To Be Read

Mine.

Karen Green's Bough Down

I got this from the library and read it and reread it and then I didn't want to give it back, so I bought my own copy.

Goodwill Haul

Because I needed more books.

Goodwill Haul

Neil Gaiman and Judy Blume. It was a good day in bookhuntingland.

Goodwill Haul

Because I needed more books, oh yes, I did.

Goodwill Haul

Because I need more books.

Thrift Store Haul

Somewhere between putting it in my cart and getting it home, a William Sleator book went missing. I'm bummed about that, but it was still a really good thrifting day.

Shelfie

I've been cheating on "my" library with the public library. The result is that I have a whole lot books I need to get through.

Books and Meditations

I celebrated Independence Day by going to Goodwill and buying books, glorious books.



Polly celebrated by meditating.

Miniature Books

Miniature books at the Lilly Library.

The Final Tally

I didn't make it. I fell asleep at about 3am. I think that's about when I ran out of steam last time, too.

This was the final tally.

House of Stairs

Starting to get tired.

Back to It

I took an hour off to watch Star Trek. Now onward!

How I Live Now

Next up.

Ghost Story Time

Something a Little Lighter

Pictures of Hollis Woods was excellent. I love Patricia Reilly Giff. It made me cry so hard my head hurts, though, so I'm going to switch gears and read about Ramona's shenanigans.

You can't get your arms around it

Pictures of Hollis Woods, page 23.

Up Next

And onward!

Is There an Editor in the House?

This book was clearly converted from paper to text via OCR. You can tell by the lack of spacing in passages of dialogue, making it seem as if the characters are talking to themselves, and by the peculiar substitution of Em and Ell for I'm and I'll, and alsoplustoo by the frequent instances where multiple words are run together.

Normally, you'd expect a human editor to clean up that mess.  But you might also expect a human editor to have caught the misuse of "their" in the print version that the digital copy was made from. In both cases, you would be WRONG.

And this was not a 99 cent special from Bob's Backyard DIY Publishing Shack, either. I paid $6.00 for that load of crap, which was published by St. Martin's Press.