Lunchtime search for a copy of Jane Eyre so I can brush up while watching the mini-series (which might only be 2 parts, but still worth reading up again for). My old copy is in Adelaide.

Oh. My. Gods.

You work in a bookstore and you don't know of Jane Eyre? You aren't even a young SF/F-only kid or other sort of person I might have expected to maybe not know Jane Eyre or who wrote it.

Oh. My. Gods!

This is like the time I went to several bookshops looking for My Country by Dorothea McKellar ... and not one single salesperson of several in any of several bookstores knew who she was. Not one! And not one knew the poem either!

I think my head is going to explode.

If any one* of you so much as asks "who is Dorothea McKellar" ... so help me ... I will break something conveniently nearby (my work computer? who knows!).




*Admittedly I don't expect people outside of Australia to necessarily know Dorothea McKellar or her works - hence the links for your (and others', I suppose, lol) reference.

Edit: I forgot to mention they didn't have a copy of Jane Eyre in the end. And another salesperson came in who did know Jane Eyre. ... I didn't try my luck with Dorothea McKellar - I thought I might be pushing it =X