While waiting for the latest episode of the Dresden Files to download in Itunes, I thought I'd catch up on a question here, but suddenly I'm torn because I remembered what I bought at the bookstore this evening while waiting for my hairstylist to catch up on her schedule. 

It had been a good six months to a year since I'd seen her last, and I figured, what was another half hour? Well, that half hour can be dangerous when there's a bookstore nearby.  Despite continually reminding myself that it wasn't like I had all that much time to read the books I already had, I couldn't resist picking up the first book in the series by Jim Butcher that the TV series is based on. Will have to let you know how it is if I ever get the chance to read it.

While talking to the booksellers at the Waldenbooks in the Southcenter Mall (which was great--they were so helpful and excited to learn about Mirrorstone, too), I remembered that I wanted to grab a copy of the Buffy Season 8 comic. They only had the first installment, but I was proud of myself for remembering while I was near a place that might sell it! So far, hilarious. I got several strange looks while sitting in the salon waiting room for laughing out loud at some of the dot-connections within the first pages. As others have mentioned before, if you've seen Angel Season 5, there are some little details thrown in for you.

I have a pile of books here next to me with great openers that I wanted to go through one by one to answer the question nomoretwaddle posed in an earlier comments thread. 

However, it's very late, and my episode just finished downloading, so I hope you all won't get too ancy if leave that until later. But at least I have a pile of examples and I'll hopefully have time in the next couple days to get my thoughts on them together.

Until then, perhaps y'all should go find Buffy Season 8 for yourselves! (Have you watched the first seven seasons? And all of Angel? That's what my now-roommate and I have been doing off and on since last summer and we just finished season 7 in Jan. or Feb., so this is fortuitous timing!)