'Twas the day before Christmas...
Dec. 24th, 2006 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gervase_fen...and it was busy busy busy. I got in at 7.50 am to try and a get a head start on banking Saturday's takings - over £6500 of cash, a small tower of credit card slips, a sheaf of book tokens. Add in a £700 change order, a logic problem to determine how we sold minus £35 of book tokens from till 3 on Saturday, and that was the morning gone.
Meanwhile, most of Maidenhead piled in to distract us from our efforts to prep the shop for the post-Xmas sale. (The Doctor Who Storybook for 99p, anyone?) Nevertheless, everything went to plan - Cassie and Cathy (noisily) put up the sale wallpaper in the windows,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girlygoth rebuilt the children's section, Naomi restickered entire tables of books, and everyone pitched in. And we took £10,000 in six hours.
I left the shop at 5.25, just too late for one train back to Fareham, so I killed time and my waistline at McDonald's. A two hour train journey gave me plenty of time to get started on part one (of ten) instalments of G W Dahlquist's "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" - I now wish that I had brought all ten chapbooks with me, as part one reads like a cross between the best of Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels and Susanna Clarke.
Meanwhile, most of Maidenhead piled in to distract us from our efforts to prep the shop for the post-Xmas sale. (The Doctor Who Storybook for 99p, anyone?) Nevertheless, everything went to plan - Cassie and Cathy (noisily) put up the sale wallpaper in the windows,
girlygoth rebuilt the children's section, Naomi restickered entire tables of books, and everyone pitched in. And we took £10,000 in six hours.I left the shop at 5.25, just too late for one train back to Fareham, so I killed time and my waistline at McDonald's. A two hour train journey gave me plenty of time to get started on part one (of ten) instalments of G W Dahlquist's "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" - I now wish that I had brought all ten chapbooks with me, as part one reads like a cross between the best of Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels and Susanna Clarke.
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Date: 2006-12-25 12:49 am (UTC)I'll deliver a further verdict on "Glass Books" when I'm halfway through - the book is already out in the US, to mixed reviews, although the reviewers who like it really, really, like it. Certainly one of the attractions for me is it's faux-Victorian setting - as one critic commented, it could be set in the same London of "Jonathan Strange" fifty years on from the events of that book.
Speaking of faux-Victorians, did you see the interview with Julie Walters in the Sunday Times?
“The fact that it was by Philip Pullman was great,” she says. “The first few lines, about the character’s false teeth, grabbed me at once. And my character is so evil – I thought it would be interesting to get into the head of someone like that.” Walters recently received a letter of thanks from Pullman. “Maisie was so impressed.”