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[rockinlibrarian]

Hello? Hello? LiveJournal? Are you better now?

Well, I've managed to consistently get on and load various pages for a few hours now, so we might be in the clear. I was getting a little frightened that I might never be able to access LJ again (so it's a good thing that, with grrlpup's help, I coincidentally managed to archive it all just last week). Still, I would have missed it. I would have missed my Friends' Page, even though most of it is outside feeds anymore anyway. I would have missed my Friends' LIST, even though half those people haven't been logged on in years. I would have missed the communities and the random clicking through onto other people and places, and my bio page with its ode to Perry, even though he is no longer right outside my workplace (or, my workplace is no longer right beside HIM, whichever).

Well, hopefully all the bugs have been ironed out again, and whoever's got a problem with the expression of Russian Political Opinions can leave us people who HAVE no Russian Political Opinions out of their Cyberbullying Crusade next time.

So, if you happened to miss the post I made in the one hour on Monday in which I could actually get on to LJ, because you yourself couldn't get on, here it is! It's all about books! Which is what ya'll asked me to post! Well, some of ya'll. And as iamdamanda and I ended up having to continue our comment-discussion of Hunger Games movie production on Facebook instead of there, thank you stupid hackers, you might have missed these MORE pictures in EW! Which is an unfortunate set of initials for a magazine when the pictures are not "ew" at all! I am starting to get seriously excited about this. My dear Peeta may turn out awesome on the big screen after all.

Oh, and in other book news, although this is primarily for punterschlagen, I FINALLY got my hands on The FitzOsbornes in Exile. I KNEW we were SUPPOSED to get it from Junior Library Guild in their June shipment, but what with the move and all, the tech room has a bit of a backup when it comes to processing. I was snooping around in there yesterday and ended up finding it deep in a box buried behind a bunch of other boxes. So I took it home and am reading it, and will put it back, and maybe Tech Services will get around to processing it by Christmas, possibly. So anyway, that means I am now reading ANOTHER book which is exciting enough to mention. Oh, Michelle Cooper, I don't know how you got into my teenaged brain, but you are welcome to stay there as long as you like.

And for my sister, I'll throw in some real-life stuff. Maddie wants to potty-train. What this actually means is she wants to run around without a diaper on and cheerfully inform me after she has gone on the floor. But it's a start.

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[sal_amanda]

I shared that link with my office and there was a collective sigh of longing for Peeta. That bakery shot is too beautiful. They keep building up my expectations so this really better not suck.

Good luck with the potty training and all. I've got some time before I have to endure that and when I get there, I'll probably be looking for help on what to do with a boy in that department.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

I LOVE the bakery shot. It shows so much about both Peeta and District 12 just right like that. I'm also loving the one of Katniss and Gale in the woods, but that may be just because the lighting/the woods themselves are so gorgeous.

Sam was surprisingly easy to potty-train, but I think it's just because we put it off so long that he was Totally Ready by the time we DID. Maddie's probably ready, but not OVERready, so this may be more complicated.

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished FitzOsbornes in Exile, loved it, and found Michelle Cooper's blog and started reading it yesterday. Enjoyed her blog-writing tremendously, and as I'm procrastinating something, I read backwards through her earlier posts (including a cool one where she asked people to post, for fun, dream casting ideas [not that there's a movie planned], and I started thinking that Jena Malone might be just right for Veronica, or possibly Sophie, with her inner toughness and intelligence).

Then she had a post about how she didn't respond to blog reviews, because she'd have to respond to all of them, she felt, but she is grateful for them -- and she quoted you!! So I came here to post that, and you'd just posted about her new book. Coincidence, synergy, whatever, it made me smile.

http://michellecooper-writer.com/blog/2011/01/to-respond-or-not-to-respond-to-reviews/#comments

So I'm looking forward to your thoughts on that. :)

-Genevieve

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you for telling me about this! I am so tickled to have made her day with my review there! It's a Mutual Admiration Society of Squeeishness!

And I am definitely loving book 2. Too. I'm terrible at dream casting, though, mostly because I don't know the names of any actors young enough to do these parts!