At last...
Oct. 24th, 2009 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugee"Evangelion Volume 9's on my desk, all's right with the world."
I got the mail this morning, and was delighted to find a smallish package, about the size of your average manga waiting in our mailbox. I ran upstairs to open it pronto, though I did so with some trepidation: I feared that somehow, someone had made a mistake and accidentally sent me the Japanese version. But to my relief, once I got through the Tyvek mailer, there it was. The cover is a bit bent and it's a little warped, but the pages are all there, and that's all that matters. I still can't believe it's here, though, and I keep glancing over at my writing desk to see if it's really there....
In the meantime... I ran across and ordered two more books, which were favorites of mine as kid, and which I took out of our town's library almost every Hallowe'en: a pair of Hallowe'en poetry books, one entitled "In the Witch's Kitchen" and the other "Ghost Poems", edited and illustrated with very atmospheric ink and watercolor pictures by Tomie de Paola. The books disappeared from the library some years ago, which left me feeling tricked... but thank heavens for Amazon.com!
I got the mail this morning, and was delighted to find a smallish package, about the size of your average manga waiting in our mailbox. I ran upstairs to open it pronto, though I did so with some trepidation: I feared that somehow, someone had made a mistake and accidentally sent me the Japanese version. But to my relief, once I got through the Tyvek mailer, there it was. The cover is a bit bent and it's a little warped, but the pages are all there, and that's all that matters. I still can't believe it's here, though, and I keep glancing over at my writing desk to see if it's really there....
In the meantime... I ran across and ordered two more books, which were favorites of mine as kid, and which I took out of our town's library almost every Hallowe'en: a pair of Hallowe'en poetry books, one entitled "In the Witch's Kitchen" and the other "Ghost Poems", edited and illustrated with very atmospheric ink and watercolor pictures by Tomie de Paola. The books disappeared from the library some years ago, which left me feeling tricked... but thank heavens for Amazon.com!
