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11/02/2006: "This is not for you"
Song of the Day: Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Today, on my way home from school, I stopped at Gamestop to pick up my reserved copy of Final Fantasy XII. It's with much regret that I must put this on the shelf until after the weekend, since I have the MPRE on Saturday and a rough draft of my seminar paper due on Monday. This is not today's story, however.
Gamestop is about a mile away from my apartment. On warm days, this is not a very long walk. Today, however, the temperature dipped below freezing and made a mile just too far to walk without breaking it up into smaller bits. First I stopped at The Soup Box; it's been voted Chicago's best soup for the last three years, and good lord does it deserve such an award. Then there was a stop at a coffee and tea store, where I ventured into the world of loose tea leaves for the first time (when you go through five cups a night like I do, $8.99 for a pound of tea makes more sense than $4 for 20 teabags).
And then I stopped in a small bookstore that's almost too tiny to even exist. I've never figured out their deal; they don't call themselves a used bookstore, and all their books are in pristine condition, but they're sold at much lower prices than the list price, and the selection is always very random. Today, that randomness worked in my favor; I glanced at the first shelf and House of Leaves jumped into my hands and cried, "I'm only $9, please take me home!"
I know that some of you reading this understand just what a special book this is. For the rest of you, I'll have a review up on Vox in a few days. I've been wanting my own copy ever since borrowing it from the library back in 2004. It isn't the full color edition, with blue and red and braille letters, but the word "house" is still in blue, and to me, that's the most important part (aside from the $9 price tag).
Don't cry / There's always a way / Here in November in this house of leaves / We'll pray
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Please let us all know how you like FFXII! I found FFX too linear for my tastes but loved the girly X-2. Inexplicably I hadn't discovered the series at all until X-2 and then went backwards to X, which bored me and which I never finished.Pootie, Friday, November 3rd