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eliyesToday we went to a comic shop, a used bookstore, and a new bookstore.
At the comic shop, I bought nothing. I did tell them what I thought of their new layout (it sucks in terms of traffic flow)... just as the music in the shop stopped playing. Basically everyone heard me. *sigh*
Skipping ahead, at the new bookstore (by which I mean, the store that sells new books) I was hoping to get Cryoburn but they didn't have it. Apparently only two stores in the area have it, and they are both very far away. *shakes fist* It's the new Vorkosigan book, and I really want to read it, so I guess I'll order it from Amazon.ca.
At the used bookstore, I hit the jackpot. >3 This is a store with floor-to-ceiling books, on two levels. The only problem with that is that sometimes you need a ladder to see the shelves, and I... have an issue with ladders. But today, I climbed that ladder! Yes! And then I moved it further along and climbed it again! At one point I had one arm stuck through the stairwell to the second level so that I wouldn't lean over too far and fall. (The scifi/fantasy section is under the stairwell.) Even over and above the arguable merit of confronting one of my fears, it was well worth it for what I found. :3
Firstly, I got The Death of Sleep (which was actually in a box under the ladder; I sat on the floor as well~) by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye, which is good because I've had Sassinak since I was a teen and always wondered where the heck Lunzie came from. That was the only non-Trek book I purchased.
I found the first two print compilations of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series in paperback for $4 a pop, so I bought those: Have Tech, Will Travel and Miracle Workers. Yay! I'd only been able to find the more recent stuff, and mostly as trade paperbacks... which are fine 'n' all, but a little heavier to pack to read at work. ^^;
I don't know which of the remaining two purchases I'm more excited about. Okay, I think I've mentioned that L.A. Graf is basically my fave name to see in the author's slot on a TOS novel, and primarily this is because I love how they1 write the friendship between Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura.
So imagine my glee when I found a book where those three stay planetside on a colony world to help the settlers while the Enterprise patrols the sector. Rough Trails, it's called. Book 3 of the Star Trek: New Earth series, not that I plan to bother with the rest of the series. I anticipate another lovely slice of adventure and friendship. And Chekov whump. There's always Chekov whump in their TOS stuff, it's one of their main clichés.
I will be on the look out for the following:
Chekov vs. Man (he fights someone, or several someones, at least twice, and is hurt during at least one of these)
Chekov vs. Nature (he struggles, usually alone, against the dangers of nature -- which can include the vacuum of space)
Chekov vs. Himself (he struggles with his own feelings: inadequacy, grief, anger, fear, whatever)
Chekov vs. McCoy (he attempts to escape from the doctor or Sickbay -- sometimes he even succeeds!)
Sulu the Awesome Pilot
Cheerful Bickering About Food
and probably also some McCoy Is Cranky Love, which usually gets in there whether he's a major character in the plot or not.
The last item I bought was also written by L.A. Graf but it's not exactly a book. It's an "Audio Adventure" which I'd say isn't technically an audiobook, because it was never done in print. Envoy -- probably the only one of the Captain Sulu Adventures I'll ever find, but hey -- I found it!
George Takai reading the adventures of Captain Sulu and the USS Excelsior, written by one of my fave Sulu writers? I am so totally there.
And then I had a yummy sandwich from the deli. :9
1 "They" is used literally here; "L.A. Graf" is actually multiple writers. Usually Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone, and once also including Melissa Crandall.
At the comic shop, I bought nothing. I did tell them what I thought of their new layout (it sucks in terms of traffic flow)... just as the music in the shop stopped playing. Basically everyone heard me. *sigh*
Skipping ahead, at the new bookstore (by which I mean, the store that sells new books) I was hoping to get Cryoburn but they didn't have it. Apparently only two stores in the area have it, and they are both very far away. *shakes fist* It's the new Vorkosigan book, and I really want to read it, so I guess I'll order it from Amazon.ca.
At the used bookstore, I hit the jackpot. >3 This is a store with floor-to-ceiling books, on two levels. The only problem with that is that sometimes you need a ladder to see the shelves, and I... have an issue with ladders. But today, I climbed that ladder! Yes! And then I moved it further along and climbed it again! At one point I had one arm stuck through the stairwell to the second level so that I wouldn't lean over too far and fall. (The scifi/fantasy section is under the stairwell.) Even over and above the arguable merit of confronting one of my fears, it was well worth it for what I found. :3
Firstly, I got The Death of Sleep (which was actually in a box under the ladder; I sat on the floor as well~) by Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye, which is good because I've had Sassinak since I was a teen and always wondered where the heck Lunzie came from. That was the only non-Trek book I purchased.
I found the first two print compilations of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers series in paperback for $4 a pop, so I bought those: Have Tech, Will Travel and Miracle Workers. Yay! I'd only been able to find the more recent stuff, and mostly as trade paperbacks... which are fine 'n' all, but a little heavier to pack to read at work. ^^;
I don't know which of the remaining two purchases I'm more excited about. Okay, I think I've mentioned that L.A. Graf is basically my fave name to see in the author's slot on a TOS novel, and primarily this is because I love how they1 write the friendship between Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura.
So imagine my glee when I found a book where those three stay planetside on a colony world to help the settlers while the Enterprise patrols the sector. Rough Trails, it's called. Book 3 of the Star Trek: New Earth series, not that I plan to bother with the rest of the series. I anticipate another lovely slice of adventure and friendship. And Chekov whump. There's always Chekov whump in their TOS stuff, it's one of their main clichés.
I will be on the look out for the following:
Chekov vs. Man (he fights someone, or several someones, at least twice, and is hurt during at least one of these)
Chekov vs. Nature (he struggles, usually alone, against the dangers of nature -- which can include the vacuum of space)
Chekov vs. Himself (he struggles with his own feelings: inadequacy, grief, anger, fear, whatever)
Chekov vs. McCoy (he attempts to escape from the doctor or Sickbay -- sometimes he even succeeds!)
Sulu the Awesome Pilot
Cheerful Bickering About Food
and probably also some McCoy Is Cranky Love, which usually gets in there whether he's a major character in the plot or not.
The last item I bought was also written by L.A. Graf but it's not exactly a book. It's an "Audio Adventure" which I'd say isn't technically an audiobook, because it was never done in print. Envoy -- probably the only one of the Captain Sulu Adventures I'll ever find, but hey -- I found it!
George Takai reading the adventures of Captain Sulu and the USS Excelsior, written by one of my fave Sulu writers? I am so totally there.
And then I had a yummy sandwich from the deli. :9
1 "They" is used literally here; "L.A. Graf" is actually multiple writers. Usually Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone, and once also including Melissa Crandall.
