#I guess I'm just stubborn and holding out for a $3 or less copy in like new condition

[televinita]

A very random note, but I am delighted to learn that my library not only still has A Great and Terrible Beauty in stock -- twenty years after its release! M*I*R*A*C*L*E-- they have two copies, plus an audiobook on CD, and A BRAND NEW COPY THAT JUST ARRIVED IN CATALOGING. Like a copy either got lost or wore out and instead of going "natural lifespan reached," they decided to replace it. A 20-year-old book that has not, to my knowledge, retained mega-popular status, but something about it must be working!

(And yet. While they also still have Rebel Angels, they do not have the third book in the trilogy anymore. Punk-ass book jockeys...)