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We are in the process of picking a fun summer read. Suggestions appreciated.
i had a date on saturday night, and being the badass conversationalist that i am started talking about book clubhouse. i told him we were reading junot diaz’s new book and he said “oh, i have been hearing a lot about her lately”.
now here is the question, on a scale of 1-10, how bad is it that i wanted to get really snobby w/ him and say “oh wow…this isn’t going to work out b/c junot diaz is a man”?
Started reading the book on my flight to DC tonight. I love how smoothly he integrates his sci/fi-fantasy references into the plot -
Respectability so dense in la grande that you’d need a blowtorch to cut it, and a guardedness so Minas Tirith in la pequena you’d need the whole of Mordor to overcome it.
I ordered the book from amazon today. I also ordered Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut in order to get super saver (free) shipping. Because of this, it will take 5-7 days before it arrives. I will be having a reading night when it does. I’m very excited about that…
Actually, it appears the regular Amazon price has recently gone down to just $14.97. Pretty much a bargain, I’d say.
relax, people, they have 50+ used/new copies on
amazon starting at $14.71.
So I went to Powells.com, my favorite Amazon alternative, and they had one copy left…
for $250. Sure, it’s a signed first edition and everything, but yeesh.
Ah! Like most things, this book must not yet be popular in the Midwest because all the bookstores I’ve been to - and I frequent all of them in town - have tons of copies. I actually got two for my birthday and had to return one. I wish I would have known people were having such a hard time. I could have sold it to the highest bidder :)