Tuesday, January 9, 2018

(fire, fury)



I don't really want to buy it. Although I'll admit that if there'd been a copy on the shelf at Barnes & Noble when I stopped in on Sunday, I'd have gone for it. Instead, I saw empty spots in the New Non-Fiction area, and I overheard a salesperson responding to a customer's query about the book by saying, "We've got to send a request to the publisher stating how many copies we want, because they have to print more."

And then there's this:


2 1/2 to 4 weeks to ship a new book from a major publisher to my house? I'm pretty sure I've never seen anything like that before. Not even during the days of The Harry Potter Fervor.

And all of this is whetting my appetite, for sure. I did read the excerpt provided by Amazon (more whetting) and put myself on the hold list at the Louisville Free Public Library. But so did lots of other folks. (I'm currently #13 on 2 copies for the ebook and 21 of 257 for the physical book. Whett, whett.)

And I've seen two interviews with Michael Wolff in the past 24 hours, and for the most part there was more whetting going on there.

So . . . maybe I should satisfy my lust before I go bust and throw my $14.99 down for a Kindle version. Which will arrive on My Device a few seconds after I push the buy it button. 

It's mos def tempting.

News as it hapoens. 

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