Month: June 2013

In which I try to drum up traffic to my blog by posting an excerpt from the new Dashner book, The Eye of Minds

Michael spoke against…

I was thinking that perhaps I could post the first sentence out of some of the ARCs I picked up at BEA and really a whole sentence isn’t like totally plagiarizing especially if I then review the book because I believe copyright does allow for that sort of use.  I’m sure the publishers wouldn’t appreciate it since most ARCs have warnings that the contents may change before final publication.  (strokes chin)  Regardless of whether or not the publishers would object to this, I feel like it would be mean to me to try and tease you like that. Continue reading “In which I try to drum up traffic to my blog by posting an excerpt from the new Dashner book, The Eye of Minds”

Media Mail Delivery! The Post Office comes through…

Hey … did you know that there is a cheap way of shipping via the Post Office?  Well specifically shipping books (and I think CDs and DVDs as well).  It’s called Media Mail and it’s a bit of a secret because I don’t think I’ve ever seen it posted on the wall in the post office.  Just be warned that your packages may be inspected and it may take a while for delivery.  I sent my five envelopes out of my favorite Post Office (New York City by Penn Station) on Thursday and they arrived today which I am told is Wednesday.  Coast to Coast in under a week!  I wish I had priced what FedEx would have charged so I can compare but if you want to ship out a book…try media mail.  Also, anticipate it getting beat up in the process so try to protect it unless you don’t care how it arrives.

BEA 2013 Haul post

I find other people posting about all the things they got annoying and obnoxious so of course I’ve done one myself … because when you confess your own hypocrisy it stinks just a little bit less.

I could wait until all of my books come home to me … I mailed some to myself because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to transport them all.  These fears may have been unnecessary and since I didn’t pay for the tracking information there’s no way of knowing if those five media mail envelopes will ever arrive.  But they were the less important books to me and I felt that losing them wouldn’t be a great loss.  Shall we begin?  I may also talk about books I purchased on my trip…do people do haul posts on purchases?  Of course they do.  Exhibitionist shoppers.  My goodness I’m becoming some capitalist stooge. Continue reading “BEA 2013 Haul post”

Some people didn’t know what they were getting into: Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Some people return from New York City and promptly attend a touring production of Priscilla:  Queen of the Desert.  People like me.

According to me, I’ve had a very mixed experience with subscribing to the Pantages this season.  There was the fantastically funny Book of Mormon, the dreadful Jekyll & Hyde, the mixed bag that is Catch Me If You Can, the uncharming Beauty & the Beast, and now we have a bunch of drag queens lip syncing to pop hits of yesteryear.

Which, short of a book of mormon shoved up a young man’s ass, is the best thing they’ve had all season. Continue reading “Some people didn’t know what they were getting into: Priscilla Queen of the Desert”