Three long-term holds at the library all just turned up at once (long-term as in there are a lot of people on the list ahead of you).
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine.
Rubs hands with glee.
(I know, very horse-and-buggy. But I still like books.)
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Dhorvath, OM
October 13, 2011 at 4:41 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I love, love, love American Gods. Enjoy.
Ophelia Benson
October 13, 2011 at 5:15 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ya, my friend Claire read it recently and said it was fantastic.
It’s like Christmas!
'Tis Himself, OM
October 13, 2011 at 5:43 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Me too.
Ibis3, denizen of a spiteful ghetto
October 13, 2011 at 6:38 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Books. And libraries.
Jason Thibeault
October 13, 2011 at 7:09 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I like books too. I hear once upon a time they used to put them on trees! How quaint.
Deepak Shetty
October 13, 2011 at 10:17 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
You read Gaiman! How nice.
Aquaria
October 14, 2011 at 12:41 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It took that long to get American Gods? It was released a long time ago. I know I was listening to it on audiobook in 2008.
No, don’t give me crap, people, about listening to audiobooks. You try working data entry without them.
Grace
October 14, 2011 at 3:34 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I love books too, especially love when I get my holds all at once! Although if I can find a book on CD narrated by someone interesting, that is also awesome; it helps me with my insomnia, and depending on who’s narrating, helps put me right to sleep. Cordelia Fine’s book is quite excellent, I’ve referred it to others and they’ve enjoyed it immensely.
Jeremy Shaffer
October 14, 2011 at 7:29 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
American Gods is one of my favorite books around. It’s “sequal”, Anasi Boys is good as well.
Giliell, connaiseuse des choses bonnes
October 14, 2011 at 8:35 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
American Gods is wonderful
And I love books. There’s something erotic in the existence of real paper-books.
rocket stegosaurus
October 14, 2011 at 9:25 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I recommend Gaimain’s Sandman comics series over American Gods. Some characters from Sandman make appearances in the latter, apparently. (I read AG first, by several years, so I’m not sure which ones, besides Bast.)
Ophelia Benson
October 14, 2011 at 9:53 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It probably wouldn’t have taken that long to get American Gods if I had realized it had been re-issued in a 10th anniversary edition (which is longer than the original). I thought it was new, and put a hold on the first item on the list; probably farther down there were holdless copies of the 2001 edition.
Brother Yam
October 14, 2011 at 12:06 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
American Gods is possibly my favorite book. Possibly. But catch me on a different day…
Anyway, enjoy.
Dhorvath, OM
October 14, 2011 at 1:47 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I can just see my data set full of Gaiman prose. Data entry and I require non verbal music.
Deepak Shetty
October 14, 2011 at 8:09 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment
@rocket stegosaurus
And once you are done with sandman – follow it with Lucifer.
Traci
October 17, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Enjoy Delusions of Gender, I read that earlier this year and it rocked my world.