Sam and I have a had a sweet few days, searching bookstores, building lego star destroyers, wandering beaches, throwing skipping stones and eating the first few slightly sour, but ripe enough to tempt, blackberries of the summer.

We've been looking for 'The Farthest Shore' and looking, and looking...

One bookstore employee explained the lack-apparently they made a TV movie of Earthsea and there's been a run on the books.

Nuts on my bad timing-what not watching TV gets you, I guess.

But finally yesterday, a trip to Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park yielded a nice old, used copy. They had the new ones there too, but if that foppish-looking actor on the cover is supposed to be my Sparrowhawk-bah, they can go suck an egg with their miniseries!

:)

While we were up there we also took advantage of the King County Library. Soon, so soon, we will be in possession of another long sought after item-Space Usagi!

We've read every Usagi we could get our hot little hands on, but there seems to be nary a copy of Space Usagi in the Seattle library system.

It's a good week for persistant bookworms.