I'm tearing up writing this!

I've been refreshing the tracking info ever since it was posted, and after a 10 day journey where it tried to be delivered to Montana instead of Wisconsin I was hyped to see what it could be.

As soon as I opened the package and saw a book shaped bag all I could say was "oh my god" - it took a lot of determination to open the Open Me! pouch first.

I had mentioned that I loved watching Brooklyn 99 but never finished because creating the free hulu account every month was getting tiring since you needed a new credit card each time (and with saving for a wedding it didn't make sense to pay for it), so the gift card is so highly appreciated! And the bookmark, postcard (with a lovely letter), and bag from the best bookstore in NYC will be used with love (I'm already packing stuff for my vacation this weekend in it).

BUT GUYS - THE BOOK!

The World Is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg was assigned reading during my first college class when I was a wee lass of 16, and it blew my mfing mind. It got me hooked on the Crusades, and even led me to writing my undergrad capstone project about the Knights Templar and Order of Assassins (even though my degree was in Econ). It made me have a history crush on William Marshall and led me to visiting his grave in London in 2015. My copy got destroyed in a move, and the book was last in print in 2002, so finding another copy that wasn't horribly damaged had been hard and put to the wayside. I mentioned it in my profile on the off chance they may know about it.

SANTA GOT ME A COPY! A COPY IN AMAZING CONDITION! I actually started crying a bit when I opened it. My fiance said "holy shit" when I told him what I got. I've added it to my collection of Crusade books and I'm already itching to reread it this weekend. (And for anyone interested here is the first page of it

Santa, from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU! This is so much more than I could have hoped for <3

PS - your address was on the return label - let me know if you'd like a post card in return :)