Book Fair

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles had gotten up at ack o'clock and actually had toted five boxes of books to the Fandom High Gym before he "cheated."

Everything was now set up neatly on tables, and separated by genre.

There was also coffee and hot water urns, bottled water, and a variety of pastries and breads set on a table near the register.

The First Annual Fandom High Book Fair was open for business.

[ooc: Hang on to your collective hats while I get the OCD threads up, please.

Threads are UP. Whew. I think you all know how this works. Go look for a book. Up to you whether you find it or not. No, there is no magic/new age section. Yes, Giles has planned it that way.

That's it! Go to town! Wait. No. Stay here and buy stuff...]

Comments

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Parker," Elizabeth looked up from A Tale of Two Cities and smiled. "Drop it back whenever, or I'll come knocking. Did you want the sequel?"

Re: Fiction--Classics

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Please. I like the way that writer builds the suspense," Parker said, opening up a copy of The Buccaneers and skimming the first few pages. "How far did you get into the Demesnes novel? Ten pages? Or a hundred?"

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"No problem," Elizabeth said, reaching up for To Kill a Mockingbird. She stuck her tongue out at Parker. "I finished it, thank you very much. With rising disbelief the further I got through it."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker snickered. "That's sort of the point of those books. I just got Storms of Silver, and she made the leading man bisexual. Which I didn't even think was legal in a romance novel, but what the hell." She flipped through the Wharton, then held it up. "Have you read this one? Any good? I know it was completed by someone else after she died."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"Is it so the heroine can have a threesome with him and her extraordinarily good in bed, but oh-so-poor bit in the side?" Elizabeth asked. She glanced up at the book Parker was holding. "Can't say that I have, no."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Oooo. Now there's a thought." Parker spent a moment on that, then snapped out of it. "I think we'll have to wait 'til the next book to find out. And what the hell. I have to get this just for the title." Parker put The Buccaneers in her basket, and grinned. "I'll let you know if there's any classic pirates or ninjas in it."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"How many books has she written?" Elizabeth asked, slightly scared of the answer. She giggled. "Thanks... I think!" She looked back towards the books. "Okay. James, Henry..."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker counted out on her fingers silently for a moment, then said, "Five, I think. With another one coming out in August. Anyone who kills off the hero of one book by having the heroine cut off his head? Is having too much fun." She looked over at the other classics, then shook her head. "No more Dickens, damnit. Wait. Cyrano, yay."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth really did look scared by now. "I'm not sure who I fear more; the writer or her publisher for actually publishing that!" she admitted, grnning. She added The Bostonians to her pile. "No, not Dickens."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"The author is nuts. I wonder if the publisher *had* to publish because of deadlines?" Parker wondered. "I guess the next book will show. Hmm. Think I'm heading over to the Science section-- I want to see if there's anything on time travel I can find remotely understandable."

Re: Fiction--Classics

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth shrugged. "I wouldn't know; the most I know about publishing involves sending off journal articles," she said, grinning. "Have fun there. I think I'll skip science and head across to history perhaps."