Sandman!!!

[sivaroobini]

So Wednesday was the day we student librarians split up into two groups to go to Kinokuniya and HMV to update our book and DVD stock, respectively. As you can guess, I eagerly volunteered to lead the Kinokuniya team. 

The Nanyang JC library's Sandman collection is incomplete, missing Dream Country, Season of Mists, and World's End. It would also be lovely if we had Endless Nights and the two Death books, Death: The High Cost Of Living and Death: The Time Of Your Life. With that in mind, after snagging quite a few other books along the way and gleefully placing them in my basket, I finally arrived at the Graphic Novels section (and by this point the basket was near full and extremely heavy).

Sweet Merlin. They had an entire shelf devoted to The Sandman!!! The entire series in individual volumes, including Endless Nights, and the Absolute Sandman collection, and the Death volumes, and I think I squee'ed. And you know the best bit? It was so much cheaper than Borders! Season of Mists was about $49.90 at Borders, (I was poking around there while waiting for my sister to arrive so we could go watch Half-Blood Prince the day it came out, and asked about SoM but couldn't afford it) but $27.30 at Kinokuniya! ^_^

So, very happily, I proceeded to buy myself both Sandman #4: Season of Mists and Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors. When I got home I actually jumped for joy once in the privacy of my room. :DDD

I started reading it on Wednesday night and finished at noon yesterday and IT WAS FREAKING AWESOME. I'm re-reading it now because Neil Gaiman is just that wonderfully talented. xP

But man, all those books were heavy. +_+ It's been a couple of days and my arms still ache, especially if I stretch them! And occasionally my lower back twinges. o_0

Also, I have brought Gabriel ( cattygabriel ) to dear_mun  and  sixwordstories . Through dear_mun , I met a very charismatic and fun-to-talk-to Lucifer, aka grace_descends , and have been thoroughly enjoying myself talking to those two at their RP LJs. I've also met various other angels, including a couple other Gabriels; most of them are from Supernatural RP, though. It's still fun talking to them; currently I'm chatting to a pretty and interesting Uriel at  sixwordstories  . ^_^ I also met Morpheus, aka the Sandman himself, as anoldaspect ! :DDD

This Lucifer's characterisation is based off the Lucifer from the DC comic series Lucifer, which in turn was based off the Lucifer from Sandman (especially in Season of Mists). Since it is extremely bloody hard to find Lucifer here - I found a couple of copies, from the middle of the series, at Borders and none at all at Kino - I mentioned that I knew nothing about that canon to grace_descends .  And now I am forever indebted to 'Lucifer' for uploading the entire Lucifer series and sending it to me as a .rar file! Plus, he sent me the link to download CDisplay to read it!

I now have the whole of the Lucifer comic series in my folder! :D:D:D I swear, I had this humungous grin on my face for aaages. The problem now is that I want to start reading so badly but I know I'll get hooked, so I must wait until after my Promotional exams are over, and the last day is on 15th October. *sigh* I must wait, and wait, and study, and study, and write important and very tough exams, and then FINALLY get to read it... :S Ah well. The point is, I can read it! xP It's in this computer!!! ^_^ *still cannot get over that fact*

Thank you SO MUCH, grace_descends , and I will be your willing slave until the next attempt at Armageddon. xD