No CC/sorcery tales from the readership?
Your ping didn't come up on my side. Maybe the others on the thread did not receive it either. I've pinged people via the "all" before, and they've said they didn't recall seeing the ping. So I'm not sure if it works "all" the time. Here's a scene from Potter. Click the image to view the trailer.
Yes, "all" doesn't do much; it's just a way of avoiding directing the reply to any one person more than anything. I won't even watch the trailer for something like this. Prefer to be naively ignorant but safe, I guess. Plus they all look creepy in the outtake, IMO.
Thank you for the generous offer of the book -- I'll scout around nearer to home first. My trailer park (pun) is having a book sale so if I get extremely lucky I'll find one there.