Screw it, the hiatus is pretty kicked in the head

[annathepiper]

Yes yes yes, I know, you all knew that already. Work with me here. ;)

Due to selling my old first generation nook to leannan_sidhe, I now have a hundred bucks’ worth of unexpected money–and it will surprise none of you that that’s going right back into ebooks for the new nook as soon as I decide what I want to get.

Meanwhile, I took a big ol’ bunch of books down to Third Place because I was out of space for trades and hardbacks. I also took a bag of mass market paperbacks, half Patricia Briggs and half Star Wars novels, and everything I took down is going to be re-purchased for the nook as well. But that also scored me $45 of store credit to use!

Conveniently, katatomic drops a new release this week so that’ll eat up a good chunk of that credit right there, since I do buy Ms. Richardson in hardcover. I’ll also be grabbing rachelcaine‘s newest in paperback since she maintains her status on the Buy in Print Because I Would Be Sad If I Could Not Read Her When the Power Is Out.

All of which leads me into noting that I took a second pop into the downtown Borders, looking for stuff I could buy in print that wasn’t available in e. I picked up Dorothy Sayers’ Busman’s Honeymoon, on the grounds that more Lord Peter Wimsey is always a good thing to have in one’s library.

And also, I grabbed Sheri Tepper’s The Gate to Women’s Country at the Friends of the Library sales rack down at the Lake Forest Park library. They were selling it for a quarter. Works for me, given that that was on my To Read list anyway!

140 for the year, though that number will be going up sharply once I spend the nook sales money and the store credit. Stay tuned!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

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[angelina-zooma.livejournal.com]

completely unrelated, but I wanted to make sure this was on your radar: Russell Crowe reunites with 'Hood' gang in St. John's (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2011/08/02/nl-russell-crowe-stjohns-robin-hood-802.html?ref=rss)

[annathepiper]

I've been aware of that, yeah, since I follow both Mr. Crowe and Mr. Doyle on Twitter. :) Thanks!

... though wait, I DID NOT know Russell was guest-spotting on Republic of Doyle! DUDE. I clearly need to bump up my priority on finding that show. :)

[angelina-zooma.livejournal.com]

You do! The show is actually surprisingly good for a Canadian TV Series. Thankfully for me it's on Netflix here, but I've checked and it's not on Netflix in the states.

You can buy the dvds from CBC's online store (http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/boutique.aspx?CatalogName=CBCBase&CategoryName=boutique_ROD_subroot&lang=en-CA)

[annathepiper]

I've got an amazon.ca account so I can order from them!

But, it also turns out that since we do actually get CBUT Vancouver on our cable via Comcast, we can watch the show directly, woo! I just need to find out whether our Tivo has older episodes as well as the current ones on the schedule.