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those people plus i wanted to hear more of the conversation i should have offered to help because the conversation started to depress me this trio of well fed obviously well cared for girls are wandering around talking about how they don t read and don t go to bookstores and are being forced to read huckleberry finn and it s like omigod sooo hard these girls are old enough to drive themselves to the mall just fyi they are actually proud of the fact that they don t read so they finally come find me arranging the new bestsellers none of which are the scarlet letter and ask for the nicholas sparks books and i show them to the section about 8 feet behind them alphabetical by author s last name then one of the girls does ask for the scarlet letter so i ask my favorite question ever do you need a particular edition which completely confuses the poor girl and her face literally goes blank so we go to hawthorne and i pull the cheapest edition off the shelf she still looks confused so i take a little pity on her and ask if she knows anything about the book nope she doesn t know anything about it but she s supposed to read it nope she has no idea that it s over 150 years old or about puritans and she has trouble reading huck finn and i m thinking oh crap so i ask her as gently as i can if she would like me to recommend something else for her to read i m assuming it s for school but i could be wrong no no this is fine so the trio wanders back off to nicholas sparks pretty soon they come find me again do i have any cliffs notes for nicholas sparks s the rescue i actually felt my teeth click together so my mouth wouldn t fall open er no we don t have any sparknotes for nicholas sparks books but yes we do have sparknotes for huck finn i take two of the three over to the study aids section surprisingly the girl with the scarlet letter is not interested in a sparknotes for her book she s determined to read it i could have hugged her for saying that so she hung around the teen new releases to find huck finn and the whole way there the one girl keeps going on and on loudly about how long the book is and how hard it is to read and how it has like 500 pages and that s soooo unfair and she s not going to read it if she doesn t have to i wanted to slap her so i pulled the sparknotes for huck finn off the rack handed it to her and said just so you know all the teachers have read all the study aids and cheat sheets for the books you read in class so you ll still need to read the book huck finn is still relevant because huck has to re think his attitudes about slavery and people of color as he and jim become friends and by the way huck finn is often marketed as a children s book it s only about 200 to 250 pages depending on the edition war and peace has 1000 pages that s a long book that shut her up why are people so proud of being ignorant and stupid it s like a badge of honor trumpeting their stupidity look at that waste case snooki in the case of the three girls because i have no idea what my phone customer looks like it s obvious that they have money that their parents spare no expense for them so why parade around like some uneducated hick why not take pride in the advantages of an education i ve read susan jacoby s the age of american unreason so i understand that the divide between the intelligence haves and have nots has always existed but it always makes me go huh i try to be helpful and optimistic but the really dogged way that some people just cling to their ignorance makes me want to crawl back in my hidey hole or point and laugh depending on situation posted by melissa ward at 12 40 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels customers omg and wtf rant reasons i am smarter than most of humanity 21 january 2011 it s bloggiesta weekend a tiny tiny goal for me natasha is hosting bloggiesta again this year happy 4th bloggiesta if you re wondering it s like a working weekend where bloggers do housekeeping on their sites a little pruing maybe a few mini challenges and help each other out i did some bloggiesta ing last year added my header picture and changed up the template to something a little more custom designed but i won t be really joining in since i m still unpacking boxes although i could work on the reading chemistry blog hmmmm maybe but anywhoo the reason for this post has to do with programming i really don t understand how blog templates set out widgets colors columns etc and i have no idea how to read the code i know a little bit about html but this seems to be css so this is my tiny tiny bloggiesta goal ready bloggiesta 2011 goal find a book good reference so i can start to understand how blog templates websites are put together so that next time we bloggiesta i will be able to do some more customization cleanup so this is where everyone else comes in do you have good reference material that you use when you do tweaks and updates books or websites are fine so tell me your faves posted by melissa ward at 1 35 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bloggiesta random 20 january 2011 who needs love so every year at the store we go from christmas signage to valentine s day signage with a brief stop over for new year s resolution type books in a blink so for six weeks we get to live with the valentine s day table brimming with relationship sex and dating books in varying shades of pink pink er pink and red for someone who is always acutely aware that valentine s day is sad s ingles a wareness d ay it can get old fast so i got to thinking why not an anti valentine s day type of display not neccessarily against valentine s day per se but one where the love stories don t end happily or not as the reader would wish also known as no heas happily ever afters just for a little balance and would be full of good books to read why not indeed so i made one with input from a few other booksellers the display is buried in the fiction section but i plan on catching unsuspecting book browsers with the sign who needs love the time traveler s wife by audrey niffenegger the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro atonement by ian mcewan love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez the reader by bernhard schlink the english patient by michael ondaatje the thorn birds by colleen mccullough oscar and lucinda by peter carey cold mountain by charles frazier his dark materials trilogy by phillip pullman brick lane by monica ali the sorrows of young werther by johann wolfgang von goethe on love by alain de botton i deliberately went with more recent novels than classics because if i did classics anna karenina would be front and center followed by jude the obscure and wuthering heights as well as very obvious plays from shakespeare do you think i m missing anything essential looking at this list again i must have had booker awards on the brain eta one or two things on the display that slipped my mind writing this post posted by melissa ward at 12 43 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels tis the season happy dance random 19 january 2011 the complete booker challenge 2011 sweet try ing again for the booker challenge and add to my booker project i plan to start with the pix a mix of six level the sea the sea by iris murdoch the sea by john banville which i think is coming out as a movie this year so i should read it midnight s children by salman rushdie the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro life of pi by yann martel the bone people by keri hulme the new penguin ink cover is awesome if i finish those i ll bump up the goal to the booker s dozen pefect opportunity to read possession again posted by melissa ward at 4 45 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels booker project complete booker challenge 11 january 2011 2011 to set or not to set reading goals in thinking about reading and blogging for 2011 i wasn t sure i wanted to do any challenges this year i ve come to realize they distract me i think and worry and fret far more about what i need to read for a challenge than what i actually read this gets worse when i have greater than one challenge going on at the same time i finished one challenge women unbound but had trouble finishing the other the complete booker and i only made minimal progress on my projects so i think i ll just do one challenge kind of one and a half i d like to work on the complete booker challenge 2011 it would help make a decent amount of headway on my booker project i ll probably start with the pix a mix of six read six booker winners and it might upgrade to the a booker s dozen read twelve winners or nominees from the short or long lists i ll need to get a challenge post up for that one i ve also signed up for the goodreads challenge which is simply a goal to read a certain number of books goodreads makes it really easy to track that with the stats page so i signed up with the goal of reading 100 books this year i ve not made a great start what with the mess of moving and all one hundred books in a year is like my personal glass ceiling somehow i slowly started accepting review copies from publishers this last year well just harperperennial harper paperbacks really i didn t go overboard thank goodness but i haven t been very good at getting things read when i need to for publication dates so i need to work on that i also have to pay attention to what i ask for because sometimes you get what you ask for i requested a review copy of the new christopher isherwood diaries never realizing for one minute that it was going to be quite thick and in the manner of diaries not terribly readable so i must keep a better head on my shoulders i apologize to harper for that one it s going to take me a bit to get that one read i also need to work on a few more of my projects especially the nobel and best american ones because the projects are really my pets they cover a nice cross section of literature without a great deal of cross over there really isn t much from what i ve found so in summary my reading goals for 2011 1 only sign up for real challenge the complete booker 2011 2 write a sign up post for the complete booker 2011 3 be smarter about review copies 4 work on my projects bring it 2011 posted by melissa ward at 1 31 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels reading matters reflection 07 january 2011 i haz a happee a happy new house be prepared for a long post with gratuitous photographic displays so thursday december 30 i went to the bank and signed my life away but i got the keys to my new house i stopped by lowe s for painting supplies picked up some lunch changed out of my suit i apparently am the only person i know who dresses up for a house closing but i have a suspicion that the loan officer is happier loaning a large sum of money to a person who looks like a professional not a dumpster dweller and headed over to my new house with a few things including the house warming present from my bank now that the house was mine i could think about what i wanted to do with the rooms in the new house the master bedroom needed a coat of paint not too far from the starting shade of blue but the original job was really shoddy did they thin the paint before using it the smaller bedroom my office needed several coats of paint to cover up that ghastly shade of pepto bismol pink and some work to cover really bad drywall patches this is not as pink as it should be but i was having trouble getting the correct exposure because the lighting in that room is really dank also on the list of things to change mom and dad came down to help dad to help paint and mom to get started on the kitchen see below for what was up with the kitchen we weren t done with painting that evening it was just too many walls to paint even with jess and jackie coming over to help and we needed another full coat in the office to cover the pink even though we d started with a tinted primer so back to the condo for bed which was really the couch because i had to start taking the bed apart for the movers i didn t go to sleep until nearly 2am because i was also taking apart the stereo system and packing all the clothes in the drawers in my room up at 6am and i took the cats over to the new house which involved tricking two highly suspicious felines into their carriers also known as giving up on doing it nicely and dropping them butt first into the carriers packing them into the car with all their toys blankies and new litter boxes and taking a mercifully short car ride with two howling animals they were installed in the downstairs bathroom known as the cats bathroom for the day then i raced back to the condo in time for the water heater guy to install the new water heater old water heater was peeing water on the floor at the condo the movers to come for my furniture and the contractor to fix the drywall i was practically paying the buyers to take my house it was like a circus we found little kitty hoards under all the furniture after the movers left dad and i worked on more painting we didn t finish until saturday but the results were well worth it my bedroom has a much more saturated blue color along with a more even paint job so it feels very calm and peaceful the cats felt more at home once we got the bed made when i let them out of the bathroom they wouldn t go anywhere without me even crying to get me to come downstairs so they could use the kitty box chaucer would stand at the bottom and cry to have me to come down and get him my office turned out to be amazing the color is bimini blue and after a coat of tinted primer and two coats of color it looks exactly like the card i ve got a little touch up work to do still and we got a bit of paint on the woodwork but i m busily filling up my bookshelves with books so do you want to hear about the kitchen the kitchen was a disaster the oven was beyond disgusting i m sorry i didn t remember to take a picture like multiple years worth of cooking pizza directliy on the racks without a pan level of dirty we had to vacuum the ashes out of the bottom after running the cleaning cycle my mother who is quite good at getting kitchens in order spent nearly three days cleaning cabinets even borrowing the putty knife to scrape god only knows what off of cabinet bottoms she made me promise that the next time i buy a house i request on the offer to have a professional cleaning done prior to close and that goes for my brothers and sisters in law too in the end it turned out to be a very nice and clean kitchen with a low wall looking over the foyer where chaucer likes to sit and vulture the food i swear that i cleaned my condo unbelievably well prior to the sale on january 5 it took two days and you could have eaten off the floor in the bathroom where the litter boxes sat true story i 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