Tealin's Thud! Saga

If the bookstore doesn't have it (as they didn't have Grim Grotto on its release day last year) I will ... I will just have to look somewhere else.

And if they don't have it, I'll have to stop at the other bookstore on the way home.

And if THEY don't have it ... I will be right pished.

As of this moment: three hours and one minute. Plus travel time.

11:45 am
So I have just checked availability on the Chapters site – all the affiliated stores in my area declare it 'not available.' GRRR. I may check anyway, because I am desperate.

1:15 pm
Well. Chapters hadn't stocked it by the time I got there. (They also have really terrible catalogue find-it-yourself computers) I had always been told Chapters was evil, but I'd never believed it until now. Bookstore B, my trusty backup in the Snicket department, also didn't have it, but they devote about eighteen inches of shelf space to Pratchett anyway so that's no surprise. Bookstore C, which I only remembered when already on my rounds, had gone out of business. There is no joy in Thud!ville.

I did, however, see a newspaper vendor doing a jolly dance, which made up for something.

9:45 pm - In Retrospect
God, or Fate, or Anoia, or Random Fluctuations in the Space/Time Continuum has a funny way ... When I got home today, from a day of fruitless Thud! searching, I found that the copy of The Fifth Elephant which I'd bought back in July (and had assumed was bunged under the floorboards of some fictional post office somewhere) had been delivered. Moments like this just don't happen in real life ... like the arrival of my sister's Social Insurance card or The Mad Greek restaurant, they serve as proof that the real world and the universe of fiction intersect, on occasion, and things can cross over.

The Thud! delay also means that I can finish Sourcery before I switch books.

I've always considered myself a patient person... and even now I'm not writhing on the floor in frustrated agony,* so a couple days more? No big deal. It would have been nice to get it today, the day I've been looking forward to for months, but ... whatever. Hey, maybe I'll have to wait till after Thanksgiving.** But I'll keep checking, and maybe get a paper from the dancing vendor.

*I wouldn't be able to type, if I was.
**Canadian Thanksgiving is this coming Monday.

Prerequisite

For clarification in the coming weeks:

Thud! (a.k.a. THUD!, Thud, and probably THud and THUUUUD!!!!!) is the newest Discworld book, by the inimitable Terry Pratchett. You can find out more about it here. (That may or may not be a sales plug, but Amazon has the most information on it, so there.) So, to newcomers who have not been following my intensely boring Thud! saga, that is what Thud! is, not a randomly abused onomatopoeia.

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