What did YOU buy today? November 2024

One ARC due to be published January 2025: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall.

From NYRB: Chess Story
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Boredom
Paris Stories
The Letter Killers Club
The Gallery
From Early Reviewers: Hush the Cannon’s Roar
From eBay even though mysteries aren’t my thing I had to have this one because I have a Scottie. The Scottie Barked at Midnight. Also, Vienna CoffeeHouse Wits.

Grabbed 2 new ARCs:
* The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods (pub 4/25)
* Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd (historical fiction; pub 4/25)

I have multiple books by these authors, but have yet to read any. This new Kidd is at least in my tote today along w/4 library books. We'll see.

I got The Warm Machine in the post (was a preorder), as well as Tarot Assembled this week!

I got The Greenlanders for free from a LFL. From the FoL a Nelson Algren combo The Neon Wilderness the Man with the Golden Arm and a Walk on the Wild Side. From eBay a first edition of Harold and Maude.

A quiet month so far.

I was at the Metropolitan Museum earlier this month, and bought Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, the catalog from an exhibition there a couple of years ago.

Today I bought an ebook of Il Gattopardo, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which we'll be reading in my Italian book club next term.

Bought two books:

* Surviving: Stories, Essays, Interviews by Henry Green (I have some of his fiction on the TBR mountains, but this apparently contains his Blitz experiences)
* Persian Letters by Montesquieu (tried to read it years ago for classics book group, but my ILL copy was due back too soon for me)

I was weak & brought home two more ARCs:
* The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue (pub 3/25; historical fiction)
* Fair Play by Louise Hegarty (pub 4/25; mystery)

I was even weaker today & impulsively ordered 5 books I'd never even heard of before today. Now I just have to wait for them to arrive:

* Death in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
* Dark Summer in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
* Cold Winter in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
* End Games in Bordeaux by Allan Massie
* The Last Line by Stephen Ronson

Went to my favorite honey hole for remainders and found:
Mark Rothko Toward the Light in the Chapel
Desperate Undertaking
Death of a Bookseller
The Truth About Unicorns

One planned & one impulse (from eBay within 30 minutes of an LT notification I read) purchase:

* Raft by Ted Kooser (the planned: I love his poetry)
* I Say No by Wilkie Collins (according to LT, I have 5 items by him, but I don't have anywhere near all my books in LT, so I worry I may have this in an omnibus...)

FYI: I just bought the winter 2024 issue of Civil War Monitor magazine because of the "Best Books 2024" article the cover touts, so if you're into 19C American history...

Got Bewitching Rosemary from the Early Reviewer program today (and have already read/reviewed); I was especially interested having read book one in the series a few months ago.

One of my coworkers set aside an ARC for me: The Quiet Librarian by Allen Eskens (pub 2/25; mystery/thriller). I feel like he's darker than I usually go. We'll see.

Found When Women Ran Fifth Avenue from a FoL.