Books books and more books

Today (and Tomorrow) are the schools annual Good Cause Cafe. A kind of book pot luck where you can go in drink free coffee and pick up books from 25 cents to $1.00.

I pretty much ran out of my south campus class onto the bus which was of course late to try and be one of the first people in there. It's funny when I finally arrived it was pretty empty, it makes me kinda sad to know that pretty much a book fair that's near free for all I'm concerned doesn't excite college students. It really does break my heart to know that kids today don't read for pleasure. Also that the book covers have to flashier to even grab a modern young adults attention.

I ran straight to the children's/ young adult section, somehow its my favorite reading level. They are quick to read and are usually imaginative. My interests span to adult fiction as well but I am very picky about how things are written. If I can't decide I'll read a few pages to see how I feel about the writing style. I guess everyone is that way or we would read everything. Obviously the plot has to strike me as interesting.

So in the end I got about 10 books for $3.50. It was such a steal!!! *maniacal laughter* I purchased "I am the cheese" for a dollar because I have heard so much about it, on a flip through it looked slightly amazing. I also got a short children's series (4 books) named "Pyrates". I got a NEW Unfortunate Event's book (one of the reprints with more text and images) for .25 cents. Also a Peter Pan movie book just because it's a great little movie. Rounding it out with an Animorphs books I was missing and 'A wrinkle in time' because I never read it.

*Sigh* that made me happy. And then... I went to this class.

*insert dramatic pause so reader may draw own conclusions from implications*

Yeah so I've finally gotten myself back into the 4th "Artemis Fowl" book "The Opal Deception". Like my previous rant I still have a hard time dealing with extra characters like "Holly" and "Opal" but I'll survive because Artemis (Arty! is so well written). Cheers ^_^ I'm also finishing the first forgive my spelling "Bartimaeous Trilogy" book. Somewhere in my fervor I lost interest. I suppose it happens.

It's harder when your in school to squeeze in books for pleasure, thus why I enjoy short reads that can take me to another place and only take an hour or less out of my days. But with children's books getting so thick Ala the severely over hyped "Harry Potter" series they take as long as any other book to digest. Ah well.

God save the printed word!

or something...