I am very, very sad about the closing of the Borders in my local area. I loved being able to just wander down the street from the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company (or occasionally from Rosies, my favorite bar) and explore she shelves looking for something good to take home.
However, I also rather like sales, and the one benefit of the stores closing is that I’ve been able to stock up on a whole heap of books that I might have not been able to afford otherwise. Therefore I present to you the bookstack of awesome. I visited three Borders stores (all of which are cloasing) to be able to create this stack.
From top to bottom:
1. At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft
2. Peeps, by Scott Westerfeld
3. The Last Days, by Scott Westerfeld (sequel to Peeps)
4. The Mermaid’s Madness, by Jim C. Hines
5. Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, whatever the latest edition is
6. Nightwatch, by Sergei Lukanenko (I love the movie and didn’t even know there was a book until I saw it in the store.)
7. Fated, by S.G. Browne
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
9. Zombies v.s. Unicorns, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
10. The Search for Wondla, by Tony DiTerilizzi
11. Cold Magic, by Kate Elliot
12. Demon Hunts (book 5 of the Walker Papers), by C.E. Murphy
13. God’s War, by Kameron Hurley (Love the cover of this one.)
14. Sandman: Brief Lives, by Stephen King (my favorite storyline of the Sandman series of graphic novels)
15. Preacher: Until the End of the World, by Garth Enis (writer) and Steve Dillon (artist)
16. Monster Island, by David Wellington
17. Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld