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queensthiefWith all the excitement of Meg's Road Trip....
Just thought I'd ask/raise awareness of the Eugenides Sharing Gene, aka, How Have You Raised Attolian Awareness Today? (what a Tshirt slogan THAT is.)
For instance - our library offered little suggestion slips to all readers - you know, which books have you enjoyed recently?-type things. Your comments were then posted on a display case next to the book in question, so visitors could try out your favorites, too.
Well, three guesses what books were in MY top ten...Meg, my fave and awesome librarian (besides for sharing a name with a fave and awesome author, natch) bounced over to me the next time I was there to excitedly tell me that Thief, QoA and KoA were 'going like hotcakes'! I was thrilled. Gotta share the goodness around.
I also wrote to Sharyn November, editor of Firebird Books. I admit I must have sounded slightly mad, I was slavering so lavishly over the books, but one can a fan do? She was very sweet, she told me that "generally Meg's fans are omnivorous readers". Hear that, people? "omnivorous readers". Swweeeeeeeeeeeet. I feel omnivorous already.
I also heard that The Dresden Files had a whole "bookshelf club" - y'know, every time a fan saw a customer anywhere NEAR the books at Barnes & Nobles or Borders or whatever, they praised it to the skies until the poor hapless lucky new fan-to-be left the store with the book...
So, let's raise awareness! Let's wear little buttons (slogans, anyone), decorate our cars with bumper stickers (ditto), become gently aggressive bookshelf clubbers, enthuse to our librarians....
Just thought I'd ask/raise awareness of the Eugenides Sharing Gene, aka, How Have You Raised Attolian Awareness Today? (what a Tshirt slogan THAT is.)
For instance - our library offered little suggestion slips to all readers - you know, which books have you enjoyed recently?-type things. Your comments were then posted on a display case next to the book in question, so visitors could try out your favorites, too.
Well, three guesses what books were in MY top ten...Meg, my fave and awesome librarian (besides for sharing a name with a fave and awesome author, natch) bounced over to me the next time I was there to excitedly tell me that Thief, QoA and KoA were 'going like hotcakes'! I was thrilled. Gotta share the goodness around.
I also wrote to Sharyn November, editor of Firebird Books. I admit I must have sounded slightly mad, I was slavering so lavishly over the books, but one can a fan do? She was very sweet, she told me that "generally Meg's fans are omnivorous readers". Hear that, people? "omnivorous readers". Swweeeeeeeeeeeet. I feel omnivorous already.
I also heard that The Dresden Files had a whole "bookshelf club" - y'know, every time a fan saw a customer anywhere NEAR the books at Barnes & Nobles or Borders or whatever, they praised it to the skies until the
So, let's raise awareness! Let's wear little buttons (slogans, anyone), decorate our cars with bumper stickers (ditto), become gently aggressive bookshelf clubbers, enthuse to our librarians....
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Date: 7/23/07 03:55 am (UTC)Welcome!
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Date: 7/23/07 04:11 am (UTC)Yes...you are completely right. Rather embarrassingly, I never really found ancient Greece of much interest (and me being a history buff, for shame.) But after reading the Gen trilogy, I found subsequent visits to Greek-stylized ruins doubly fascinating, and I've based a whole bunch of projects on Greece and its history.
Life imitating Art, indeed!
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Date: 7/23/07 04:12 am (UTC)Sorry avian for stealing your awesome comment :D
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Date: 7/23/07 03:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/23/07 04:14 am (UTC)"eagle to base, eagle to base...suspect is turning book around. Again. Yes, yes, MWT book, naturally....do I call the authorities, base? I repeat...Yes, sir. No, sir. Fading into the Eyre Affair aisle now, Eagle out."
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Date: 7/23/07 05:11 am (UTC)and then there is this extra copy of KoA that I have since i bought the paperback for the short story. I'm thinking of sending it off to princeton with Nick...
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Date: 7/23/07 09:07 am (UTC)I've been poking the library I work at to get the books for almost 2 years.
I've been gushing about the books loads. *goes off to
wreak havocspread awareness*no subject
Date: 7/25/07 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 7/29/07 04:23 am (UTC)uh...wow! Hi! *Sophos blush coming on*
sergeantscott2@yahoo.com. Yep, that's me. I ran on for several pages, as I recall. But it was great fun.
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Date: 7/23/07 03:36 pm (UTC)Checkers, thank you for reminding me. I need to make hamster-Gen
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Date: 7/23/07 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/24/07 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/23/07 03:42 pm (UTC)*feeds the wolves cookies and the crickets tea.* nice wolves *pets*
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Date: 7/25/07 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/25/07 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/29/07 04:29 am (UTC)Great way to keep down the wolf population. Excellent. It's the werewolf last full moon that must of given the crickets indigestion, then. They've been erratic ever since.
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Date: 7/29/07 11:58 am (UTC)Carrots?
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Date: 7/29/07 10:22 pm (UTC)Their eating the bullfrogs, of course.
Really, it only began to get problematic because they'd finished all the skeletons in the closet, and since the bullfrogs have begun protesting under the Respect for Sentience Protection Clause, it's become rather difficult.
If you know what I mean.
I never realized carnivorous crickets could be so complicated, but that's what ecosystems are, aren't they.
Sigh.
I think we're running out of bullfrogs, though.
Carrots.
*Shudder*
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Date: 7/23/07 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 7/30/07 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/23/07 10:43 pm (UTC)By the way, I'm new here - I've lurked on and off in this forum since it was started, but I'm not really a livejournal girl (xanga is my hunting ground) so I haven't been a regular. I don't really know livejournal etiquette, so I'm sorry if this is a rude way to appear in this forum... :-\ My only defense is that I read the Thief and had a crush on Eugenides before QoA was even written, so does that give me a Get Out of Jail Free card? :-)I'm an huge fan, though, and spent the years between QoA and KoA typing "Megan Whalen Turner" into Amazon.com to see when the next Gen moment would happen. I'm hoping to see her in Boston on the 4th - WOW - so we'll see...
Hope to be around for awhile yet!
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Date: 7/24/07 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 7/24/07 07:31 am (UTC)You too?! That's fantastic! Welcome!!!!
we all love Gen
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Date: 7/24/07 03:34 pm (UTC)Er, that strange sound of a choking, hyperventilating dolphin? That was me, laughing my head off. *snortgigglesnorfle*
Welcome!
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Date: 7/24/07 07:05 pm (UTC)Haha! I love it. Sounds like a good book advertizing tactic, I may have to employ it...
Judy Blume ...
Date: 7/24/07 07:57 pm (UTC)Welcome!
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Date: 7/31/07 05:14 pm (UTC)*chokes*
Do you mind if I steal that idea? I'm not quite sure what I'll do with it yet, but it sounds like a great forum signature... or maybe an animated icon...