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Sue - 2004-09-04 20:08:38
Paula, re: your bachelorette pad, you should check out this book. The authors were interviewed for a story in the morning paper; here it is. I hope these links actually work!
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Paula - 2004-09-05 09:14:01
Jennifer, for instance, has a living room devoted to stuff from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

Ah, a gal after my own heart!
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Janet - 2004-09-05 14:27:22
A small library miracle
Absolutely not to belittle the charming thrill you felt when you spotted Disturbing the Peace, but it's actually an everyday - nay, hourly - occurrence. Libraries, especially large libraries, are tasked with keeping tens of thousands of items in order and findable, yet simultaneously letting we hoi polloi handle, remove, and mis-shelve said items. The current retail price of that book raises a knowing eyebrow (sure, people steal books all the time, and frequenly resell them), but more likely, when the library assistant went to fetch your request, it was on a to-be-reshelved cart, a study table, or haphazardly returned to the shelf between two bodybuilding manuals or some such. Half my working life is consumed in following up on such scenarios. Your libraries should have offered to get the book for you through their interlibrary loan service, I'm just sayin'.
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Paula - 2004-09-06 10:28:02
Hi Janet

I did actually seek the book through interlibe-loan from the outset, and that's what makes the story faintly miraculous--all of the branches that claimed to own the book had reported it missing!

The larger question: Who are all these book-stealing Richard Yates fans walking the streets, and how come I never meet any at parties?
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