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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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10:09p - Spring retreat
No, I don't mean a trip to Florida. I mean that we have a new winter storm watch. And on the radars it looks as if New England is getting plastered right now by a different system. Current forecast for my location says six inches of snow tomorrow night and possibly a bit more during the day on Friday. We'd just finally gotten rid of most of the dirty old snow on the ground, so I guess someone figured we needed a nice new layer.
At work people have started asking to be on the request queue for Christopher Paolini's third book in the Inheritance series, Brisingr, which isn't due out until mid September, so I set up the waiting list to keep them happy. Our regular bookseller is estimating the price of the book at $67.47. I assume they think it will be two volumes each the size of the seventh Harry Potter book. That's the only way the publishers could justify such a price. We got the paperwork for the preorder a couple of weeks ago and it included pages of legal contract and promises not to let anything out of our hands before the official release date. The legal verbiage exceeded that required for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The latter was a fair bomb of a book in my opinion, hardly worth the paper it was printed on. I don't expect Brisingr to be any better, alas.
current mood:  aggravated (comment on this)
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