Sceance needed....any volunteers?

So, I'm reading a book in French by one of my favorite authors, Ansen Dibell, and I'm admittedly struggling a bit. I'm not fluent and, at times, a French-English dictionary just doesn't cut it.

Last night, I got online just to peek around regarding availability of book 4 in the series, and discovered only 2 copies available, both in France, at 55 and 80 euros....too rich for me. However, I also stumbled across a reference to the 4th book in the now-deceased author's memorial guestbook.

So, I skip over to the Funeral Home's guestbook and discover that the reference came from a gentleman to whom the author had evidently given not only a computer file of the 5th book in English, but also a photocopy of the fourth book (evidently no computer file for it exists?). So I e-mail the lucky guy and explain that I'm reading the 5th book in French and ask if he would be willing to give me a copy of the computer file (so I can basically double-check my mental translation).

He responds:
I don't believe that I am allowed to share it. You should ask her.

Now remember...I only know that he has it because he left a note about it in the on-line funeral guestbook.

Busy...

It's weird when you're doing things like revising and critiquing....you don't produce anything, so after hours and hours, you don't have any product. Ick!

Spent a very long time finishing the last of my FenCon critiques, then hours revising Shared Dreams. Posted it on the Bar. Not entirely certain about the ending. It's better than it was, but I'll have to look at it again after I've gotten some mental distance.
( more boring rambling )