Robots and Scarves
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osprey_archerDowntown this weekend, we found a doll museum: one little room chockablock with dolls, standing on shelves, atop bookcases, lining the aisles, two whole bookcases of Shirley Temples. A soft incandescent glow lit their faces, and in the light the dolls were lovely, but so many of them - so many of them - they would be terrifying in the darkness.
No photos allowed, so I didn't take any. There was a Lucrezia Borgia doll, dressed all in red velvet, who looked so like an evil queen of Narnia - oh, I so wanted a photo of that one.
Other photos, though! We found a fantasy-SF-mystery bookstore (!!!!!) called Robots and Rogues (or Rogues and Robots?); it was a robot-ful weekend.
I found a copy of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin for a mere four dollars, and snapped it up, naturally. I've been hearing about that book for years and still haven't read it.
We didn't stay too long, but next time I'll see if they have Mary Russell's Nine Coaches Waiting, which no one seems to have anywhere anymore. Well, Amazon has it, but getting books from Amazon is so unromantic - so ungothic - sometimes you want the physical copy of a book to have a story behind it, the tale of your quest to find it.
And then Rachel left on Sunday morning, and I met Chelsea for crepes and croissants at the adorable college cafe. Mmmm, chocolate croissants.
No photos allowed, so I didn't take any. There was a Lucrezia Borgia doll, dressed all in red velvet, who looked so like an evil queen of Narnia - oh, I so wanted a photo of that one.
Other photos, though! We found a fantasy-SF-mystery bookstore (!!!!!) called Robots and Rogues (or Rogues and Robots?); it was a robot-ful weekend.
I found a copy of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin for a mere four dollars, and snapped it up, naturally. I've been hearing about that book for years and still haven't read it.
We didn't stay too long, but next time I'll see if they have Mary Russell's Nine Coaches Waiting, which no one seems to have anywhere anymore. Well, Amazon has it, but getting books from Amazon is so unromantic - so ungothic - sometimes you want the physical copy of a book to have a story behind it, the tale of your quest to find it.
And then Rachel left on Sunday morning, and I met Chelsea for crepes and croissants at the adorable college cafe. Mmmm, chocolate croissants.
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Date: 2013-03-05 03:13 pm (UTC)I know what you mean. I'm quite happy to buy books on-line, especially if they're hard to find (and do, slightly more often than I should!) but it's so much better to go into a book shop and find them by chance, somehow. That moment of scouring the shelves and suddenly spotting a book you've been really wanting is just magic and I love it.
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Date: 2013-03-05 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-05 04:03 pm (UTC)Yes, all those dolls at night would be creepy. It's the no-blinking thing.
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Date: 2013-03-05 10:49 pm (UTC)Then it's just a matter of time before they pour off the shelves and smother you with love and chirps of "Mama! Mama!"
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Date: 2013-03-05 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-05 08:54 pm (UTC)But seriously: college cafes are *great*
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Date: 2013-03-05 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-06 01:20 am (UTC)"...and I didn't even have to leave the house! Awwww yeaaaah."
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Date: 2013-03-06 03:37 am (UTC)