i hotfooted it to the library at sengkang but there were no five-findouters in at all - plenty of secret sevens and famous fives though, quite a number of the X of adventure series, and one malory towers - in the fifth - which is the one about the christmas pantomine. what's up with these new issues though? they have completely hideous covers and look more like early-teen romances. what happened to all the sensible brown-pinafored girls with orange waistbands? girls with lacrosse sticks shooting goals and in bathing suits diving in? oh and while looking around i found this site - a collection of the original blyton covers take a look and see how you feel about these. nostalgia!

jasper ffordes island-wide are still out - at least, the only three copies of the second installment - concerning thursday next's work with jurisfiction - that are not on loan are at jurong, marine parade and central library, all not places i'd like to make a special trip to - though i might go to central library - it's near enough dhoby ghaut. i've got a foot reflexology session at centrepoint this week and i can probably stop at the library afterwards. in the meantime, i am creeping through goethe.