American Girls

So, I was still at B. Dalton here...but much less reading happened in the next year. *much less*
I was a newly appointed Store Manager. I was busy busy busy busy. It would have been easier if I didn't close a store down, but closing a store was so new to me that I didn't want to screw up. It would have been a lot easier if I were a SM under normal circumstances...
As far as this book goes...It was good. Short Story books are interesting because some are REALLY good, some are crap and some are very insightful and worth the read even if the story wasn't that good. This book had a little of everything.

Briar Rose

This is one of Sherri's book. It was also her last recommendation. B. Daltons last recommendation to me. The end of an era of reading.
One of the things that make me sad at BN is that no one is PSYCHED about reading. No one talks about books anymore. At B. Dalton, thats what we based our conversations on. Books and Pop Culture. I really miss Andrews and JP's hourly long discussions on the previous nights episode of The Shield. Sometimes their conversations lasted longer than the actual show.
Or that time the power went out because someone actually electricuted themselves somewhere in the mall. We hung out in the semi darkness of the store and read from Entertainment Weekly.
Or when customers would actually come in looking for you based on last weeks book recommendation.
*sniff* I miss talking about books.

Songbird

Don't ask me what inspired me to pick this book. I used to randomly pick books off of displays.
This one was...overwhelming. Sad. Nazi's, prostitution, etc. There are some images I remember well from this book. But I wouldn't recommend it or read it again.

I Never Had it Made

*swoon* Baseball, african american history, AND 1947??????????? This book was written for me. Thanks Jackie Robinson, for thinking of me when you wrote it.
In all seriousness, this is a really great book. Did you know that Jackie Robinson played football, basketball and was on track on top of baseball. Track was his most favourite! :) He excelled at everything he did. *unlike Michael Jordan, but I still love ya!*
I LOVE JACKIE ROBINSON. I love that he wasn't graceful about his being the first black man to play in the major leagues. He was angry and you bet it pissed him off everytime someone said something negative about him or to him, but he was strong enough of person to fight it and he fought it with everything he had. He takes endurance to a whole other level. Jackie Robinson, I adore you.
And I also really love the Dodgers, Brooklyn & Los Angeles. I bleed Dodger Blue. True Brue, you know it.

Truckers

Terry Pratchett and books for kids should equal awesome right? Not so much. I was sad and dissapointed. And I dont think it was because I was on my way back to Virginia from Los Angeles.

Samurai Girl: A Book of the Sword

For months and months I looked at this series in our teen section and I was so intrigued. When I finally got around to reading this one I found that I really really really really LOVED it! I was psyched. I was all about this book. But that's when the store had dropped its Model and it was really hard to keep in the section. *sniff*

Angus, Thongs, & Full Frontal Snogging

British teen books are amazing.

A Single Shard

A Single Shard is a young readers book and I was really disapointed by it. Sure, it was good and well written. I remember that when it came out, it received a lot of press. I didn't think it was *that* good. :(

Love Is Murder

When I worked at B. Dalton, I had a massive book collection. Teen books, crap books, kid books and I couldn't bear to throw any away without reading them first. So on my 2nd trip back home to Los Angeles, I grabbed a handfulof books and read 4 books in 5 days. They were all easy thoughtless books, but a lot of them I read for work. I cannot stress enough how important it was for me to be able to know first hand what I would recommend in the kids section.
This book is a mystery though. And I liked it enough to recommend it to other people at work (Sandra and Shelly). Sandra went on to read the sequels. :)