jaythebooknerd
Vancouver October 2009
This isn't Vancouver -- it's my backyard with a deer wondering what the hell I'm doing creeping gradually closer and closer, snapping pictures of it from behind the stack of books I picked up while I was in the city last weekend.
In the hipster-doofus bookstore Pulp Fiction (my kind of bookstore) I found Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital which I read from the library and loved loved loved as well as another Murakami (which the girl behind the counter said was her fav and one of M's weirder ones [which is saying something]) and two John Varley's (I was extremely happy to find the out of print The Persistence of Vision short story collection (replaced by his collected stories now) - the title story is one of his best. Many thanks to Spider Robinson and his podcast at www.spiderrobinson.com/podcast.html for introducing me this master. (Follow the link and scroll down to find Robinson reading POV on 11/9/08.)
The other books, less in style than the above, Tanith Lee, Micheal Moorcock and the pulp master Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame, though these seem to be western stories), I got at the former Bookworm, now Anna's Books, on the cheap which is the great thing about the old pocket paperbacks, the same number of words as the tradepaper backs, amazingly exploitative covers of questionable taste, yet for around 3 bucks Canadian.
So I took another step closer and the deer got up and walked off to find a less odd backyard to sleep in. It wasn't going to get any rest anyways - I had to let Haley and Annie (see my past bookstacks) out to use their open-air washroom and they usually bay horribly and send any deer running for the hills
Vancouver October 2009
This isn't Vancouver -- it's my backyard with a deer wondering what the hell I'm doing creeping gradually closer and closer, snapping pictures of it from behind the stack of books I picked up while I was in the city last weekend.
In the hipster-doofus bookstore Pulp Fiction (my kind of bookstore) I found Chris Adrian's The Children's Hospital which I read from the library and loved loved loved as well as another Murakami (which the girl behind the counter said was her fav and one of M's weirder ones [which is saying something]) and two John Varley's (I was extremely happy to find the out of print The Persistence of Vision short story collection (replaced by his collected stories now) - the title story is one of his best. Many thanks to Spider Robinson and his podcast at www.spiderrobinson.com/podcast.html for introducing me this master. (Follow the link and scroll down to find Robinson reading POV on 11/9/08.)
The other books, less in style than the above, Tanith Lee, Micheal Moorcock and the pulp master Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame, though these seem to be western stories), I got at the former Bookworm, now Anna's Books, on the cheap which is the great thing about the old pocket paperbacks, the same number of words as the tradepaper backs, amazingly exploitative covers of questionable taste, yet for around 3 bucks Canadian.
So I took another step closer and the deer got up and walked off to find a less odd backyard to sleep in. It wasn't going to get any rest anyways - I had to let Haley and Annie (see my past bookstacks) out to use their open-air washroom and they usually bay horribly and send any deer running for the hills