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Verb Noire in Publisher's Weekly and other good things, including links to more good writers, and interesting comments. Watch these spaces, folks. There's real stuff happening here.
I won't bother to link to updates on Amazon, because it seems to change hourly: just say that they're restoring rankings for now, and there's buzz all over the Seller Discussion blogs, which seems to me very hopeful. Amazon's not just Amazon. It's a lot of little people like me, too, and some of us are here, queer (or queer-friendly) and we're not being quiet.
It's not the not-buying from Amazon that's going to change them. It's the writing to them and telling them why you're unhappy with them. It's the getting to know your local bookshops (if you're a ways out of town, your locals quite likely are online, and ship to you. See this post from ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jadelennox for more info and a good POV.
I took my books to my local bookshop- they bought what they wanted- and I might very well move to Alibris.com when I get back from Europe, but for now I've got GLBT, ethnic studies, women's studies, men's studies, history, feminism, poetry, politics, fiction, health, nursing, death&dying, pregnancy and birth, children's and young adult, home-schooling, psychology, philosophy, plays, and religion/spirituality. I'm a small local bookstall too, renting space in a big market named Amazon, selling my personal library so I can go to Europe and see my friends.
How cool is my housemate? They've just come back from 10 days helping her brother with a school field trip in Europe, and she brought me back her left-over Euro. I've got about 6 Euro now- that'll buy a bit of petrol. Not much, but a bit. *happy dance*
There's more, but I'm supposed to be sleeping, or at least keeping my head down except for staying hydrated and getting out from under this little lurking sinus infection. So I'm gonna slip in another disc of The West Wing (they run about 4 hours, and now that I'm getting to know them by heart, they're good soothing voices in the background that help me sleep) and lie down a bit longer.
Blessings on your heads, y'all. Keep on keeping on.
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Apparel and shoes on sale at Amazon until April 3rd. (yeah, I get referral points if you buy after going in through my portal. geez, don't I sound like a pro, or a shill, or something? lol)
Sample listings:
( A Tolkien Treasury )
Amy's Eyes
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BRITISH COLUMBIA: A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY [Hardcover] Edited by Reginald E. Watters
The five sections of this Centennial Anthology attempt to portray in words and B&W pictures the varied life of British Columbia in both the past and present.
30 Days to a Simpler Life; A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies; Boycott; Capitol Hill in Black and White; Canciones Infantiles [Audio CD] El patio de mi casa; Child in the Night [VHS Tape] JoBeth Williams; Tom Skerritt; Tim Choate, Elijah Wood IMDb; Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice [Hardcover] Gary M. Tabor; Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice [Paperback] by Walker, Marsha; Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, Appraisal, and Utilization; Eve's Bayou [DVD] Jurnee Smollett; Meagan Good; Samuel L. Jackson; Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols by Bynum, Caroline W.; Guide to Rembering Japanese Characters (Tuttle language library); Howard Street by Nathan C. Heard; Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit; Spiritual Gardening [Audiobook] by Handelsman, Judith (cassettes) among other books, movies, and music.
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Mystery, Intrigue, and Espionage:( Read more... )Historical Fiction and Novels:( Read more... )Biography and Autobiography( Read more... )Womens' and Gender Studies; Psychology: ( Read more... )Spirituality; Meditation; Religion, Questioning, Searching( Read more... )Children's books, movies, and CDs( Read more... )
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Oops, missed yesterday.
Otoh sleep is good.
So, the upside of no laptop at work is- am getting uni reading done.
Downside of no laptop at home is- no internets in bed. woe. lol.
Tonight off so that I can go to San Francisco tomorrow and meet up with Mom and Sister who are staying at son's. They took the train into town- how fun is that? I'll take the bus down, get a ride back up on Tues.
Then back to it on Tuesday- Chicano/Latino Cinema Tues, Native American Studies and work on Wed.
Am really enjoying the texts for these classes, which is such a lovely change. A well written text is a joy.
Write to your congresspeople about the HHS proposed changes. Even if what we need (and we might, we might, I dunno) is something that allows practitioners to opt out of prescribing birth control, redefining birth control as abortion is not the way to go about it.
With that, back to bed. Sleeping in my own bed, in the dark and quiet night: priceless.
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Slept well again last night. Not that I couldn't use ANOTHER 12 hours, but that's not going to happen today. Class, study, work. Still, sleep is good, and getting caught up on uni reading is good.
Now on to the not-so-personal things.
There are a number of things going on in US politics and in US public policy that, frankly, make me frightened, furious, and ready to take action. I keep meaning to post about them, and then finding myself so tired that I am afraid I cannot do them justice. Let me try now.
First is the draft paper before Health and Human Services that will redefine any kind of birth control as abortion. This takes my mind from one place to another, living as I have from the time of the thalidomide scandal through the introduction of The Pill, Planned Parenthood, and legal abortion and Women's Studies as a legitimate field of scholarship.( somewhat rambling pursuit of truth follows )
For a more forceful, more focused, and (probably) more useful presentation of the issues surrounding the HHS paper and what (if you are so moved) you can do about it, tammy212 has put together three well-written posts about it.
And now we have Sarah Palin as vice-presidential nominee. Which is several kettles of fish, most of which smell already. And I need to go to class. So confused sorting out of that will need to be a post for another day.
This post brought to you by the letters X and Y and the gratitude for a forum for my thoughts and the education to at least partially think this through and be able to do research and present it for discussion.
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