sometimes i throw things into my amazon.com shopping cart just to watch their prices fluctuate. i've been watching this oddity drop about 15-30 cents a day. it's almost like a mini-lottery or something. i get excited to see the number every morning (this book started out at a whalloping $70). i watched the Georgetown book that i want drop from $38 to $16.30. good thing i didn't buy it back when i was hankering for it. now i can pick it up for a much more reasonable price. i'm holding out a little longer, though it hasn't dropped any for several weeks now. the other one, however, is still steadily dropping.

and this is the sort of thing that tells me that i have no life.

: o p

i also want this, but the library has it, so i am going to check it out and read it and then decide about it.

and a new book about Eddy just came out, which i will naturally have to have for my collection. i want harrison's biography too, but it's selling for $100! gad.

of course, i want all these books, but i have no time anymore to read them, it would seem. the drifts are getting rather high at my house and i'm still quite a ways from making the [livejournal.com profile] 50bookchallenge (reading Stephenson hasn't helped there any, either). i have four books on the burner (four and a half, really), but i think that leaves me still short unless i pull an all-weekend read-in before new years. right now, that sounds like heaven on earth to me, frankly.

i've gone from working-in-the-libray euphoria to working-in-the-library despair lately. so many books. so little time.

: D

From: (Anonymous)

oooh!


Eddy! I'm totally fascinated by the guy. I can't believe there aren't even any publisher blubs there --foo. I wonder if it's reviewed somewhere? I'll look.

Don't despair, Boo! Working in a library is a very very nice thing...don't let it overwhelm you. :-)

I flaked on my reading totally. I opened Montmorency and read about 10 pages (that I loved--T.Y., again.) but never managed to get back to it. I'll begin again in the New Year.

I had the same experience with a toaster on amazon. I finally purchased it at $9.99 maybe if I'd held out a little longer it would have been FREE hahahaha

moo

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Re: oooh!


aronson's book on Eddy was a fun romp ~ there aren't too many that aren't strictly Jack the Ripper related, so when they turn up, i try to grab them.

even the harrison biography got repackaged as a Jack the Ripper thing. i might get a copy, but i'd rather have the original.

some good picts of Eddy have gone by on ebay lately too (my cousin always alerts me) ~ i just can't afford 'em anymore. too bad.

: D

p.s. i am writing a story about a moo-cow. it's not about you, but it has your spirit in it.

From: (Anonymous)

Re: oooh!


yeah zactly (about Eddy) I feel like everything we know about him is a bit tainted by the J.T.R deal. sigh. I'm not sure why he is such a compelling figure to me but he is.

I'm wondering what my "spirit" might be --but whatever you mean, I'm infinitely touched by that (seriously) and wish you great good luck with the story and wouldn't mind being invited to read it sometime. :-)

xoxo
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