiot Ball and scored an own goal with it during her romance plot.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Having only read bits and pieces (I've never sat down and read the entire series, but I think I've read 4-6 of the novels?), I'll have to take your word on it. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i have no doubt of that. yeah the games were still too much at 20% and gone by the time 50-70% rolled around

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

No, no -- read it for yourself! (I'd love to hear your unvarnished opinion of the next gen romance bits ...)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I just got a note saying they're now up to 60-80% locally. I think kanja177 and I will hit up a few more stores on Monday ...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

good luck. i only have one in 100 miles and i did that last week and I think i now own everything i want

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I saw some David/Ramses slash on springkink...?