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desperanceIt is a part of my pact with myself and the world that I will use some part of the Patreon funds (wait, what? You didn't know I had a Patreon project on the go? My dear! Where have you been? The Chalet School! On Mars! Click here! Some happy subscriber in the next sixty-seven dollars wins a door prize!) to fix the holes in my roof Chalet School collection. For I do indeed have copies of every book - but a depressing number of those copies are the bowdlerised Armada paperbacks, which honestly will not do. They were cut savagely, ignorantly, almost at random: entire chapters taken out wholesale, sometimes, with no thought to continuity.
It's hard, though, trying to fix this problem here in the US. Even the Girls Gone By reprints seem not to be commonly available (ie I can't find them on Amazon.com). Still: we choose to do the hard thing not because it is easy, etc.
Besides which, honestly? It ain't that hard these days. Where Amazon don't go, we always have Abe. (I have always pictured Abe, I must tell you, as a lumberjack: check shirt, big beard, axe, the works. Log cabin. Log cabin lined with books, which he carefully packs up and carries over snowy mountain slopes to the nearest post office, oh yes.)
So: the first pluggable hole in my collection will be Three Go To The Chalet School (first appearance of the ineffable Mary-Lou and the delightful Verity Anne, hurrah!), which currently lies about eight books ahead in my reread. I have ordered a nice clean hardback reading copy from Australia, as there are none to be had in this country, not even for ready money. Will it get here in time? Probably not, the rate I'm going through 'em, but hey. I'm not short of reading matter.
It's hard, though, trying to fix this problem here in the US. Even the Girls Gone By reprints seem not to be commonly available (ie I can't find them on Amazon.com). Still: we choose to do the hard thing not because it is easy, etc.
Besides which, honestly? It ain't that hard these days. Where Amazon don't go, we always have Abe. (I have always pictured Abe, I must tell you, as a lumberjack: check shirt, big beard, axe, the works. Log cabin. Log cabin lined with books, which he carefully packs up and carries over snowy mountain slopes to the nearest post office, oh yes.)
So: the first pluggable hole in my collection will be Three Go To The Chalet School (first appearance of the ineffable Mary-Lou and the delightful Verity Anne, hurrah!), which currently lies about eight books ahead in my reread. I have ordered a nice clean hardback reading copy from Australia, as there are none to be had in this country, not even for ready money. Will it get here in time? Probably not, the rate I'm going through 'em, but hey. I'm not short of reading matter.
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Date: 2015-09-27 10:11 am (UTC)