Amaziony

Amazon is pretty amazing, really. I had to make a return. They sent me a label via email, which I printed and asked Sue to package it because I am clueless about such things and she isn't. We are a team; when she needs to order something, she asks me to do it because I am better at that sort of thing.

Once she had packaged it, I took it to the UPS depot. Amazon emailed that they would refund the amount once they had received the package. Believe it or not, I received notice of the refund that same evening.

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Speaking of Amazon, I get notices for Kindle books on FB: for the self-published kinds of works. Recently, I purchased their suggested, Aspire to Die, a Bridget Hart novel by MS Morris. Hart is a female detective in Oxford, Morse's and Lewis's old stomping grounds.

The cost was $2.99, so I purchased it and liked it well enough to order the next volumes all of the way up pre-ordering volume 5.

Consider this as a PSA for fellow mystery readers. We easily run out of titles from the well-known, published authors, so finding another passable mystery is a good thing. At $2.99, it is not much of an investment for anyone to give it a try.

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Speaking of published authors, we have the latest Louise Penny and Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) books on Audible, but right now, I am more interested in reading and not listening. I do find listening a pleasant alternative at times, but I am saving those books for later, maybe in the bleak midwinter. 

Meanwhile, after reading the MS Morris volumes that I mentioned above, I came to realize that I had somehow missed Ann Cleeves' latest Vera tome: The Darkest Evening. It came out earlier this year, and I somehow missed it. Vera is like an old friend,espcially after watching the tv series. I read it in pretty quick time and enjoyed it thoroughly.

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I mentioned above that if Sue wants to order something online, she gets me to do it, partly because I have all of the required information close to hand. She found Merrell hiking boots online and decided she wanted them. She uses such boots as her winter footwear, and her current pair of Merrell boots is very old, but she has been very very happy with them.

So, we made the order, and they came the next day. Yay!

Not yay! Her normal size was too tight, so we were forced to return them as well. 

Meanwhile, she subsequently found from Merrell a pair of shoes/slippers. She has also has a similar pair of these that are wearing down, but when these arrived, they were too large. Same size -- the boots were too small, and the house shoes too large. Go figure.

Merrell also handled the returns without cost by having us print a label and taking it to the UPS depot. This pleased me because I still have negative feelings towards another shoe company which once charged me $10 for shipping. Then I had to pay another $10 on the return. Perhaps the are more competitive now.