And it doesn’t help that the new ones don’t belong together, so on the shelf I have one black spine, three coloured spines, and two black spines, rather than a nice continuum of six books, or even three and three. Also, the new covers are more matte in finish than the slick glossy covers I find more aesthetically pleasing. 1998 printings I received have a redesigned spine that is significantly different in appearance. I ordered the books, erroneously assuming that they would fit seamlessly into my collection. I was pleased to note that despite being listed as reprint editions, they continued to display the Karen Barbour cover artwork of the 1994 HarperPerennial first edition trade paperbacks I already owned. (Of course, that also committed me to reading the entire six-volume series.) I checked out for the three books I needed. By the end of Babycakes I was distracted by other reading and left off.įour years later, I caught a segment of the PBS miniseries on Showtime and decided that not only did I want to re-read the first book, but that it was finally time to fill the lacunae in that area of my bookshelves. I quickly purchased the next one, and over the next few weeks, as I finished each, I picked up #3 and #4 as well. I first read the original Tales of the City in the fall of 1995, when a friend loaned me her copy and I blew through it in two days.
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