{"id":39189,"date":"2021-05-20T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39189"},"modified":"2021-05-19T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T10:58:47","slug":"when-time-many-re-reads-take-their-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/05\/20\/when-time-many-re-reads-take-their-toll\/","title":{"rendered":"When Time & Many Re-Reads Take Their Toll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harking back (again \u2013 because I did so on Monday<\/a> as well \ud83d\ude09 ) to the May 6 post<\/a> in which I discussed rereading books that count as very old friends, you may recall that the \u201cold friend\u201d in question was Patricia McKillip\u2019s The Riddlemaster of Hed<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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My favourite cover treatment — but not my edition!<\/p><\/div>\n

I was still mid reread when I posted, but alas, when I came to the end of the book I discovered that time and not infrequent rereads have both taken their toll, because the last ten pages have completely separated from the spine.<\/p>\n

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Oh no!<\/p><\/div>\n

Although I first discovered the series via the library, my editions (of the trilogy) are relatively early in its now forty-five year life, i.e. Riddlemaster (Book #1) was first published in 1976, and this was a 1985 reprint.<\/p>\n

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My edition. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

I have had it quite a while, but am pretty sure it was acquired in the mid-late 1990s, at a then specialist bookshop in Dunedin (NZ) called (most fittingly) Bag End Books.<\/p>\n

There’s a tribute site to Bag End Books here<\/a> — check it out! Meanwhile, here’s a pic of the “other” Bag End: \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Bag End, Hobbiton<\/p><\/div>\n

Although the book\u2019s still in print it\u2019s mainly available as an omnibus edition, so as I have the second and third books intact, I\u2019ll probably see if I can repair my copy of Riddlemaster<\/em>, since otherwise it\u2019s in very good condition for a paperback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harking back (again \u2013 because I did so on Monday as well \ud83d\ude09 ) to the May 6 post in which I discussed rereading books that count as very old friends, you may recall that the \u201cold friend\u201d in question was Patricia McKillip\u2019s The Riddlemaster of Hed. I was still mid reread when I posted, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39189"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39208,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39189\/revisions\/39208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}