Sunday, May 10, 2009
Stockpile!
If only I were reading as quickly as I'm accumulating. . .
Julia Strachey's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace
Snorri Sturluson's The Prose Edda
Ivy Compton-Burnett's Manservant and Maidservant (one of Iliana's suggestions for Slaves; we selected Patrick Hamilton's The Slaves of Solitude for discussion at the end of May)
Caroline Blackwood's Great Granny Webster
Winifred Peck's House-Bound
Jocelyn Playfair's A House in the Country
A.S. Byatt's The Children's Book
Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet (review copy)
Hilary Mantel's Learning to Talk
John Wyndham's The Chrysalids
Hilda Bernstein's The World That Was Ours
Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs. Lippincote's
Dorothy Whipple's The Priory
Dorothy Whipple's They Were Sisters
Bernard Beckett's Genesis (review copy)
Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days
Christina Sunley's The Tricking of Freya (review copy)
Marcelle Pick's The Core Balance Diet
And purchased for the Kindle:
Christian Moerk's Darling Jim
Michael Dirda's Book by Book
E.M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady (because of MFS and Danielle)
Janet Malcolm's Reading Chekhov (because of Dorothy)
W. Somerset Maugham's The Magician
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (because of its incorporation into Andrew Crumey's Sputnik Caledonia)
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A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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Delicious pile of books! I've been waiting for the new Byatt book. Don't know if I can hold off until the paperback comes out..
ReplyDeleteAwesome stacks of books you have there! I'd love to read a bunch of them myself, including the Delafield and the Maugham.
ReplyDeleteWhat a glorious lot of books! I'm particularly keen to check out the new Byatt myself.
ReplyDeleteWhat jumps out at me is House-Bound.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great stack of books!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a nice little haul of books! I think I have found a rival book hoarder. I didn't think anyone accumulated books as quickly as I do. :)
ReplyDeleteI really have no room to say I'm jealous as I've been accumulating books one way or another, but those are still lovely piles. Those Persephones are especially nice! I'll be curious to see what you think of the Moerk book!
ReplyDeleteWow, what a stack! I am so jealous. I'd love to read the Strachey & Whipple. (just finished the Byatt)
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice pile of books. I am dying to place my first order for Persephone books. I have about five titles that I am waiting somewhat patiently to order. I have to wait a month or so...
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