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Exclusive Books is having its summer sale, and some unsung hero in the Cavendish branch has gone and cleaned out the back room for sf and fantasy. Today I scored Robin McKinley's Sunshine for thirty bucks, which is a Good Omen of somethingorother, I've been dying for a copy. I really recommend this one, it's a fascinating take on vampires and a really, really interesting world. They had lots of Sunshine, as well as several copies of McKinley's Beauty, Diana Wynne Jones's Tough Guide to Fantasyland, Jasper Fforde's Something Rotten, which is the best one of his I've read, lots of the kids' Terry Pratchett, Charles Stross's Singularity Sky in hardback (trippy and fun), and the third one in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, although I don't have the first two yet (*watches Amazon wishlist grow to mutant monster proportions with a certain apprehension*). Anyway, Cheap Books R Us, Capetonians. Get ye down there and spend surprisingly little for stonkloads of literary weight.

I must be learning something vaguely approaching self-discipline. Look'n'Listen had a whole bunch of early Eurythmics CDs that I only have on tape, in imported special editions with lots of bonus tracks, and I was so torn between buying one of the possible four that I didn't buy any. Revenge? Savage? Touch? What to choose! (I find it somewhat telling that their reunion album is called Peace, suggesting a slight failure of edge somewhere along the line).

In other news, the bonus material on the Serenity DVD is tres cool, lovely interviews, blooper reel and behind-the-scenes footage. That Nathan Fillion, he's a clown. Did I mention that it's out in video stores in CT? It's out in video stores :>. Go ye forth and watch.

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In a vain attempt to see whether we could get hold of Serenity for tonight, I called round. Three different places had them all booked. Cineland laughed a lot. Blockbusters had to look it up on the system because the person on the phone didn't know it. The place across the road from us, though, I can't find. I'm positive it's called Vee's, yet the telephone directory doesn't list them, and the Obs branch has never heard of them.

(No apostrophes in that one ;))

Just got "Sunshine" from the library, hadn't even realised it was out, thanks for mentioning it the other day. Can't wait to get stuck in. Also, watched "Serenity", really enjoyed it, and thoroughly enjoyed the bloopers and extras. Tres cool!

Er, that was moi, everymoment.

Let me know what you think of Sunshine? My Evil Landlord just read it, but, other than admitting, when prodded, that the world is interesting, has declined, fairly characteristically, to comment. It's a bit classic-McKinley-Mills'n'Boon at times, but manages to interestingly undercut even that.

Loving it so far, stayed up far too late last night, ignored my children far too much to keep reading :>
World is very cool indeed, love the detail of it. I'm sure I'll have more to say when I finish it.
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