A Little Cup of Cyanide

I'm trying to start reading more. So, I went to Borders and bought a couple books. Okay, I bought a book, the next Angel Sanctuary, and an issue of AP. The point is that I'm reading. Anyway, they asked if I wanted to get a Borders reward card, and I figured why not? So I got it, and they send me these shortlist things in my e-mail. Honestly, I would never buy anything they have in the shortlists. Except for today, they had some really good stuff. White Stripes! Woo! And I'm looking forward to seeing Bridge to Terabithia. But I was looking at the price to pre-order the last Harry Potter book, which by the way, is cheaper on Amazon. And I found a community thing dedicated to debating whether Snape is good or not. I'll be getting back to that later.

So, I joined the site just to give my opinion. I've actually posted on the site a grand total of one time. But it's pretty cool. It's called Gather.com. It's basically a forum site, and they have everything. Even if they don't have what you're looking for, you can make a community of your own.

You're probably wondering why this is shameless self-promotion. Well, they're having some promotion thing where if you can get five people to join, you get a $20 Borders gift card. Which I need. I would love to buy my books from Amazon, but that involves begging my dad for the credit card. And have you seen Borders prices? I need some extra money to buy from them. They're the only bookstore around here that sells Angel Sanctuary. Just in case you need more of a reason to help me out (not that you need it, since you must be an uber nice, caring, thoughtful person who would just jump at the chance to help out a fellow human being) I give you the top five reasons you should join Gather.

1] It's free.
2] You get to show off your knowledge, or argue until hell freezes over, about whatever you're into.
3] You can earn points to get stuff by participating on the site.
4] Make lots of new friends with similar interests.
5] You can get five more people to join and get your own Borders gift card.

And don't forget you'll be helping me out. But that would be six things, and lists of five are so much tidier. So if you want, just go to this site: http://www.gather.com/inviteLanding.jsp?parentMemberId=29... and sign up.