Michael McDowell ' s The Elementals. I got it at a secondhand shop last summer, and finally got to it in my pile yesterday. What a fun book! I read almost all of it yesterday, just a little bit left
Unfortunately, because it's the original PB printing, the pages are pretty loose--some are even starting to come out. Anyone had any luck repairing these old books? I know I'm going to want to read it again.
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My father was great at that and then he used to pick out some pockets and send them to a bookbinder friend of his that made hardbacks of them cheap. It was his hobby to bind books.
If you can get (or have already) some acid-free liquid adhesive you can use a toothpick or even a cotton swab to make a fine line of glue down the inside edge of the pages that have come undone, then close the book and put something heavy on it to add weight so that the pages won't move about while they're drying. I have a bottle of the glue that I purchased from Brodart that I use in these instances.Michael McDowell ' s The Elementals. I got it at a secondhand shop last summer, and finally got to it in my pile yesterday. What a fun book! I read almost all of it yesterday, just a little bit left
Unfortunately, because it's the original PB printing, the pages are pretty loose--some are even starting to come out. Anyone had any luck repairing these old books? I know I'm going to want to read it again.
There's a competitions here:
and I was there one week ago and I was talking to this guy and I said I've never heard of the Sol Invictus Nemesis motorcycle( which is on display in the pub and someone can win). I realise I don't know enough about motorcycles so I'm reading an 'Idiots guide to motorcycles book'
and I was there one week ago and I was talking to this guy and I said I've never heard of the Sol Invictus Nemesis motorcycle( which is on display in the pub and someone can win). I realise I don't know enough about motorcycles so I'm reading an 'Idiots guide to motorcycles book'
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Mr.Cranky, I edited out the link as it was going to ticket sales to the musician. Not sure we are allowed to post those. Please feel free to try again when Marsha is on duty.
That's alright. I shouldn't have posted that, I was just trying to show the competition with a picture of the motorbike that can be won.
Finished Our Man In Camelot by Anthony Price. Starting Gunner Kelly by the same man. He writes spy stories. IMO much better than Le Carre. More interesting, better written, better plots. Sadly he seems to have stopped writing when the wall fell.
Yay, you've joined the cult of McDowell! Isn't he just so creepy and fun to read? You have to read The Blackwater books!!! Or have you? I can't remember.On to McDowell ' s COLD MOON OVER BABYLON. Another fine weird GothicAs soon as I finish this one (tomorrow-lol), I have THE AMULET to read. Then I have to start trolling Thriftbooks for more McDowell
I'm reading Louise Erdrich's A Plague of Doves. Next to Margaret Atwood I think she is one of the finest North American authors writing today. This book is the first in a loose trilogy. I read the third one, LaRose, last year. At the time I did not realize there were two others that came before. She writes with such passion and understanding about Native Americans and their history and how it affects the contemporary families living within the system today. And like Atwood, her prose is lyrical & magical.
There wasn't any damn pictures! What was I supposed to do???
I have, twice! I wish I'd discovered him years ago
I can't imagine why these books haven't been filmed--they're perfect summer popcorn stories.Finished Gunner Kelly. Now i'm gonna start Heart Shaped Box. I havent read that one before, I have, i think, read the rest of Hills output and liked it but i have missed this one somehow. Looking forward to it!
I thought it was genuinely scary. Looking forward to your review.
The morbid mailman delivered me a fresh, brand spanking new printing of King and Wrightson's Creepshow comic--the third copy of this I've owned now.
King should write more comics. He's always had a knack for it. Berni's art as great as ever.
My only complaint is what seems to be a cheaper printing process used for this edition. I dunno, but it looks like scans of the printed comic pages, not shot from the actual artwork. Trust me, I've seen a lot of this sort of thing. I knows it when I sees it.
I mean, the art is still top notch. The reproduction of said art, however, is about a one off. But heck, it's freaking King and Wrightson, it's freaking Creepshow, it's killer. Wish they woulda done a buncha these.
RIP, Berni!
King should write more comics. He's always had a knack for it. Berni's art as great as ever.
My only complaint is what seems to be a cheaper printing process used for this edition. I dunno, but it looks like scans of the printed comic pages, not shot from the actual artwork. Trust me, I've seen a lot of this sort of thing. I knows it when I sees it.
I mean, the art is still top notch. The reproduction of said art, however, is about a one off. But heck, it's freaking King and Wrightson, it's freaking Creepshow, it's killer. Wish they woulda done a buncha these.
RIP, Berni!
Stories from Skeleton Crew and audiobook Target Manhattan by Brian Garfield
Curently reading a Rick Mofina that was free on Amazon. It's okay, not great, but I have so much going on right now, I need a story that's not complex, so it'll do.
Oh my gosh. I am reading a vampire book from 2001 called Night Blood by James M. Thompson....WOW. It is wonderful!
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