Cav's Place

Finished Fevre Dream last evening, and earlier that day I received what I had ordered from that other shop I hadn’t ordered anything from so far. In the end, that was Baptism of Fire, The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man’s Fear and Winnetou’s Heirs, this last one being in Romanian and added since I did use to like Karl May way back and was looking for something cheap to get my order above the free shipping threshold. In addition, have an order for Blood of Tyrants from the shop I usually order books from, but since that needs to be shipped from abroad I’ll go pick it up later this month, since adding over 20% to the price by paying shipping for a single book didn’t sound like a good idea.
Was somewhat worried that this order that arrived yesterday will be at least delayed, since all books showed up as in stock and the first three were significantly discounted when I placed it, Sunday evening, but by Monday The Name of the Wind was no longer listed as in stock and I got no confirmation to state that this change was caused by the last copy being reserved for my order, which still showed up as pending. However, since the copy I received had a sticker with the full price on the back and a slightly dirty cover, I guess other orders placed before mine had cleared out any other copies they had and then they gave me the one they had on display in one of their bookstores, since they also have two of those, on top of the on-line one.
The only thing left now is the preorder for the paperback edition of Prince Lestat, which I mean to make in order to get the best price guarantee but which causes something of an issue because Books Express, which is this store I usually order books from, lists two editions and has strange information for one and next to no information for the other. They also weren’t able to tell me any more when I asked and it was only yesterday that I could find some more details myself, though those only confused me more. Still, being as nice as they usually are, they offered to preorder both editions, saying they should be easy enough to sell either way, and then ask me which one I prefer after they’ll arrive.

That’s the good part. The rest is about what you’d expect: Can’t even get myself to write a quick review for Fevre Dream, that review for The Witcher is still there waiting for me, untouched since I somehow managed to put those first two paragraphs together a week ago, even writing this personal post was a struggle that took me a couple of hours and in general the thought of doing pretty much anything makes me want to curl in a ball, whimper and perhaps simply vanish. Tend to only manage to drag myself out of bed after giving up on any plans I may consider for the day in question upon waking up.

Later edit: The information found last night about a certain edition of Prince Lestat was confusing because it was entirely wrong. I somehow spent probably about an hour gathering information about something other than what I meant to look for, writing a message about it and another to ask for more, and never realized I was looking at something different. And now that resulted in Books Express preordering the wrong edition for me, which costs more than twice as much as the one I was actually looking at, obviously through no fault of their own. Wonder how I’ll fix this now.