What did YOU buy today? February 2025

One YA ARC: Everything I Promised You by Katy Upperman (to be published February 2025).

Received in the mail one I’ve been seeking for a while Miss Carter and the Ifrit. Seems like fun. I suspect the recent Tilda Swinton movie Three Thousand Years of Longing was based on it.

>2 varielle: Jealous! It's on my list of the many books I want from that publisher. Resisting...

Went to the FoL and a thrift yesterday. Came back with:
The Wild sweet wine
The Ruin of Kasch
Part of The Furniture
An Imaginative Experience
The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
Diaries: Volume 1, 1939-1960 (Christopher Isherwood Diaries)

Relatively impulsive buy of a brand new history book in hardcover: Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal by Matthew Goodman. This was not one of the two books I planned to buy this month.

I’m working at the FoL bookstore today and as usual I’m my best customer.
The Delicate Prey
Dream of the Red Chamber
War of the Gods
Anna Freud: A Biography

One historical fiction ARC, The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross Benjamin (pub May 2025).

Grabbed it because it's about G. W. Pabst, & I've seen a couple of his films. Plus I own another (unread) novel by Kehlmann, Measuring the World, and want to read Tyll, too.

The Romance of the book and The Outermost House from the FoL.

Another ARC: What Your Body Knows About Happiness: How To Use Your Body To Change Your Mind by Janice Kaplan (pub date ?)

Working at the FoL and found:
Kew Gardens a pristine reproduction of the original
Bloomsbury Recalled
John Keats: A Life
Devices and Desires
From EBay: Mrs. Ziegfeld

A while back I pre-ordered a book I saw mentioned in BookPage. Bought it today: Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney.

I seem to be accumulating her books without having actually read any yet: one ARC of the novel The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods (pub 4/25).

I went away for the weekend and stumbled across an Indy bookstore so they had to have some love from me. So I bought Forest Bathing.

From the FoL: Ecstasy: A Novel, Days Tangier Journal, The Misfortune of Marion Palm , and Joy in the Morning.

From eBay: The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library.

I've been trying to resist the allure of books, but failed miserably today.

Before even getting out of bed I ordered two books:
* _The Berlin Agent_ by Stephen Ronson (I bought -- and read! -- the first book in the series in '24)
* Mother Naked by Glen James Brown (on the just announced Sir Walter Scott prize longlist for historical fiction)

And at work I picked up one of my pre-orders:
* The King's Messenger by Susanna Kearsley (an autobuy author)

I also bought two games magazines, a fill-in (love them) & a crossword (don't like them, but supposed to be good for my brain). And a DVD of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.

No willpower.

I’ve been busy. From the FoL: Species of Spaces and Other Pieces, Passenger to Teheran, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, The Death of Woman Wang, The Priory of the Orange Tree,Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, and M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table.
From eBay :The Return of the Sorcerer

>15 varielle: Wow.

I have a few books on hold at work. Will probably pick them up by the weekend, unless I talk myself out of them...

I went to the BIG library book sale today and for very little money came away with a huge stack which I’m presently trying to find a hiding place for so best beloved won’t be stunned. Back with the list soon.

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
The Collected Essays of Graham Greene
Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words
The Edwardians (Virago Modern Classics)
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Diplomat's Dictionary
Erotic Fantasy Art: Digital Art at the Extremes
The Calligraphy Revival, 1906–2016
Medieval Costume and Fashion
Sylvia's Lovers (Oxford World's Classics)
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II
A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends
Galbraith: The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
How to Haiku: A Writer's Guide to Haiku and Related Forms
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965
Mimi and Toutou go forth: Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
A Winter’s Promise: Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Push Comes to Shove: An Autobiography