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jc barb

always ready when you hold me steady

About Me

Hello, I'm a Community Relations Manager for Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Fayetteville, GA. In an effort to generate an interest in new event ideas, I'd like to invite musicians and authors with cd's or books in distribution to perform or host events at our location. Please contact me for details if you'd be interested in getting your name out in the Suburban Atlanta area.

My Interests

everytime i finally fall asleep, i dream that i'm awake. when am i going to get some real sleep?

I'd like to meet:

first broadcast: A. We are so numerous that we are starving. B. Therefore we must encourage still larger families so as to become yet more numerous and starving. C. When we are so numerous and starving as all that, obviously we shall have a right to take other people's stores of seed. Besides, we shall by then have a numerous and starving army.second broadcast: A. We are more numerous and starving than they are, therefore we have a right to their mash. B. They are more numerous than we are, therefore they are wickedly trying to steal our mash. C. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one. D. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one. E. We must attack them in self-defence. F. They are attacking us by defending themselves. G. If we do not attack them today, they will attack us tomorrow. H. In any case, we are not attacking them at all. We are offering them incalculable benefits.

Music:

bettie serveert, ray lamontagne, paul simon sets my heart on fire, damone and metric(i can't get you out of my head) joan jett, lamb, edie brickell, the cardigans, amos lee, suzanne vega, christina aguilera, george michael, caetano veloso, indigo girls, veruca salt, brandi carlile, nicole atkins.

Movies:

yes, i do also like movies.

Television:

i love to eat baklava and tangerines in bed while i watch television.

Books:

china mieville. my favorite mieville novel is the scar but i recommend any of them. i'm also a big clive barker fan: i read imajica, everville, and weaveworld once a year. other recommendations: iain banks the wasp factory, james morrow's towing jehovah, and obert skye's leven thumps and the gateway to foo. they're all very clever authors. switching between books by robert jordan and george r martin and i'm entertained by both. stephen king's the stand. robert mccammon. jonathan carroll. currently reading t.h. white's once and future king, this is really speaking to me about politics and personality. give it a try if you haven't before.

Heroes:

ray romano. spys and assassins

My Blog

old rant

...the truth of the matter is, all political groups are socialists at heart. the only major difference between them is that republicans want to create a world in which everyone MAKES money and democra...
Posted by jc barb on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:26:00 PST

The Etched City

The Etched City KJ Bishop   K.J. Bishop's The Etched City is&nb sp;an intelligent fantasy written with&n bsp;a literary and poetic g...
Posted by jc barb on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:14:00 PST

The Air We Breathe

The Air We BreatheAndrea Barrett An drea Barrett's The Air We Breathe&n bsp;is a magnificently written novel&nbs p;surrounding a...
Posted by jc barb on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:19:00 PST

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

My summer reading has been influence a bit by the supernatural. I try to split my reading between authors so that I never get tired of one writing style. This summer, however, I decided to stick to a ...
Posted by jc barb on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

Speaks the Nightbird

Speaks the Nightbird Robert McCammon J.C., bookseller              Robert McCammon's Speaks the Nightbird is probably the best book I've read all...
Posted by jc barb on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:46:00 PST

The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick John Updike J.C., bookseller           Women of the world unite and take over! John Updike is not painting you in a good light! O...
Posted by jc barb on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:44:00 PST

The Witching Hour

The Witching Hour Anne Rice   J.C., bookseller              I think this whole themed-reading endeavor was really just an excuse to read t...
Posted by jc barb on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:43:00 PST

The Swarm

The Swarm Frank Schatzing      Frank Schatzing's The Swarm took our bookstore by surprise last summer. For over two years the Germans enjoyed this book before we got our own tra...
Posted by jc barb on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:41:00 PST

Blameless in Abaddon

Blameless In Abaddon James Morrow   J.C., Bookseller              In James Morrow's first book in the Godhead trilogy, Towing Jehovah, Morro...
Posted by jc barb on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:07:00 PST

Galapagos

Galapagos Kurt Vonnegut J.C., Bookseller              I read Vonnegut for the first time a few years ago for a literature class in college. The ...
Posted by jc barb on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:33:00 PST