One of my mother's favourite bloggers, Barbara Emodi, produces posts that she calls 'flypaper thoughts', a bulleted list of semi-connected musings and stories. I love them--here is my version.
- Having borrowed Dorothy Dunnett's Niccolo Rising from the public library and devoured it in a weekend, I put the second book in the series on hold.
- It has been 'in transit' between between the Long Sutton Library and Lincoln Central for nearly eight weeks.
- I am second in the reservation queue.
- I was beginning to wonder if it fell off the back of a truck and into the Wash.
- Walking home recently, I saw a Lincolnshire Libraries truck carrying books to the library.
- There did not appear to be a way for books to escape it.
- The library has copies of the House of Niccolo series on Kindle.
- Because they are Dorothy Dunnett books, they are intricately plotted.
- Which means that if I read them on a Kindle, I will not follow half of the plot.
- I read two of her other books, The Ringed Castle and Checkmate, on Kindle.
- This is how I know.
- To overcome high levels of book-frustration, I asked my local bookshop to order the whole series.
- The bookshop warned me that due to low stocks and supply chain problems, they could not tell me when the books would arrive.
- I ordered used copies.
- A courier from Hermes attempted to deliver the books today.
- I was not in.
- They will try again tomorrow.
- I am not in tomorrow.
- Hermes does not allow me to change the delivery address.
- They also do not allow me to choose a delivery day on which I will be home.
- They do allow me to redirect the parcel to a neighbour.
- My closest neighbour does not have a doorbell.
- To be continued...
No comments:
Post a Comment