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I currently have two of your system’s copies of Terry Pratchett’s Eric. I will continue to reserve and then hoard these books until I get your copy of Terry Pratchett’s Faust Eric, assuming you have one as your catalog indicates. Despite your insistence, I assure you they are not the same thing! One is illustrated and the other is a cheap paperback novel (of which I have two). Don’t make me keep this up until I find that every copy you have is the wrong one.

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You can get almost all of them online now, so I use the Washington Post for all but one. I stopped reading them forever ago, but my second time going to the Comics Curmudgeon I finally got into the site and fell in love with comic strips again. I start each session of reading with Apartment 3-G, which I had never seen or really heard of before, but the Curmudgeon helped me fall in love with it and then end each session with Mary Worth. Somehow ironic enjoyment of the soap-opera strips is never a let down unlike what can happen to even the funniest strip, so it’s the perfect beginning and ending.

My list of strips is a little eclectic- including the aforementioned soap operas, a few of the new, funny strips, and then a handful of old standards:
Apartment 3-G
Archie
Barney Google
Beetle Bailey
Dilbert
F Minus
For Better or For Worse
Garfield
Heathcliff
Hi and Lois
Lio
Marmaduke
Mary Worth
Pearls Before Swine
Piranha Club
Sally Forth
Slylock Fox

I mean, why would my reading include Beetle Bailey, but not something like Blondie? I really can’t answer that one. I can say that the reason I read, say, Hi and Lois, but not Doonesbury is that I just can’t keep up with/ get into Doonesbury again wheras there’s nothing to “get” about Hi and Lois (sometimes not even jokes). It also helps that CC covers a lot of the old saws, making them interesting in that respect.

So, most of you probably catch the whole comics section from a newspaper if you read them, if so do you have any favorites, recomendations or guilty pleasures? (Oh, Margo, will you ever learn?)

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I suppose it was bad timing that we found out Wednesday night that our current bluetooth adapters disappointingly didn’t work with someone’s brand new holiday gift keyboard. Well, Thanksgiving being out of the shopping picture I said we’d just go out the next day… and then the horror of reality struck. So I thought a strategy of going out in the afternoon when the mania should have dissipated might work. And it did well enough. Sure, it was crowded, but that was the worst of it. Still, having been out on a Black Friday and living to tell about it hasn’t made me any bolder about wanting to try it again next year. After all, it being the busiest shopping day of the year may be untrue, but I’m positive it is the trampliest.

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They’re a pleasant little series of children’s books that have come to prominence recently because the first book, City of Ember, was made into a movie with the ever popular Bill Murray and some gorgeous concept art. I ended up reading the first book because there were a few things in the movie that didn’t make a ding dang bit of sense and I wanted to see if they were in the book. For the most part they were not. The first and fourth books are fairly good kids’ adventure books, in my opinion and the second and third are slightly clumsy morality tales (correction: the third book is a terribly clumsy morality tale and a barely tangentially related preqeul that takes us away from our dashing protagonists). I think the last book was the best of the four, so if the author writes another book in the series I’ll be reading it.

If you have kids in the age range for an adventure movie then I suggest seeing the movie now or renting the dvd when it comes out. It’s got flaws, but Bill Murray is funny in his supporting role, and it’s quite pretty.

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