Given up.

Given up.

03.23.04 (12:50 pm)   [edit]
The gift romance paperbacks have finally broken me. :roll:

Someone donated about 500 romance novels about a month ago and I can't stand looking at reviews of them anymore! :roll:

Besides that, I don't have room to add any more of them; especially not Regency romances which seem to make up the bulk of the gift pile here. There are only so many that we can fit into our rapidly growing collection.

So, I'm boxing them up and sending them on to become someone else's problem at our main branch. I don't care if they add them, sell them or trash them. I just don't want to see them again. :roll:

I've never read a romance novel; never had the slightest urge to read one. Don't want to read the male equivalents: westerns & action/spy/military man-romances either.

Unfortunately, the patrons at this branch love romances, particularly historical ones. They love romances and cozy mysteries, which shouldn't come as any surprise because I'm guessing the median age of our patrons to be something like 50 years old.

Sci-fi doesn't go here and especially not Star Trek/Star Wars novels which circulated a lot at my past location - surprising because of the largely Hispanic immigrant patron base there. :shock:

It almost makes me miss my old spot, when I could order all kinds of Sci-fi titles and have the circulation stats to justify it. :)

Just last week, I stopped over there at the old place and grabbed three paperbacks off the rack that I ordered for there (and for me, when I got down to them on my reading list). I'm almost through with the first one (see my current fiction link for more details) and then it's on to Dreampark by Larry Niven and Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. After that, I've got I think 2 more waiting for me on the hold shelf - better get crackin'! :o

Two quick last notes:

I saw [b]Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [/b] on Saturday and I have to say that it was one of the best movies I've seen in a long while. I highly recommend it and though I'm definitely not one of Jim Carrey's biggest fans, I think he did a great job in this movie.

I'm going to see [b]Dawn of the Dead[/b] tomorrow night after work. My brother, who's a Zombie film connoisseur like myself, saw it on Friday and said he thought it was as good as 28 days later, or possibly even better. He did admit though that because this version is set in our hometown area, it really enhanced the horror and fright level for him. His actual words were that, "they did a great job of capturing the "brownness" (bleakness) of our region's landscape during parts of the year," so it made it all the more believable for him and hopefully for me as well. :D

Maybe more later . . .