book purchase! at LAST

I've been really pissed at Akademiska Bokhandeln because every fucking time I've gone in there recently, they don't have anything I want. They were completely sold out of Sherlock Holmes books for months and didn't get any more; they had run out of new Heyers and, even though Heyers have been going off their shelves at a steady rate since they started stocking the new Arrow editions over a year ago, they haven't gotten any more in; they previously had stocked a few of Zelazny's Amber novels, but they never had the first one in the series, and the same with Lois McMaster Bujold's current saga; and they keep selling out of DWJ's The Game, The Pinhoe Egg and Conrad's Fate and then restocking them without stocking any of her 20 million other books that have recently been reprinted, or getting in a single copy of her new book. I was about ready for a boycott, but I went in to please Wax today and managed to come out with



Yay! I don't have paper copies of Holmes of my own, and I've been coveting this edition, from Penguin classics, since I first saw them. They didn't have Scarlet or Adventures ("Should we stock the first one in THIS series, boss?" "No! I don't think people who read in English like to read the first book in a series"), so I kinda just picked this one at random. And I've been meaning to pick up The Luxe once I could get my hands on it.