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[ewein2412]

I was looking up the ISBN for The Empty Kingdom and discovered that it's been seriously reamed by an Ethiopian reader. Very interesting criticism (it's actually a review of A Coalition of Lions, though he doesn't refer to the title). I'm rather taken aback at his notion that my politics are shamelessly Eritrean Apologist.

http://www.amazon.com/Empty-Kingdom-Mark-Solomon/product-reviews/0670062731/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

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[estara.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I haven't bought any German books in years...

[ewein2412]

well I have just sent you Der Winterprinz. Up until last year the German paperback edition was still earning me royalties--the only edition of the book to have been in print for over ten years! And it is a beautiful little book, with vignettes illustrations. My favorite edition.

It is interesting to see what they've done with the formal and informal direct address. The French translation was very sloppy about it.

I thought you needed this for your collection... Pass it on to a deserving teen if you have too many books!

[estara.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Thank you ^^!!

I'll decide whether to pass it on when I see the edition *is book-greedy*, but if not I can offer it as a prize to one of our reading competitions at school or for some other pupil-rewarding service ^^.

Did you sign it? If I donate it, I'm going to say donated by the author and write about it in a pr-action for the school (and an article in our yearbook) and for you ^^.

You know, I think that's the best thing to show my appreciation of your kindness - you'll get some pr and our school gets the cachet of a personal connection to a living book author *grin*.

*checked Amazon* Darn, I was hoping you had some other German editions I could advertise at school with the donation... it's not worth it if you don't see any of the money.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Well, I can still link to your English site and all... it's just that I teach at a middle school and the likelihood that the boys will buy original English books is very near zero.

[ewein2412]

i didn't sign it because I ordered it direct from Amazon.de. But I'll send a signed bookplate you can stick in it! Also, I've got rather more of the hardback in German than I will ever know what to do with, so I could send some copies of those along if you like.

I LIKE!!!

[estara.livejournal.com]

WAH!! But let me at least reimburse you for the shipping costs, if you do!

Re: I LIKE!!!

[ewein2412]

don't be silly! just keep telling people to read my books.

xx

Re: I LIKE!!!

[estara.livejournal.com]

I'll keep doing that when the book recommendations come around on the English-speaking net, anyway ^^.