Meanwhile, I'm away again...

[bedlamsbard]

See, I've barely been back from California three days and already I'm away from home. I'm in Seattle right now, going to the UW Bioengineering Summer Camp, and will be till Friday. Just so everybody wasn't wondering where I'd disappeared to. See, I brought my laptop (a crappy clamshell iBook), but I can't seem to get it to hook up to the Internet in my hotel room (they don't have WiFi - as if I'd know how to use that). I am working on "Omerta", but unless I can get my laptop to hook up to the Internet, you guys won't be seeing any of it till Friday at the earliest.

Isn't this annoying? I was just beginning to recover from my Internet withdrawal, and now I'm away from it again. Damn summer activities!

Also, I'm remembering why I like living in the country. Although some parts of the city do have their good points. Namely, Pike Place Market. Hurrah, comic book store! Used book store! ...which doesn't have the books I want. (Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War and Gone, Baby, Gone. Anybody have any recs while I'm in the proximity of, like, twenty actual bookstores?

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[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

a crappy clamshell iBook
Spaceclam! Spaceclam! (er, sorry, it's what one of my friend's dorm-mates used to call them, while chasing other people about and making it bite them)

Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War and Gone, Baby, Gone. Anybody have any recs while I'm in the proximity of, like, twenty actual bookstores?
Ohmychristbooks. *ahem* Lucky.

-That book, "True Blue" by Randy Sutton that I recc'd to you, that's one. That's got some good stories in it.
-Any book by Adam Rapp (he's a YA fiction author).
-"Another Place at the Table" by Kathy Harrison is a memoir/case study/nonfic of a foster family in rural Massachusetts.
-"The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping" is a weird, poetic memoir of a man adopting a boy with AIDS in the southwest.
-The Complete Idiot's Guide to Criminal Investigation
-if you spot at a used bookstore any of the "Howdunit" Series (reference books for crime/mystery authors), grab it
-"Last One Over the Wall" by Jerome G. Miller is about the history and closing of the Massachusetts state reform schools.

Of course I have no clue if any of these will *appeal* to you...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Spaceclam! Spaceclam! (er, sorry, it's what one of my friend's dorm-mates used to call them, while chasing other people about and making it bite them)

*raises eyebrowsw* I have just discovered the wonders of a laptop. Namely, that you can watch TV and write at the same time.

Ah, and thanks for the recs. Will explore the possibilities.

[taylor-serenil.livejournal.com]

You like Lehane, too? Hated "Mystic River" (too slow paced for me) but his pair of private investigators I'm fond of.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Lehane is one of my favorite writers, ever. Mystic River, I think, is hovering around number one on my Best Books EVER list, because I love the language he uses, and the characters. I'm on a full read-through of the Kenzie-Gennaro books, which are awesome, as usual. Shutter Island, his other book, is...well, it's weird, and it has its points, but I thought the ending was a cop-out.

Welcome, by the way. How'd you find my journal?

[taylor-serenil.livejournal.com]

Through _messerandflack. I haven't read all the Kenzie-Gennaro by a long shot, and have not read Shutter Island either.