Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter

[TooTicky]

I see nobody has bought the one on ebay yet. I have been scouring the charity shops for it. Apparently it was on the radio earlier this year but I missed it
BUT this must mean the BBC have a copy - I wonder if they'd sell...

what, the $850 one? {wink]

I thought it was £850

Probably. I can't deal with such big amounts of money for a book, I just can't. Books should be free and writers should be paid by a state stipend. Like in Norway

As an aspiring writer, I have to say that sounds cool!
I'm still amazed that libraries are funded as much as they are - you'd expect mean, stingy governments to do away with them. So glad they haven't!!

no, but the amount I pay in fines (purely through my own crapness, I might add, I think fines are fair enough) must be helping keep them afloat.

Are you really an aspiring writer? Am impressed. I was once an aspiring writer but now just aspire to sleep. What do you write?

Fillyjonk

what are you doing paying library fines? Get a Home educators' ticket! You get extended loans, no fines ever, free holds and free cds and dvds

:o :o :o

No! They don't do them here!

But its probably for the best, the library would sink without my fines.

I have just had a truly fantastic idea. Maybe I can get the book on interlibrary loan

(I owe them £30 though...)

Stories for children. So much more scope than adult stories and no nasty bits. That, and the fact that I've never really grown up!

What? How do you mean, they don't do them? I thought they had to do them?

sorry to disappoint you but you are very very unlikely to find a rare book like that on interlibrary loan. You could probably go and have a look at one at the British Museum.

hmmm. well they havent actually heard of he-ing. i keep meaning to take it up but only remember when my fines approach triple figures, when it would look a bit obvious really. can you actually get a HE ticket for under 5s? Who are actually in playgroup on morning a week anyway?

Hmmmm. I always assumed that the interlibrary loan system was a form of magic, like CATing. Clearly not.

WTF is it rare anyway?

Whoah! Its going for \link{http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&an=tove+jansson&y=0&tn=sculptor&x=0&sortby=3\£1000 here!}

No, you get the ticket in your name. They don't ask for proof the children are being Home Edded, or ages or anything. In our area it helps to have an EO card though, but it's well worth one year's membership fee to get lifelong library perks :o

interesting.....interesting...

Mr Fillyjonk does not have any fines, such is his way (as in, oooh, 3 weeks have past since I took that book out, I'd better return it...weird...)

interesting...

Of course I've lost my EO card. Of course...but maybe I can blag it...

But there's one for 139.87!

lifelong, you say?

So when I'm a granny and a dietician, I'll still be getting free cds...

interesting....this might be worth pursuing...

God, that actually sounds like a bargain, tt.

Bargains are relative...

It is a bloody superb thing to have, FJ, I too was one of the library's main sources of revenue before I got it

I bet they know all about these he'rs tickets, I bet they just enjoy charging whopping fines on books that they have to go down to the storeroom to get because no-one else wants them. and all those great childrens books...oooh but i would like to be a librarian, that would be sooooo cool.

did you know that they have to sell off all books that are over 8 years old?

ds2 borrowed a book about traction engines recently that was much more than 8 years old!

sorry, said that wrong, out of print books that are over 8 years old must be got rid of.

I'd be amazed if that traction engine book was still in print - must've slipped the net!

tell them and they might sell it to you. i'm sure you'd be glad of such a book...

or just get an eo card.

It's a fascinating book - for a complete obsessive!! There's only so much you can say about the different yet subtly similar engines. And there were pages and pages of them...