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Saturday greenery
Mar. 15th, 2003 03:33 pmThe hills are alive with shamrocks and Irish music. The local mall is hosting their Shamrock festival closing off one corner of the neighborhood. Judging by the beads and ugly hats, though, I keep thinking it's a green Mardi Gras instead. Real fun being one of normal pedastrians just trying to get *around* the party, of course. At least the weather is absolutely gorgeous! You'd never know several weeks ago we were groaning about the snow. Everyone is walking around in short sleeves.
Also discovered that the local BDaltons has a *strange* sense of displaying books. Noting the Sci Fi Channel's adaptations of the "Dune" books, I looked for the original book of the series on the shelf. They had most of the others, but not the original. That seemed strange so I asked one of the shelvers. Fortunately I found the SF person in the store. He led me straight to a book dump of the three books being adapted, hidden in an odd corner at the *other* entrance to the store which would actually be blocked from view through the windows by the other displays. Even he seemed to think that was a strange place to put the dump. One of the things I learned at my short stay at Borders was you *always* leave a book in the section, because some people do not see displays.
I also found the second Ruse graphic novel collection in a display at the front of the main store entrance I hadn't noticed coming into the store. I hadn't mentioned discovering this in a previous entry, but Ruse is published by CrossGen Comics and basically a Sherlock Holmesian style series with some supernatural/super-powers thrown in for good nature. The series only seems tangentially associated with the rest of the CrossGen universe which is one of those complex shared comics universes that I either love or hate.
Jasper Fforde's second Thursday Next book comes out at the end of the month. I'm rereading "Eyre Affair". Bizarre universe with lots of literary references.
Also discovered that the local BDaltons has a *strange* sense of displaying books. Noting the Sci Fi Channel's adaptations of the "Dune" books, I looked for the original book of the series on the shelf. They had most of the others, but not the original. That seemed strange so I asked one of the shelvers. Fortunately I found the SF person in the store. He led me straight to a book dump of the three books being adapted, hidden in an odd corner at the *other* entrance to the store which would actually be blocked from view through the windows by the other displays. Even he seemed to think that was a strange place to put the dump. One of the things I learned at my short stay at Borders was you *always* leave a book in the section, because some people do not see displays.
I also found the second Ruse graphic novel collection in a display at the front of the main store entrance I hadn't noticed coming into the store. I hadn't mentioned discovering this in a previous entry, but Ruse is published by CrossGen Comics and basically a Sherlock Holmesian style series with some supernatural/super-powers thrown in for good nature. The series only seems tangentially associated with the rest of the CrossGen universe which is one of those complex shared comics universes that I either love or hate.
Jasper Fforde's second Thursday Next book comes out at the end of the month. I'm rereading "Eyre Affair". Bizarre universe with lots of literary references.
