Books Brought Home July/August 2016

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Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski

Feta Attraction by Susannah Hardy

Yesterday I traded in 3 books and picked up

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire

I've been on a downloading terror lately because Amazon has been offering some good deals on what looks interesting to me:

Gold by Chris Cleave (for some inexplicable reason LT is showing Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and a host of classics like Pride and Prejudice and North and South when you touchstone mark this book, so I unmarked it. Weird.
Serpentine
The Cost of Courage
The Resistance by C. David North (another that comes up incorrectly)
When the Moon Is Low
North and South
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
One Crazy Summer
The Little World of Don Camillo
Learning to Swim
Return to Skunk Corners

I just went to the mailbox and found my Early Reviewer, "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People": And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control by Dennis A. Henigan, and Volume 33 of the Emrys Journal, which has a short story my friend wrote.

Yesterday was my monthly visit to Barnes and Noble and I came home with these:
Lily and The Octopus by Stephen Rowley(loving it so far);
The May Not Mean To But They Do by Cathleen Schine; and
The Girls by Emma Cline

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Bishop's Heir by Katherine Kurtz

Went to another bookstore today, traded in 2, got 6 from my wishlist...

The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body by Cameron Diaz
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley
Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno
Miss Scarlett's School of Patternless Sewing by Kathy Cano-Murillo
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

Oopsy, I was doing good there for a bit, but now I've broken the seal...

On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin

The Hundred Thousand Worlds by Bob Proehl
The Heavenly Table by Donald Ray Pollock
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters

Look forward to receiving them in the post next week.

A visit to the lovely reading/book sale room at a hospital nearby produced these:

Talking God by Tony Hillerman for the nursing home library
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman ditto
The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher
Sleeping Tiger by Rosamunde Pilcher
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Day of the Storm by Rosamunde Pilcher
1434 by Gavin Menzies (the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance)

Also, I have Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay from the library. It's big.

Looks like some odd touchstones here.

My TBR pile has spread all over the poor desk which is the only space for I have for stacks that I won't trip over.

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (paperback)

All of Jane Austen's works on my Kindle... :)

Eternity Ring by Patricia Wentworth

# 12 grkmwk- I read kitchens last year and loved it- enjoy!!

>14 cdyankeefan: Good to hear!

Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin
Essays and Poems by Jones Very
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder

I'm reading Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow.

>18 Bibliophilus: I enjoyed Jayber Crow and Berry's writing.

Masters of Everon by Gordon R. Dickson

I downloaded the collections of Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. I thought I had both already, but couldn't find them. Could only find other individual books by them. Silly to do that when you can get the entire collection.

The Private Patient by P. D. James

Great North Road and If at First... by Peter F. Hamilton

The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball by Dickson Paul arrived in the mail yesterday.

>25 PaperbackPirate: This brings back vivid memories of my Dad who coached high school baseball. Once in awhile he would take us to a White Sox or Cubs game and show us how to score the game on our own game cards. He is gone now but that memory still is strong. Interested in your review after you read it.

>26 JulieLill: What a beautiful memory! Do you still have your cards?

>27 PaperbackPirate: No, unfortunately I don't have the cards but my father coached his high school team to 3 state championships and so far no one has broken his record. (There are a couple of coaches tied for the record though.) I do have his watch that his championship team gave him for coaching them and that I treasure.

Arrived yesterday:

The Outward Room by Millen Brand
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
A Stopover in Venice by Kathryn Walker

Finished The Man Who Was Private Widdle about the sad life of Charles Hawtrey. Still reading Tales of Old Inns by Richard Keverne (but extensively rewritten by Hammond Innes) and The Somme by A.H. Farrar-Hockley.

The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg
The Icerigger Trilogy: Icerigger, Mission to Moulokin, and The Deluge Drivers by Alan Dean Foster

Arrived this week:

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf

Arrived today:

The Music at Long Verney: Short Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Black Rain by Matthew B. J. Delaney

Currently checked out of the library:
Not My Father's Son - Alan Cumming
The Diva Takes the Cake - Krista Davis
The Double Bind - Chris Bohjalian
Murder in Belleville - Cara Black
A Fatal Grace - Louise Penny
One Bad Apple - Sheila Connolly

That should keep me busy for a few weeks....

Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart

Just added to my reader:

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

>35 BookConcierge: Cumming's book is so interesting.

Reading-
I am a Cat by Soseki Nasume and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child picked up at my local(ish) indie bookstore's midnight release party this past Saturday. Read and reviewed.

For this weekend's beach trip, I raided my library's shelves to take:
Smoke
Good on Paper
The Portable Veblen

The Just City by Jo Walton
Initiate's Trial by Janny Wurts

Added A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters to my reader. Am wishing to re-read all the Brother Cadfael novels.

Today I found The Year of the Flood. I already have MaddAddam, so I just have to wait for Oryx and Crake before I start reading them.

Picked up from the library: Vinegar Girl

The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon

Arrived today:

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story by Peter Handke
The Life of John Ledyard: The American Traveller by Jared Sparks
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson
Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins

Arrived today:

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
Gold Fame Citrus, a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins

Added to my e-reader:
One Corpse Too Many and Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, both Brother Cadfael books, and The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, recommended to me by a young friend.

Cut to the Bone by Jefferson Bass
Sisterhood Everlasting by Ann Brashares

>48 ahef1963: Stein's book is good.

Borrowed A Crime of Passion by Scott Pratt

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan
Feed by Mira Grant

Downloaded Animal Farm for book club.

Tonight was Educator's Appreciation Night at my local indie book store. I got Riding Chance by Christine Kendall from the free pile, and I used the 20% discount to get:

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Lisette's List by Susan Vreeland
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (I bought used and discovered when I got home that it's autographed)
Coyote America by Dan Flores

When I got home, A Thousand Hills to Heaven by Josh Ruxin was in the mailbox, which I ordered for book club.

Hooray books!

The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin

Marque and Reprisal by Elizabeth Moon

Date night found us in a used bookstore, bringing home:
Gourmet Rhapsody
A Kind of Intimacy
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

Decided I needed a beach read for my upcoming vacation, so ordered:

The Clothes They Stood Up In and The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Long, long ago (in the eighties, if I remember correctly), I spent part of a summer babysitting a neighbor's two young children for a couple of hours each day. Their favorite books were by Arnold Lobel: The Frog and Toad stories. The children and I soon knew them by heart, which only added to the pleasure, and we never tired of looking at the delightful illustrations. The young family moved away in the fall and we lost touch, but I have often thought I might like to have copies of those books. Why did I wait so long? They are as lovely as I remembered.

Frog and Toad are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
Frog and Toad All Year
Days with Frog and Toad

These books arrived this morning:

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process by Robert D. Richardson
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance

Robert D. Richardson is the author of the biography -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Mind on Fire -- that I've been reading. My appreciation of both Emerson and Richardson grows with each page. Plus, Richardson is married to one of my all-time favorite authors, Annie Dillard, to whom the William James biography is dedicated.

Passage at Arms by Glen Cook

From the library:

This Must Be the Place

Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Martian by Andy Weir

OMG, the Hastings in the next town over is going out of business. The only reason I haven't bankrupted myself there is that I can only get there once a month... God help me!! Here are my most recent acquisitions...

Darker Than Black Manga by Nokiya / Tensai Okamura
Hellhole by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield (disappointing, I'm stalled on Chapter 8, does it get better?)
Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner (not bad, funny, paranormal, more daily life than mystery)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (funny, painful, and where I live, controversial)
Allah, Liberty, and Love by Irshadi Manji

NEW THREAD: https://www.librarything.com/topic/231419

I just picked up Enough Rope, by Lawerence Block and An officer and a spy by Robert Harris.