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Soooooooooooo...Book Expo is next week. Since I work for people who sell books, this means we have to get the showroom looking all nice and spiffy since we'll be having dozens of people come through in the next week.
That means we get hundreds of books delivered to us over the course of this week. So many books we don't have space to put them all or, when there is space, time to put them up correctly.
So yesterday I was running around the showroom barefoot because flip flops are not conducive to running around with pounds of books in your arms.
However, it does turn out that bare feet + stacks of very heavy books on the floor is conducive to stubbing your toes so hard you break one of them.
Okay, I'm not a doctor, nor can I afford to go to one (plus, what the fuck can they do for a baby toe), but I'm pretty damn sure I managed to break my little toe by walking into a stack of books. Not dropping a stack on my foot (that would make sense), but simply walking into a stack.
Yesterday my two little toes were red and hurt like hell. Today it's just the baby toe, swollen to (at least) twice its usual size and a very angry purple/red, with an ugly ring of purple bruising forming around the base. I also can't move it for the life of me. Walking is a bitch. Doing much of anything aside from sitting around and complaining is difficult.
That means we get hundreds of books delivered to us over the course of this week. So many books we don't have space to put them all or, when there is space, time to put them up correctly.
So yesterday I was running around the showroom barefoot because flip flops are not conducive to running around with pounds of books in your arms.
However, it does turn out that bare feet + stacks of very heavy books on the floor is conducive to stubbing your toes so hard you break one of them.
Okay, I'm not a doctor, nor can I afford to go to one (plus, what the fuck can they do for a baby toe), but I'm pretty damn sure I managed to break my little toe by walking into a stack of books. Not dropping a stack on my foot (that would make sense), but simply walking into a stack.
Yesterday my two little toes were red and hurt like hell. Today it's just the baby toe, swollen to (at least) twice its usual size and a very angry purple/red, with an ugly ring of purple bruising forming around the base. I also can't move it for the life of me. Walking is a bitch. Doing much of anything aside from sitting around and complaining is difficult.
It's actually looking and feeling much better today. It's still swollen but the bruise has faded, and it only hurts if I try to move the toe or walk. So I'm camping out in front of the computer today (wait, how is that different from any other Saturday?!)
Also, I'm going to go through your LJ and look at YA books to read during my Saturday night shifts, because they're usually available in the public library. Tonight I'm going to read Laurie Halse Anderson's "Chains" and Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games"! Anything else I should pick up immediately? (I already devoured "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.") - Rachel
And I've been wearing my flip flops for the past few days. I probably should be in full shoes like sneakers, but it's too hot to wear socks and shoes :-P However I'm going to wear them to work tomorrow, dress code be damned, because all of my work shoes are either heels or pointy-toed flats and I don't want to try to squeeze my toe into those right now.
'Graceling' has action and adventure along the lines of Hunger Games, though more fantasy oriented. 'I Am Apache' by Tanya Landman is a good book about an Apache woman warrior when the US was expanding west (though she does get a little Mary-Sue-ish with how awesome she is...but she IS pretty damn awesome). What else...oh, I need someone else to read 'The Forest of Hands and Teeth' so I can figure out if the book disappointed me just because I was expecting something else or if it actually has problems (it's a post-apocalyptic zombie romance - with far more emphasis on the romance than I was expecting, hence my disappointment, since romance and I tend to not get along, especially when it's zomg!angsty).
And have you read Scott Westerfeld's 'Uglies' series yet? Because those are all awesome as well, though they've been out for awhile so I don't know if you caught them earlier.
I believe the reason why dress code would require you to wear closed-toe shoes -- at least, why MY bookstores argued against my flipflops -- is so that, if books fall on your feet, you won't get injured. *irony!*
I have not read any of the books on that list, though I've been meaning to pick up Scott Westerfield's series for years now. That'll go to the top. I've also heard incredible things about Kathleen Duey's first book in the Resurrection of Magic trilogy, have you read it?
Also, one of my high school librarians has the ARC already and bragged about it on Facebook.
Our dress code actually doesn't require closed toe shoes - they can be flat, open toed with a closed heel or be open toed with a 1" or higher heel and be sandal-like. They clearly have no worries about my safety :-P
Mm, any time "magic" shows up in the title of a book, I generally avoid it. I really can't stand most fantasy books - Graceling gets a pass because, while it's fantasy, there really isn't any magic, they just have some cool powers and its a faux-medieval setting.