There is good news and there is bad news...I always like to get the bad news first..and that is..my truck is broke..and Vincent is supposed to be fixing it(we think it's the starter)..but haven't heard from him and the truck is still sitting in the parking lot of Ace Auto Parts, where she so politely decided to quit..Babs and I are making bets on how long it will take him to at least call..So far she is seems to know him better than me..I keep thinking he will pull up in the truck and say 'tada'...she seems to think he is on a bender...sigh*...fuckity fuck fuck.....fuck!
The only good part of that is that Jenny needs me to go with her to her new duplex and hang up her mail box,fix her door bell, remove some decals off the door and put up some new numbers...and since the truck is 'awol' she will have to come and get me and bring me home..Oh and I also have to go with her to her mom's house and fix her couch..It has a rip and some tears along the seam and as I am Jackie of all trades I am the one who gets to fix her stuff...
Now for the really really good news...Babs and I went to the library today and Nancy informed me that a bunch of new books came in and I went ape shit...I was making 'ooh, oooh ohh' noises..purring and stoking the books like some pervert...I actually said :'I love the smell of new books' and sniffed the pages ...In taking them off the 'new books' shelf I ran across the book by the Cunt, with the title if Democrats had any brains they'd be republicans...I think I forgot where I was as I said 'I'm going to slap that bitch'...and when everyone started to laugh, I said.."Did I say that out loud?"...Still laughing everyone assured me that yes, I said it out loud, but it was ok..nothing I said surprised them much anymore..
Nancy's going 'this is a public library Jackie'...but she was laughing too..I got 11 fucking books...11......10 of them spanking new...and I'm so excited that I'm giddy..I got home and usually there will be one that stands out and will go right to it..but this time I couldn't figure out which one to start in on first...I even called Nancy and told her I was having a nervous breakdown, that I didn't know which book to read first..so she looked at my list and said I should start on The Cat Dancers first as it wasn't a new one and was one that I had asked for because it was in a series and I had read all the rest..so I am..and it's good..Here is a list of the books...and some of them are on 3 or 4 lists of best book for the year..
The Cat Dancers by P.T. Deuermann,Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson, Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler,
Genghis-Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden,Double Take by Catherine Coulter,Finn by Jon Clinch(it's about Huckleberry Finn's Daddy),The Name of The Wind by Patric Rothfuss(really supposed to be a terrific book),The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle,The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz,Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells, and Jamestown by Mathew Sharpe.
Ahhh, life is good...now if only my truck was fixed..
If you don't hear from me for the next 3-4 days..it's because my nose is going to be pressed into the thighs of my sweet smelling new books...I will be dancing with the cats, checking out victims,working with the FBI,learning some history about Temujin, the son of a khan and just generally having a wonderful time..
I love books...and I really do love the smell of new books..don't know if it's the ink or the pulp or just the thought of all that excitement going on between the pages...
I'll be glad to give a review of each book in case anyone wants to check them out...
Fuckme till I smell like a new book....
