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Mar. 18th, 2009 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionayWent to the Paranormal Bender, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tbclone47 has pictures.
We got there early (to compensate for traffic that didn't exist. Coming home was hell, though.) so we lost ourselves in the sf section of the University Bookstore, letting Duane tell us stories like The Missing Chapter in a Robin Hobb Book That We Had to Photocopy and Hand Out To People.
I spent almost $100 on books, and since I'm saving $1000 bucks by not going to Worldcon, I can do this. Mainly, I got people I know, online or otherwise. Of the speakers, I only got Mark Teppo's Lightbreaker and Cherie Priest's Fathom, since I've already got stuff by the others (and I just really wanted Fathom).
With 40 minutes to spare, we settled into the seating area, which had a table so San could finish his fan drawings. It's in the poetry section, so I was able to continue my search for a good poetry instruction book that includes traditional forms other than just the sonnet. They had a huge volume of Russian poems translated by Nabokov. I drooled, but it was 40$ and would have broken my arm carrying it around. However, I read the opening, which included a poem by Nabokov about translating poems. It included lines like (paraphrased) desecrating graves and dove droppings on your monument. I <3 Nabokov.
Then, to my joy, I found it. A book about poetry, emphasis on the traditional, by Stephen Fry.
<3 <3 <3
tbclone47 has pictures. We got there early (to compensate for traffic that didn't exist. Coming home was hell, though.) so we lost ourselves in the sf section of the University Bookstore, letting Duane tell us stories like The Missing Chapter in a Robin Hobb Book That We Had to Photocopy and Hand Out To People.
I spent almost $100 on books, and since I'm saving $1000 bucks by not going to Worldcon, I can do this. Mainly, I got people I know, online or otherwise. Of the speakers, I only got Mark Teppo's Lightbreaker and Cherie Priest's Fathom, since I've already got stuff by the others (and I just really wanted Fathom).
With 40 minutes to spare, we settled into the seating area, which had a table so San could finish his fan drawings. It's in the poetry section, so I was able to continue my search for a good poetry instruction book that includes traditional forms other than just the sonnet. They had a huge volume of Russian poems translated by Nabokov. I drooled, but it was 40$ and would have broken my arm carrying it around. However, I read the opening, which included a poem by Nabokov about translating poems. It included lines like (paraphrased) desecrating graves and dove droppings on your monument. I <3 Nabokov.
Then, to my joy, I found it. A book about poetry, emphasis on the traditional, by Stephen Fry.
<3 <3 <3
