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dream_labyrinth...but: READ!
I would do a lot to get this. Getting an ebay account doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
Except shipping's likely to cost more than the poster. Why can't I live in the US?
I like the READ posters. The ALA also has one with Hugh Laurie (with Treasure Island), and one of Alan Rickman (reading Catcher in the Rye), and Anthony Hopkins. I wouldn't mind Sean Connery, either... For some reason, Keira Knightley really doesn't look great on her posters, though.
Anyway, I think it's a great promotional idea.
*sigh* And Bowie would look great in my office.
There also is a Twilight poster. *snort*
Last week, two people ordered two books each of the series. Each one telling me they didn't want the books for themselves.
I am not going to buy them. I'm sorry, I don't care if we get fifty requests for them. They suck. They suck so badly I refuse to accept that it's a matter of taste. They seem to have been written by a fifteen-year-old after watching Interview with a Vampire 50 times straight.
When I ordered them from a colleague at another library we chatted about them a bit and I was greatly amused she hated them just as much as me. But she raised an interesting aspect as to why we should be happy to see this kind of book published. A large number of librarians are (supposedly) wannabe writers. And every horribly crappy book we come across (and as librarians, that happens a lot) shows us that it being badly written is no reason for publishers not to buy a manuscript. And that's good, right? Okay, a good manuscript might not get bought, but really, publishers will obviously buy anything. That gives us hope, doesn't it?
The weather sucks. I bought new running shoes and new shoes for marching - a larger size than the others. The guy at the sports shop almost had a heart attack when he saw my old running shoes. You're supposed to not wear them for longer than - two years, I think, and the model I had was like five years old. They had practically no tread left. There were holes in the tops, because I keep pulling up my toes. And one has a hole in the inside padding - pretty much there where that little bone that shouldn't be there above my heel pokes out.
So I spent a shitload of money on two pairs of shoes. And I still don't have new shoes for the office, though I need some sort of low shoe in brown and in black, and at least one pair of sandals I can wear with the insoles would be good.
The problem is, for office wear, I do not want sports shoes. I don't want shoes that look "sporty", I don't want shoes that have additional seams in odd places, I don't want shoes in two tones. I don't want something that looks like an orthopaedic shoe. Just because my feet are crappy doesn't mean everybody needs to know.
*sigh* It's hopeless. I'm going to browse here to look at shoes I could wear if I didn't need to stand and walk anywhere. (And maybe not even then, without breaking my neck.) Maybe I'll find something that will go well with the earrings I want to wear for the next ball. Then all I need is a dress...
I would do a lot to get this. Getting an ebay account doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
Except shipping's likely to cost more than the poster. Why can't I live in the US?
I like the READ posters. The ALA also has one with Hugh Laurie (with Treasure Island), and one of Alan Rickman (reading Catcher in the Rye), and Anthony Hopkins. I wouldn't mind Sean Connery, either... For some reason, Keira Knightley really doesn't look great on her posters, though.
Anyway, I think it's a great promotional idea.
*sigh* And Bowie would look great in my office.
There also is a Twilight poster. *snort*
Last week, two people ordered two books each of the series. Each one telling me they didn't want the books for themselves.
I am not going to buy them. I'm sorry, I don't care if we get fifty requests for them. They suck. They suck so badly I refuse to accept that it's a matter of taste. They seem to have been written by a fifteen-year-old after watching Interview with a Vampire 50 times straight.
When I ordered them from a colleague at another library we chatted about them a bit and I was greatly amused she hated them just as much as me. But she raised an interesting aspect as to why we should be happy to see this kind of book published. A large number of librarians are (supposedly) wannabe writers. And every horribly crappy book we come across (and as librarians, that happens a lot) shows us that it being badly written is no reason for publishers not to buy a manuscript. And that's good, right? Okay, a good manuscript might not get bought, but really, publishers will obviously buy anything. That gives us hope, doesn't it?
The weather sucks. I bought new running shoes and new shoes for marching - a larger size than the others. The guy at the sports shop almost had a heart attack when he saw my old running shoes. You're supposed to not wear them for longer than - two years, I think, and the model I had was like five years old. They had practically no tread left. There were holes in the tops, because I keep pulling up my toes. And one has a hole in the inside padding - pretty much there where that little bone that shouldn't be there above my heel pokes out.
So I spent a shitload of money on two pairs of shoes. And I still don't have new shoes for the office, though I need some sort of low shoe in brown and in black, and at least one pair of sandals I can wear with the insoles would be good.
The problem is, for office wear, I do not want sports shoes. I don't want shoes that look "sporty", I don't want shoes that have additional seams in odd places, I don't want shoes in two tones. I don't want something that looks like an orthopaedic shoe. Just because my feet are crappy doesn't mean everybody needs to know.
*sigh* It's hopeless. I'm going to browse here to look at shoes I could wear if I didn't need to stand and walk anywhere. (And maybe not even then, without breaking my neck.) Maybe I'll find something that will go well with the earrings I want to wear for the next ball. Then all I need is a dress...
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Date: 2009-04-18 06:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-18 06:09 pm (UTC)No, another transcontinental journey isn't on my list for at least a year, unfortunately.
You'll just have to make do without me, though I know it's going to be hard. ;-)
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Date: 2009-04-18 06:39 pm (UTC)I was going to offer to purchase that poster for you, so you could take it home...
anyone else coming that could get it to you?
And what would your max bid be?
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Date: 2009-04-18 06:42 pm (UTC)I don't think anybody from this side of the ocean that I know is going to Azkatraz, though.
Nah, I'll just have to decide whether I want it bad enough to pay for the shipping as well.
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Date: 2009-04-18 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 01:38 pm (UTC)I might get back to you about that...