King

(A POST WITHOUT PICTURES?! I know. I suck.)

This is going to be a short post, seeing as I didn’t do much while I was at King. I didn’t have a lot of time to explore the area and, to be frank, there isn’t much there to explore. If you really want to know what the area looks like, check out my St. Andrew post or Google Map it because I’m probably not going to be going back to that area anytime soon.

Not that it’s a bad area. I just really have no business being there.

Except for, you know, work business. That’s my business being there.

This morning I went to Random House’s Spring Preview. Every year, they host two events (one being the Spring Preview, the other being the Fall Preview) where booksellers go and learn about all the great new things that are coming out and listen to authors talk about their new books. I’ve been meaning to go forever, but haven’t had a chance until this time. I was SUPPOSED to go to the Fall Preview, but let’s not talk about that anymore.

So, I left my place at 9 (the event started at 9:30), which should have been plenty of time for me to get there and settle in and such. HOWEVER, something is majorly wrong with the subway or something, because it stopped randomly more than it usually does. Then, when we got to Union (I did the roundabout way, because it seemed like it would be faster), this huge school of kids got on my car. I would have been fine with this, IF THEY DIDN’T THINK THAT THEY HAD LOST ONE CHILD. But no. They thought they had lost one, and the conductor was too nice of a person to left the thing before.

And the thing is, there was no lost child. The woman in charge had just miscounted them.

YOU HELD UP THE TRAIN FOR 2-5 MINUTES. I EXPECT A LOST CHILD.

In short, I was about 10 minutes late to the Preview. Leah is never late. Ever. It was fine though, I guess, so whatever. BUT STILL.

Some of the books at the Preview actually seemed like they had potential to be pretty good. Most of them aren’t out yet but, when they do come out, I’m running to work and I’m gonna buy all of them at employee prices and it will be lovely. If you wanna know what I’m gonna be reading for the next little while, here’s a list of the books I took note of at the event. Please note that not all of these are new titles – some are just being put into Trade Paperback or are being released with new covers.:

The Imperfectionists – Tom Rachman
The Snowman – Jo Nesbo
The Immortalization Commission – John Gray
A Cold Night for Alligators – Nick Crowe
What Was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Alone in the Classroom – Elizabeth Hay
The Hypnotist – Lars Kepler
The Dukan Diet – Pierre Dukan
Touch – Alexi Zentner
Flip – Martyn Bedford
In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
Noah Barleywater Runs Away – John Boyne (illustrated by Oliver Jeffers)
The Meowmophosis – Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook (I mean… come on. There’s CAT HUMOUR.)
The Warlock – Michael Scott
On The Outside Looking Indian – Rupinder Gill
Robopocalypse – Daniel H. Wilson (And there’s a movie version of this book coming out in 2013, directed by Spielberg.)
Blood Red Road – Moira Young
Various Positions – Martha Schabas

All in all, I had a good time. A few other people from my store were also there, and that was kind of nice.

That’s pretty much all I have to say about my journey to King Station. There isn’t much there… it’s a business/office area. I’m pretty sure my mom works near there, although I’m not actually too sure. I should probably get on figuring that out.

After the Preview, my Creepy Older Brother Figure (he was also at the event) and I went for Sushi at College (which I just realized that I’ve yet to blog about) at the Sushi Shop. It was good; I’d recommend it.

I’m saving my College post for when I go to Fran’s for the first time. I’m pumped. You should be pumped too.

I apologize for the lame post. I assure you, the College one will make up for it.