What did YOU buy today? October 2024

Time for a new thread; guess I'll start us off?

I got Geologist's Primer in the post today! (Kickstarter books are a surprise present for later me when I back them. *coughs*)

I’ve been greedy.
From the FoL: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
The Complete Victorian Treasury
The Witch in the Wind
Jane Austen’s England
The Cabala and the Woman of Andros
5 volumes of Dudley Pope’s Ramage series
Living with Lace
Not War but Murder: Cold Harbor 1864
From eBay: A Curious Invitation
From Daedalus: Miss Dior
The Book at War

Copying this to October:

Apologies for what I might do to your pocketbook, but:

Princeton University Press has a 70% off sale in October. Check their site for what's available.

PUP

>2 varielle: I know I have a Cold Harbor book. Not sure it's that one, though. I read the first Ramage book for my historical fiction book group years back.

And at the bookstore I put together a "books and war" endcap, fiction and non, & The Book at War is one of the titles on it.

One book ordered & bought because I was scrolling the PUP website after hearing about the sale: The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov.

From the FoL: Reclining Nude. Someone had kind of hidden it because I guess they thought it was naughty. It’s an art book with famous portraits of relaxing ladies.

Removed because of my personal stupidity. Yes, I did buy a book in paperback that I forgot I bought in hardcover...

Thanks to LT, I'll be returning it tomorrow.

Brought home an ARC for a novel to be published in March of '25: The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry.

I was traveling in Italy, so lots of books in Italian:

Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci: la casa-studio dell’architetto a Villa “Il Roseto”
365 modi di dire alla fiorentina, by Raol Vittorio Sticcer
Un giardino a Venezia, by Frederic Eden
Libri a Venezia, by Giuseppe Richeri
Venise la nuit - Rêve / Venezia la notte - Sogno, by Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
Séjour à Venice / Soggiorno a Venezia, by Marcel Proust
St. James of the Deep Stream / San Giacomo di Rialto, by John Ruskin
San Michele Cemetery Island, by Gianluca Costantini

These two I didn't buy. The first was given away as part of at an exhibit I saw in Venice, and the second is a book about the same artist that the exhibit staff gave me!

Grand Hotel, by Ydessa Hendeles
The Milliner's Daughter: the Art Practice of Ydessa Hendeles

and this one I bought tonight:

The thirty-six immortal women poets

From the FoL Death of an Airman reprinted by the British Library Crime Classics.

Also, NYRB is having a big anniversary sale this weekend so I ordered a load. Will report back when they get here.

Bought the 3rd book in a series today: Mrs. Porter Calling by A. J. Pearce (WWII historical fiction).

From eBay: Among the Gently Mad.