I haz shinies!
Aug. 21st, 2013 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSooo, we're back, thanks for the good wishes. Dresden was wonderful and Berlin was - well, interesting. The Pergamon Museum was beyond amazing, but other than hat, I don't think I'd ever want to return to Berlin, while I'd use any chance to see Dresden again.
We got back last night very late, as we got into a 2-hour-traffic jam beyond Prague. Today I had to go to Bestsellers, the only English bookshop in town, where I fetched my shiny new US-version of Sherlock - the Case Book. It's great, has lots of background material to both seasons and very, very funny.
But: while I was waiting, I spotted two other little gems on the bookshelf. The one is The Fall of Arthur by the Great Professor Tolkien himself (edited, as usual, by his son Christopher), the other one a medieval mystery titled Hill of Bones by a group of authors who call themselves The Medieval Murderers and wrote the book together. I'm particularly looking forward to that one - it takes place at the end of the 12th century, also only slightly beyond Cadfael times, so it might prove helpful, aside from (hopefully) being a good read.
I also ordered 7 (!) Miss Marple novels - basically those who mostly take place in St. Mary Mead or in another village. I already have 5 of them, so my collection is going to be almost full. The only ones I didn't order were A Caribbean Mystery and Nemesis. I may buy them later, but they won't be of any use for my story Precious Like Rubies, so I'd rather spend my money on them later.
I must ask them if they accept orders for DVDs as well, although it's rather unlikely as they're not selling the things. It would be so nice if I could order the original, British editions of the 3rd series of Sherlock, or the extended edition of The Hobbit, or the second part of the movie, or older Dr. Who stuff - ah, well, one can't have everything.
We got back last night very late, as we got into a 2-hour-traffic jam beyond Prague. Today I had to go to Bestsellers, the only English bookshop in town, where I fetched my shiny new US-version of Sherlock - the Case Book. It's great, has lots of background material to both seasons and very, very funny.
But: while I was waiting, I spotted two other little gems on the bookshelf. The one is The Fall of Arthur by the Great Professor Tolkien himself (edited, as usual, by his son Christopher), the other one a medieval mystery titled Hill of Bones by a group of authors who call themselves The Medieval Murderers and wrote the book together. I'm particularly looking forward to that one - it takes place at the end of the 12th century, also only slightly beyond Cadfael times, so it might prove helpful, aside from (hopefully) being a good read.
I also ordered 7 (!) Miss Marple novels - basically those who mostly take place in St. Mary Mead or in another village. I already have 5 of them, so my collection is going to be almost full. The only ones I didn't order were A Caribbean Mystery and Nemesis. I may buy them later, but they won't be of any use for my story Precious Like Rubies, so I'd rather spend my money on them later.
I must ask them if they accept orders for DVDs as well, although it's rather unlikely as they're not selling the things. It would be so nice if I could order the original, British editions of the 3rd series of Sherlock, or the extended edition of The Hobbit, or the second part of the movie, or older Dr. Who stuff - ah, well, one can't have everything.
