The emotional rollercoaster that is book buying

[ladyofastolat]

How to go from crushing disappointment to elation in one minute:

I scroll down to a new screen of books. "Clash of the Dinosaurs: Watch Dinosaurs Do Ballet!" I read. I stop. I double-take. "Ah!" I realise, with crushing disappointment, "it says 'battle.'"

I scroll down to the next screen... and it's a book called "The Rise of Humans," showing a nice hairy Early Man crouching in long grass - (a particularly long clump of grass is tactfully standing tall and proud between his legs) - while clutching a flint and eyeing a very tiny sabre-toothed tiger which is possibly soon to be crushed by half a distant elephant. Yay! It's that Holy Grail of the modern world: a children's Stone Age book!

I'd rather have a book about ballet-dancing dinosaurs, though.

Comments

[leesa_perrie]

LOL! Yes, I want a book about ballet dancing dinosaurs too! :D :D

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Actually, given the fact that there are children's book series called things like Space Penguins and Pirate Dinosaurs, it doesn't sound at all implausible. See my all-too-plausible random children's book title generator, here. :-D (http://ladyofastolat.livejournal.com/455166.html)

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

I vote for the ballet-dancing dinosaurs, too! Somebody needs to write this and have a very talented illustrator!

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I just did a Google image search on "ballet dinosaurs." They exist. :-D