A Funny Thing Happened at the Bookstore...
Ok I have had...well...issues getting my hands on the books by this certain author that we all know and love. Her latest book has proven no different.
I started my search on Saturday...thinking that that would have given the Alaska stores enough time to get Phoenix Law out...and I meandered through store after store. Granted I had visited other stores before going to B&N, so I thought I would be rewarded in my search when I entered that store. But no. I searched high and low...on end caps in multiple sections (just in case) and no luck. So finally I go to the desk (which has a few people around it) and ask for Phoenix Law by Cate Dermody. I notice another customer standing 90 degrees from me look at me hard and start to smile. I think that maybe she has read the book and is wondering why this guy is wanting a Harlequin (which I didn't mention when asking for it)...as I have received interesting looks reading the previous books in the series while in public. ;-)
So I don't give much thought to it...and the bookseller asks how to spell Dermody...I kinda stumble through the first letters...then pause as I try to remember if it has an "N" between the "O" and the "D". The bookseller gets a grumpy look on her face, looks at me and I say "Well I know how to spell her other names." Which earns me an even more perplexed look from the bookseller and a bigger smile from the lady to my left. Then said lady pipes up and whips out the spelling of the name...looks at me and says, "You probably won't find them as I bought all of the copies they had in stock the other day."
Gears begin to grind in my head...hey some of those facial features DO look kinda familiar. Then she says, "My daughter-in-law wrote that book."
AHHHHH I am talking to Ted's mom!
So the rest of the story in brief...
- Ted's mom...you know I never did get her name...one sec... mizkit's blog> ...Bev...and I chat for a bit...kinda ignoring the bookseller. She says that if they don't have a copy that she has one in the car that she just snagged from Wal-Mart...how cool is that!?!
- Computer says they have one copy.
- A very flustered and confused bookseller takes me to try and find it...no such luck.
- I meander back to the center of the store and Bev tells me to follow her...so off we go.
- Chat a bit more on the way out to the car.
- I tell her that I don't have any cash on me and she looks at me like I made her eat something really sour and says "It is Christmas after all." What a cool lady.
- Travel plans to the Emerald Isle are discussed and we both part ways.
So I now have a copy of Phoenix Law...which unfortunately will have to wait until I finish His Majesty's Dragon, to be read.
Oops...almost forgot... mizkit's blog as he leaves>