A bit of a hectic week this week! I just got another job (another bookstore!) – my current job will be finishing up at the end of this year – and started training for that this week as well as working at the other place still, catching up with good folk and planning our trip to Sydney to see our favourite band twice next year, summoning heavy rain fall which happens to coincide with Slash’s solo in “November Rain“. (No, really. We were sitting at a balcony at a bar having a few drinks and listening to the nostalgic 90s music the bar was playing. November Rain came on and Matt says to me, “wouldn’t it great if it just started raining as the solo came in.” Slowly, as the song progresses it starts getting overcast and dark. As the song is building toward the solo, it starts spitting with rain. The final solo comes in and torrential downpour! It was amazing, straight from a film.)
Every bookstore seems to be having massive sales at the moment, 
bookstores on ebay seem to be slashing their prices all over the place and the Book Depository now charge in Australian dollars with free worldwide shipping (and enter “HAPPY99X” at checkout for 10% off all purchases, the code will be valid until December 11). It’s just the waiting around for them to arrive that’s annoying. So much for the age of instant gratification.
- Carson McCullers: Her Life and Work by Oliver Evans
- The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
