[Magdalen] Xmas prezzie for myself.

[Sibyl Smirl]

I always like Dean Koontz, though not fanatic about him, and he does 
keep getting better.  I do have to carefully steel myself against the 
"horror" elements of his more recent work (I absolutely refuse to read 
Stephen King!).  I'm on his fan mailing list, and pre-ordered the new 
one, "Ashley Bell" for my Kindle.  I figure that books on the Kindle are 
basic living expenses, though I do try to get mostly the cheapest and 
free ones when they're available, and his are not that.  It was released 
and arrived on Dec 8.  I didn't start reading it for a few days after 
that, and it truly blew me away!  So my Xmas Prezzie for myself, as such 
an unwarranted luxury that I really shouldn't get and pay for, was a 
signed hardcover (1st edition) of the same.  Sort of like Mike, I 
really, really wanted this one for my permanent library -- while I enjoy 
reading on Kindle, I'm so aware that they could disappear or be edited, 
or just have the machine or my computer break down, or Amazon.com go out 
of business and its cloud disappear, etc, that the books I have on it 
just don't feel like "mine", or "permanent".  It hasn't arrived yet, but 
I did order it just before Christmas, with just that "excuse".


On 12/28/15 8:23 PM, Ann Markle wrote:
> I bought myself a new watch band.  My Seiko solar came with a black leather
> band, which I wore till it broke.  Then I got a brown leather one that I
> should never have accepted -- it was too big.  So I got myself a nice
> gold-and-silver tone bracelet that I'm enjoying very much.  It looks very
> nice with the gold and silver rectangular watch.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:20 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Xmas only because I ordered it today.  The Oxford Companion to English
>> Literature, 5th ed, 1985 printing, mint condition, easily spot on or real
>> close to the copy I used to own during my latter college years.  How the
>> hell my Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church survived the Divorce Book
>> Divestment but the OCEL didn't, is beyond me.  (As is why it's taken so
>> long to replace it!)
>>
>
>


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