Interests Meme

[awanderingbard]

It's joonscribble's fault.



This collage has been removed by myself due to the fact that for some reason, several of the pictures were replaced with rather risqué images.

Comments

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm very lucky to have an AWESOME used mystery bookstore in my backyard where I picked up 20 or so Rex Stouts and many Bernard Cornwell's. Also there is a great library system here and I was able to read all the Sharpe's through it. (I stopped reading them a few years ago, I wasn't that interested in the India ones (where he is promoted to Ensign and then Lt.)

Which Sharpe did you read?

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Our local library is the pits. They did have a few Rex Stout books that I read, but nothing else of interest. Plus the library lady scares me and glares at everyone who comes in and gives you the most terrible look if you dare to ask her a question.

I read Sharpe's Tiger, actually. Which I think is chronologically the first one, but not the first written. He's in India in that one.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yep, chronologically the first. Not bad, and I love the scene where he saves Wellington (well, I think he was still Arthur Wellesley then). Sharpe's Rifles and Eagle are probably my two favorites and I think they are (going by year written) the first ones.

That stinks that your library is no good. Do you ever travel to where there is a better system?

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Our libraries around here all belong to the same system, I believe. I haven't checked the one across the street from the mall yet, though. Part of the problem is I don't know how to drive yet (I'm planning on learning, finally, in the Spring), so wherever I go I need to be driven and then someone has to drop it off again when it needs to be returned. I looked on the library computer for Jim Butcher books and the one I wanted was in a library about an hour away by drive (on the way to the cottage we stay at, actually) and you can't borrow them between libraries. I've since bought it for about the price it would have cause in gas to get down there to borrow it. ;-)

Apparently there is a mystery bookstore downtown, though, so one of these days I'll get down there to it and take a look.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Wow- what a dreadful library system! I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that the driving lessons go well and you can get to other libraries or that mystery bookstore soon!