Students say the darnedest things…
“Miss, Miss! An apostrophe has happened! Oh my gawd! I need your keys I can’t get into the studio. Oh my gawd it’s an apostrophe!”
FREE BOOKS!
Okay, so I have a fuckload (accurate quantity) of books that I don’t want/need. They are primarily uncorrected proofs or damages that I’ve collected over seven years working in a bookstore. If you want any in particular, let me know and I’ll put your name on them and give them to you next time I see you. Of course you’re welcome to pick them up also. I want them gone, please take them off me!
Titles:
The Seventh Wave – Paul Garrety
Astropolis Book 1: Saturn Returns – Sean Williams
Shalador’s Lady – Anne Bishop
The Secret Ones –Nicole R. Murphy
The Pilgrims – Will Elliot
Tymon’s Flight – Mary Victoria
The Faraday Girls – Monica McInerney
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke
The Dwarves – Markus Heitz
Alyson Noel – Evermore: the immortals
Amandine – Marlena de Blasi
Forsaken: the demon trappers – Jana Oliver
Flight – Rosie Dub
Hourglass – Claudia Gray
Plugged – Eoin Colfer
0.4 – Mike Lancaster
Love, Aubrey – Suzanne LaFleur
More Than You Can Say – Paul Torday
The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff
Halo – Alexandra Adornetto
Lost Souls – Poppy Z. Brite
The 13 Curses – Michelle Harrison
Twilight of Avalon – Anna Elliott
Past the Shallows – Favel Parrett
The Guardian Angel’s Journal – Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Mercy – Rebecca Lim
The Real Kate Lavender – Erica James
Currawalli Street – Christopher Morgan
The Emerald Atlas – John Stephens
The Secret River – Kate Grenville
Disharmony – Leah Giarratano
The Left Hand of God – Paul Hoffman
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army – Kayla Williams
Anthropology of an American Girl – Hilary Thayer Hamann
Left Neglected – Lisa Genova
Taboo – Casey Hill
The Terror of Living – Urban Waite
Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks
Next of Kin – Elizabeth Egholm
The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan
Harbour – John Ajvide Lindqvist
World Without End – Ken Follett
The Butterfly Cabinet – Bernie McGill
The Younger Man – Zoe Foster
The Sending – Isobelle Carmody
Devil’s Gate – Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Nowhere Man – John M. Green
Secrets of the Wolves- Dorothy Hearst
Songs of the Earth – Elspeth Cooper
Cemetary Dance – Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Shadow’s Son – Jon Sprunk
Matterhorn – Karl Marlantes
The Fall – Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Elves Once Walked With Gods – James Barclay
The Ragged Man – Tom Lloyd
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner – Stephanie Meyer
A Darkness Forged in Fire – Chris Evans
The Fall of Ossard – Colin Taber
The Steel Remains – Richard Morgan
Shadow Prowler – Alexei Pehov
House Rules – Jodi Picoult
Wizard Squared – K. E Mills
Armageddon’s Children – Terry Brooks
Beautiful Death – Fiona Mcintosh
The Opposite of Me – Sarah Pekkanen
In the Blood – Adrian Phoenix
The Hollow – Jessica Verday
The Complaints – Ian Rankin
The Devil’s Tears – Stephen Horne
Sixteen Shades of Crazy – Rachel Trezise
Good Luck Girl – Kerry Reichs
The Crucifix Killer – Chris Carter
An old man asks, “What’s the most popular book at the moment?”
I reply, “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
“What’s it about?”
A number of answers come to my mind: It’s not about ANYTHING, it’s just two people having sex all the time. It’s Twilight fanfiction. It’s utter rubbish. It makes me despair for humanity, that sort of thing.
“Er… you know, it’s a love story. An erotic romance. Er… bondage and stuff.”
The old man buys it anyway
"My world ends on a regular basis."
— Lisa Mitchell’s Oh! Hark!
"The shadow of night is drawn like a black veil across the earth, and since almost all creatures, from one meridian to the next, lie down after the sun has set, so, he continues, one might, in following the setting sun, see on our globe nothing but prone bodies, row upon row, as if leveled by the scythe of Saturn - an endless graveyard for a humanity struck by falling sickness."
— The Rings of Saturn, by W G Sebald.
Cassy had a gift for tearing things apart. In class, when the teacher was distracted with other students (which was all the time) she would line up a piece of paper at the edge of the desk and when it was just right - rip it into two. Then she would lay the two halves on top of each other and observe that she had once again cleaved the piece exactly in two with just her eyes, her hands and the edge of her desk. When she got bored of ripping paper, Cassy would draw circles and then intersect each circle with a perfect line, straight down the middle. Again, she would contemplate for a moment her exacting halves before moving on to her next activity. At lunch time, Cassy was not allowed to play tag with the other children because she only has one kidney. So she would sit on the steps alone (halfway up, halfway down) and eat her lunch in her particular way - half an apple, half a sandwich and half a slice of cheese. It was then that Cassy liked to imagine there was another little girl - halfway across the country - who was at that moment, doing the exact same thing.
dorameanly asked: nat i wish you posted on here more often. i am in love with your mind. and also your face. i miss you, lovely, wonderful girl.
Tara you are The Sweetest! Everyone needs one of you to say lovely things about them to make them happy. Like a verbal hug - you’re Lotso Huggin Bear, only not evil. And I miss you too and would like to demand please a catch-up soon. Love.
The problem with my life is that I don’t have one.
I stated that fact and didn’t need a thousand words. So yes tumblr, it CAN be done.
