I am a special snowflake

[marycrawford]

Before seeing MirrorMask (and Roger Corman! And the world's first horror movie, made in 1910!) there was a little bookshopping. Oh, lovely Amsterdam and your lovely lovely bookshops.

Among others, I bought:

- "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, which sounded so delightfully whacked when therienne told me about it that I had to try it
- a PG Wodehouse biography
- a Jeeves & Wooster book by Wodehouse that was completely new to me ("Aunts Aren't Gentlemen")
- His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (US paperback to give to my dad, who loves dragon fantasy and Patrick O'Brian)

and...

*drumroll*

- THE THRONE OF JADE by Naomi Novik. The second Temeraire paperback! Amazon won't ship this for another five days, people. WHEE!

*is unbearably smug*

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

THE THRONE OF JADE by Naomi Novik. The second Temeraire paperback!

Cool! I'm re-reading the first one so I'll be ready when my copy of the second one gets here.

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Yay! And FYI, both English-language bookstores in Amsterdam had copies of Reliquary, The Wizard Hunters, Ships of Air and Gate of Gods. Mostly face out, too. :-)

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! I should move there. Apparently I do pretty well in France, too. :)

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

You *should*. Okay, so France has better food, but we have more English-language bookstores. And, um, canals! Gay marriage! Trams!

Mary, enticingly

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

Oh man, you and your smugness hurt me!

*sniff*

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Awww.

*is secretly still smug*