On Thursday, I joined Karli's family in celebrating her mother's birthday at Hy's Steak House. (Which I found to be an unexpected choice of venue, given that both Karli's mother and stepfather are vegetarians, but apparently they have some good options for the no-meat crowd.)
While we were waiting for our drinks to arrive, Karli's sister Lisa presented us with a surprise gift, which she had picked up at The Flame, a monthly storytelling series based around true personal stories that she had attended the day before.
To our surprise, it was a copy of the Epic Yarns version of A New Hope, which Karli had originally wanted to give me for Christmas, but had been unable to locate, and ended up substituting The Empire Strikes Back in its place. It turned out that Lisa had attended The Authors Edition of The Flame, and Epic Yarns co-creator Holman Wang had been among the local authors who spoke that night. Lisa, who was completely unaware that A New Hope had been on Karli's shopping list*, or that I had attended Holman's talk at the Vancouver Writers Fest*, spontaneously decided to buy us a copy of the first Star Wars book from Mr. Wang, thereby providing an unexpectedly happy postscript to the holiday season.
Now that I have the first two, I decided that it made sense to get the third book in the Epic Yarns series - after all, it's a trilogy - and just out of curiousity, checked on A New Hope while I was on Amazon.ca. Not only was it out of stock, but third-party sellers had apparently decided that if Amazon™ didn't have it, they could charge as much as they wanted, with prices for new copies set at an oddly consistent $69.61.
Fortunately, Amazon™ did have the Wang brothers' take on The Return of the Jedi in stock, and I ordered a copy, thereby completing the set. Oh, and other book sellers? List price is $14.95 - just sayin'.
- Sid
* Sadly, it would appear that Lisa is not part of The Infinite Revolution's readership.
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