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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.
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.