Emails

I figured out the culprit for my missing emails problem: LAURA!

Just kidding. But it turns out that blogger only lets you send email alerts to one email address, so I formed a mailing list for us on google groups. Hopefully it will work. This post is partly to test that.

I just returned from the library and picked up: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Corelli's Mandolin, The Corrections, Disgrace, The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, and The Old Man and the Sea. I might end up volunteering at the library's bookshop--they need help and I can't resist a place that has a little moneybox and a bookcart outside the door with the message, "If the bookstore is closed, place money here."

I was reading The Prisoner of Azkaban again today and the whole books-to-movie issue kept popping up, because I had the images and sounds from the movie stuck in my head and they would flash up in my mind when I was reading. It was a little distracting, actually. I mean, I love the movie, but I liked being able to use my own imagination to visualize the characters. And now that seems impossible.

Curses on Hollywood? Or does someone want to give the counterargument?

P.S. I haven't read LOTR either, Laura. Except for the appendix about Eowyn and Faramir, because I'm a sap and it wasn't in the movie.

P.P.S. Blogging about books at a bookstore is very appropriate, I think. I'm sure your bosses would agree that it's better than reading the tabloids. Not that I do that...much.