The Library

[cathschaffstump]

So, there I was in the Iowa City library, waiting to have dinner with my friend who had flown in from Tokyo to chat with his professors about his thesis. It was going to be the first time I had seen Tetsuya in five years, and I was excited about it. However, because of one of his meetings, we wouldn’t be getting together until 6:30 pm.

A quick trip into the House of Aromas and one bubble tea later, it was 4:30. Bryon and I went into the library to kill some time, because it needed killing. I’d already checked stray essays while drinking bubble tea, and I planned to scoop (more) snow later, so I wanted to do something that wasn’t too taxing for a while.

Bryon found a Peter David Battlestar Galactica novel that he had some definite opinions about. I started cruising the library. One of the things I do now is I look at the shelves for the books of people I know.

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[erised1810.livejournal.com]

thank. you. this...is what mght make me pay more attention to newer books and give them more of a broader chance than just goign b ythe title and thinking 'meh, not for me.'
for instance, i shoved erago noff m ytoread pile because the blurb made me think of narnia and pern novels when i haven't evne read any of those. and everyoen says it's likea jumble of all the classic fantasy series together. but that can't mean i'm automatically not gonna lke it. it could ba a real case of 'this is too much like the battle of helm's deep' or it could be more like 'hey, he has the same humor as terry pratchett'.
it's jsut sucha thin line. i wishsome publishers woudl stop filligntheir blurb with comparisosn to famosu writers. i don't wantto knwo that your stuff is reminescent of phillip pullman. it's gonna make me loo kfor simlarities. or throw the book away because it could be a case of very bad deja vu once i read it. ora puslisher who reads the word demons and thinks of the daemons in northern liths and stops thinking there.