Books in waiting

[mrissa]

the_red_shoes posted a list of books she wants this morning, and I thought it was interesting to read, but I couldn't do a list like that myself because my birthday is coming in less than a month, and I couldn't see any way not to make it sound like, "And this is what you should buy me! Everyone buy me things! All for meeeee!" what with the fuss I make over birthdays. (My birthday fuss is aimed at time with people and/or communication with people. Don't get me wrong, I like presents. But that's not the point of it.) (the_red_shoes doesn't make birthday fuss, so she doesn't have to worry about being misread.)

But! Then loupnoir asked about three fiction and three nonfiction books you have waiting for you, and that I can do with no fear of feeling grabby.

The nonfiction makes me sad, because I haven't been able to read nonfiction very well since the vertigo got bad. I'm hoping that'll ease up any day now, but in the meantime, I'm tearing through the fiction on my library list and ignoring the nonfiction completely. Three of the pieces of nonfiction that have been languishing on my book pile are The Wars of Louis XIV 1667-1714, A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland, and The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. Sigh.

On the fiction piles, we have elisem's anthology Glass Bead Games, which has stories by truepenny and matociquala and other things by kalmn and casacorona and others. And there's Pat Barker's Double Vision from the library, and there's Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind for when I need something lengthy and portable, because I have it in paperback, nearly as deep as it is broad. And there are lots of others, owned and library, some whims and some recommendations and so on.

How about you? What books are waiting for you?

Comments

[biguglymandoll.livejournal.com]

Ah, I just missed you! ;-> We left in '77 after being there 5 years - Dad was Air Force. We lived in Papillion; I still remember Tara Heights Elementary.

Re: Reading material w/out shelf space - very cool! I'll be reading!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I know exactly where Tara Heights Elementary is. We were the Ralston district -- Blumfield Elementary, Ralston Middle School, Ralston High.

Papillion has changed a lot in the last 30 years, especially in the last 10. I think up until about 1997 it would have looked mostly like the Papio you remember, but since then housing and businesses have just gone nuts out there.

omg

[biguglymandoll.livejournal.com]

I feel like I lose 20 years just typing the letters "OMG", but... LOL - that's hilarious. Last year I met a woman from Omaha who knew one of the few people I remember from those days (we're talking about 1st grade, so you know she stood out...) Too funny. We lived on the middle of Leprechaun Lane, a block down from the Tara Heights school.

I can imagine change, but it's hard to visualize. Does the watertower still have the huge butterfly painted on it? Donna Reid did the first one, when we were there - she used to babysit for me and my sister.

Sheesh, I'm geezing all over your blog! Sorry, I'll shut up. ;-) Anyway, nice to meet you!

Re: omg

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I know where Leprechaun Lane is. And yes, last I saw, there was still a butterfly on the water tower, though I didn't go to Papio the last couple of times I was in town.

Nice to meet you, too!