A week or so ago I was bitching about my inability to obtain the latest Jasper Fforde novel , First Among Sequels (the next installment in the Thursday Next series) in a cover that matches the rest of the series. Yes this stupid little thing which shouldn’t be even remotely significant on any level has the potential to piss me off every single time I look at my book case simply by destroying my (somewhat hyperactive) sense of order. But there was a light at the end of the tunnel!!! The gorgeous Miss Cindy Lou who is currently residing in the UK offered to send me a copy of the book as it was released over there which happened to be with a nice matching paperback pulp fiction style cover:
Yay!!! I’m to be spared from the years of annoyance of being forced into having a mismatched series! The importance of which means my bookcase won’t be visually assaulting me at every opportunity… and I won’t start to twitch every time I look at them. Huzzah!!! Three cheers for Miss Cindy Lou who has moved from being one of the understanding people in my life who merely tolerates my often irrational idiosyncracies to now officially being an enabler 🙂
Yesterday I drove the Small Child to school and there was a package! Ah the book! Here ’tis! I opened it all excited and there was the book alright… but in the slightly larger hardcover version not the paperback version that was on the picking slip. I emailed the distributor and pointed out the error. They said it was mistake in the listing and they apologized for sending the wrong version of the book and have offered to refund Miss Cindy for the purchase. However….
Borys: Guess what? You know the book I wanted that Cindy was sending to me?
Yale: Yeah
Borys: It arrived today in the mail.
Borys: But they accidentally sent me the hardcover version.
Yale: LOL.
Borys: They made a mistake. They don’t even stock the paperback.
Yale: Dang
Borys: I got an email from the book supplier they are going to refund it.
Borys: and I don’t have to return this copy...
Yale: Well, that’s not so bad – you don’t have to send it back 🙂
Borys: No
Borys: But :$
Borys: You know I’m still going to have to find a paperback copy right?
Yale: Yeah I know 🙂
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