What did YOU buy today? June 2026

Back volunteering at the library bookstore and found:
Consider the Fork
The Librarians of Lisbon

From eBay:
Tros of Samothrace

I bought a new food counter because my old one mostly just did calories, fats, and carbs. This one has the fiber & potassium numbers I wanted, plus more: The Food Counter's Pocket Companion by Jane Stephenson & Rebecca Lindberg.

From the FoL:
Edward R. Murrow: An American Original by Joseph E. Persico
Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (British Library Crime Classics Book 0) by Michael Gilbert

>3 varielle: Both sound great!

Dang. Grabbing a historical mystery ARC due to be published 6/26: Blood Caste by Shylashri Shankar.

Out thrifting:
Traveling with pomegranates
Nice is just a place in France

Dang. I should never have read the back of this generational family story ARC: The Responsible Party by Claire Carusillo (pub 8/26).

Dang. Another ARC, this one just published, and of humorous contemporary fiction: I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney. It was already on my want-to-read list.

Out thrifting and found:
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious by David Lebovitz

Oh, I have been so bad!

Shakespeare’s fight with the pirates and the problems of the transmission of his text, by Alfred W. Pollard
The Sorcerer’s Tale: faith and fraud in Tudor England, by Alec Ryrie
A is for Ashbee: an Arts and Crafts alphabet, by Peyton Skipwith
9 Lives: a museum guide, by Alan Crawford
Recollections of Oscar Wilde, by Charles Ricketts
James McNeill Whistler, by Carol Jacobi
The storm-cloud of the nineteenth-century, by John Ruskin
Schiaparelli: Fashion becomes Art, by Sonnet Stanfill
Kelmscott Manor, by Society of Antiquaries of London
Blackwell Within: a photographic evocation, by Graham Murrell
A Line around a shadow, by Edmund de Waal
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Italy, by George Rawson
A Bedroom at Bath, by Trevor Turpin

This does not include two books I bought as gifts for other people.

Now I have to get these in my luggage.

>10 lilithcat: I once visited the Folio Society when they were on Liberty Street in London. I came away with the entire Master and Commander set and flew to the States with it in my carryon. Fortunately they didn’t weigh it. It was all I could do to carry it. 😜

Dang. Another ARC, this one futuristic fiction due to be published 9/26: Ply: A Novel by Hernán Diaz.

On the plus side, if I can keep(?) being persnickety, I'm on track to only add half the books to my living space as last year. Last year between purchases and ARCs my total was 88.

I also just cut my library hold list by 50%. And I plan to minimize to almost nil the books from other libraries in my system I check out. I already have a bag set aside to return.

I’m back at the FoL bookstore and found a few to add to my Julian Stockwin collection.
Quarterdeck: Thomas Kydd 5
Mutiny (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Artemis (Kydd Sea Adventures, 2)
Seaflower: A Kydd Novel (Kydd Sea Adventures Book 3)