What did YOU buy today? November 2025

From the FoL:
The life of Teilhard de Chardin by Robert Speaight
From eBay:
Sexuality and Masquerade by Emma Wilson
Captain Marryat
From a LFL:
War Lord: A Novel (Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), 13) by Bernard Cornwell

I am really not enjoying the last two paperback covers of this trilogy, but today I bought book 3 anyway: The Voyage Home by Pat Barker (historical fiction). My copy of the first book, The Silence of the Girls, has the blue cover instead of the cartoonish style of the last two.

Volunteering at the library bookstore today and found:
Tuf Voyaging
Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to my Life and Times
The Handsomest Man in Cuba
Oscar Wilde’s London

From EBay:
Two Years in the French West Indies

My Silent Book Club made a raid on Chamblin’s Book Mine in Jacksonville, FL:
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese (New York Review Books Classics) by Cesare Pavese
The Devil's Oasis (Anton Rider) by Bartle Bull
China Star by Bartle Bull
The Poppy War: A Novel by R. F. Kuang
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: {The Complete and Authoritative Edition (… by Mark Twain
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman by James Palmer
HHhH: A Novel by Laurent Binet
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagansby Margot Adler

I resisted an ARC until I saw another with a cover I couldn't resist. Then I decided if I was taking one I might as well take the other, too.

The ARCs:
* The Age of Calamities: Stories by Senaa Ahmed (pub 1/26; short story collection)
* _Akiko's Quiet Happiness_ by Jan-Philipp Sendker (pub 1/26; first in a contemporary fiction trilogy)

I must be stopped. Worked at the library bookstore today. 🙄

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A. Fenn
The Gun Ketch (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures Book 5) by Dewey Lambdin
Wild Ducks Flying Backward by Tom Robbins
The Big Book of Espionage by Otto Penzler
CARSON MCCULLERS Complete Novels by Carson McCullers
The Ivory Tower the Early Years: The Complete National Review Writingsby William F. Buckley Jr.
In the Himalayas: Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan by Jeremy Bernstein
The Best of McSweeneys by Dave Eggers
H.M.S. Cockerel (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)

Bought from a friend at her book signing:
Anomaly by Amber Selene
From eBay:
I Am Jonathan Scrivener by Claude Houghton
From the FoL:
McSweeney's Issue 16 by Editors of McSweeney's
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
Travels with Henry James by Henry James
From a local Indy bookshop:
The Witcher Official Cookbook: Provisions, Fare, and Culinary Tales by Anita Sarna

Spent money.

I blame BookTube for Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens.

And I blame PBS for Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by Kathleen Rooney and for The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns.

The Rooney book, I had once ordered a bunch in for a historical fiction table. But watching "American Heart in WWI" reminded me of the story and made me finally buy it. I already have the nonfiction book Never in Finer Company by Edward Lengel. Somewhere.

I won’t mention the duplicates I accidentally bought. 😬

From the NYRB sale:
A Month in the Country
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

>8 varielle: We've all done it. I once bought the same book 3x by accident -- two of the copies had deep discounts, & I guess I was just forgetting that I had it when I saw those stickers.

And: ooooh, Chateaubriand...

Deleted message about an ARC I'm returning.