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Recently, we've been spending extensive time down by the in-laws, due to a confluence of circumstances. So the other night, my wife and I went to the nearby mall, and had a pleasant dinner by ourselves at the Cheesecake Factory. After a pleasant meal we headed next door to the local Borders. It happens to be one of the larger Borders I know, two floors.
As per my wont, I ambled over to the SF&F section, and started to look through the stacks to see what new treasures we might find. My wife had recently finished reading the one novel we'd brought down with, and was probably more than halfway through Outliers, as Gladwell's books tend to be quick reading. I found, however, that my brain was experiencing some serious dissonance with the way this Borders laid out their SF&F section. I guess I'm just too used to my own Borders and B&N, who each tend to have a section near the beginning with the new titles, then a small section with the anthologies, then the regular books, etc.
This Borders just mixes in all the books. Anthologies go wherever in the stacks the editors would be. Didn't seem to have a delineated space for the new books. Further, what finally broke me, was the fact that they didn't sort out the media fiction all in neat spaces after the general fiction. So Forgotten Realms books appeared in the F section. Star Trek appeared in the middle of the S section, Warhammer books in the W. Torchwood over with the Ts, but Dr. Who over in the Ws. It broke me. I honestly stopped being able to process what books they had, and if my wife hadn't been there, we wouldn't have even noticed the latest Kushiel novel now in mmpb. Well, at least that meant something new for my wife to read.
Scary how easily I become attuned to a standard such that ecountering a slight variance just makes me want to shut down and walk away.
As per my wont, I ambled over to the SF&F section, and started to look through the stacks to see what new treasures we might find. My wife had recently finished reading the one novel we'd brought down with, and was probably more than halfway through Outliers, as Gladwell's books tend to be quick reading. I found, however, that my brain was experiencing some serious dissonance with the way this Borders laid out their SF&F section. I guess I'm just too used to my own Borders and B&N, who each tend to have a section near the beginning with the new titles, then a small section with the anthologies, then the regular books, etc.
This Borders just mixes in all the books. Anthologies go wherever in the stacks the editors would be. Didn't seem to have a delineated space for the new books. Further, what finally broke me, was the fact that they didn't sort out the media fiction all in neat spaces after the general fiction. So Forgotten Realms books appeared in the F section. Star Trek appeared in the middle of the S section, Warhammer books in the W. Torchwood over with the Ts, but Dr. Who over in the Ws. It broke me. I honestly stopped being able to process what books they had, and if my wife hadn't been there, we wouldn't have even noticed the latest Kushiel novel now in mmpb. Well, at least that meant something new for my wife to read.
Scary how easily I become attuned to a standard such that ecountering a slight variance just makes me want to shut down and walk away.