Stuff

fuyu_no_fuhei is visiting for life in general and my birthday and Readercon in particular (the birthday being this coming Monday, Readercon July 7-9). It's nice having her here, but the day was gloomy and rainy and we didn't get much sleep, so I sort of want to crawl under the covers now. Plus headache building. No idea why.

In other news, we stopped at nifty used bookstore on our way home from dinner. My book haul has been truly astounding in these last few weeks, and will be more due to some funky payment thing which results in my getting $135 worth of stuff from the Coop for free, so to the point that even I'm questioning how much more I can obtain (and really, this is before Readercon and the Book Dealers of Empty Wallets), but I managed to pick up a couple more. The first is a research book - a concise library of Russian folklore which should serve as an excellent jumping off point for what I want to do after I finish the trilogy (please note the word "after" - I am not abandoning this project, the characters won't shut up long enough to think of letting me abandon them). I just think that there's not exploration of Russian folklore and mythology in Western writing - including genre.

The other thing I picked up is Spells of Enchantment edited by Jack Zipes and including stories by Andersen, Baum, Angela Carter, Philip K. Dick, Lord Dunsany, Goethe, Grimm, Hawthorne, Hesse, Tanith Lee, Robin McKinley, Rousseau, Thackeray, Twain, Voltaire, Wilde, Yeats, and Yolen (and many more).

Good stuff!