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Since LJ is as close to a confessional as a Quaker-Pagan resident of the Information Parking Garage will ever frequent, here is a complete list of everything I purchased at Barnes and Noble this afternoon, with the able assistance of my daughter, who was kind enough to select the first four items:
1) a collection of substandard Easter-themed knock-knock jokes
2) a Pokemon book whose title I do not recall
3) a set of tiny Easter rubber stamps
4) Vivaldi's Four Seasons on CD (Abbey picked up a set of listening station earphones, grooved to "Spring" for a while, and said that I had to buy it. We are officially raising her right.)
5) A Baby Einstein board book (I'm kind of offended at the let's-make-us-an-Uberbaby concept involved, but Nik's already hooked on the videos. The damage is done.)
6) Daemonomania by John Crowley; quickly becoming my favorite writer of all time.
7) 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings, to hold me over until I feel like shelling out for the full collection
8) The Best American Erotica 2003, edited by the inimitable Susie Bright
9) Grace in Gravity by the Story
10) Visions and Dreams by Carrie Newcomer (I don't know how I've functioned for the eight years since I last heard this)
Things I almost bought but didn't:
Good Magic (pretty, but not of much use right now)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (I have trouble paying for books that I've already bought in the past, even if the person I lent my copy to is now two time zones away and will likely never contact me again)
Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, 25th Anniversary edition (see comment on Waking the Moon. Still: "Oooooo!")
Plumb by Jonatha Brooke (for someone else, but I can just as easily burn a dupe of mine)
August and Everything After, Counting Crows (I know already that I'd sit in my room, playing "Anna Begins" over and over again until I hang myself; $18.99 is more than I'm willing to pay for a pity party)
Thank the heavens for preferred reader memberships, or I'd have cracked the dreaded three-figure mark today. Note to self: Job going bye-bye. Shopping binges BAD, even if books and music GOOD.
1) a collection of substandard Easter-themed knock-knock jokes
2) a Pokemon book whose title I do not recall
3) a set of tiny Easter rubber stamps
4) Vivaldi's Four Seasons on CD (Abbey picked up a set of listening station earphones, grooved to "Spring" for a while, and said that I had to buy it. We are officially raising her right.)
5) A Baby Einstein board book (I'm kind of offended at the let's-make-us-an-Uberbaby concept involved, but Nik's already hooked on the videos. The damage is done.)
6) Daemonomania by John Crowley; quickly becoming my favorite writer of all time.
7) 100 Selected Poems by e.e. cummings, to hold me over until I feel like shelling out for the full collection
8) The Best American Erotica 2003, edited by the inimitable Susie Bright
9) Grace in Gravity by the Story
10) Visions and Dreams by Carrie Newcomer (I don't know how I've functioned for the eight years since I last heard this)
Things I almost bought but didn't:
Good Magic (pretty, but not of much use right now)
Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (I have trouble paying for books that I've already bought in the past, even if the person I lent my copy to is now two time zones away and will likely never contact me again)
Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, 25th Anniversary edition (see comment on Waking the Moon. Still: "Oooooo!")
Plumb by Jonatha Brooke (for someone else, but I can just as easily burn a dupe of mine)
August and Everything After, Counting Crows (I know already that I'd sit in my room, playing "Anna Begins" over and over again until I hang myself; $18.99 is more than I'm willing to pay for a pity party)
Thank the heavens for preferred reader memberships, or I'd have cracked the dreaded three-figure mark today. Note to self: Job going bye-bye. Shopping binges BAD, even if books and music GOOD.
