Books Brought Home January/February, 2021

Happy New Year!

Not One of Us by Debbie Herbert
Water Memory by Daniel Pyne

Happy New Year!

I had to pick up a new planner from the bookstore, and I accidentally I also got:

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Where Oblivion Lives by T. Frohock

I had some gift cards to my local independent bookstore, so this week I got:

From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars by a variety of authors
The World Doesn't Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

And I got my next book club book from Amazon:
Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

Good book mail week!

...I may have had a bit of a book-buying spree this month with my (pretty tiny, but still, non-zero!) 2020 bonus 😅
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera by Candace Fleming
Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
Dictionary of the Khazars (male edition) by Milorad Pavić
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

I found out The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah is going to be a movie this year, so I ordered it when I found it for a steal.

On Monday I ordered Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther Dr. King Jr. after seeing a post that suggested we read everything he wrote instead of just his quotes. Challenge accepted!

Waiting on my reader this morning, The Mask Falling by Samantha Shannon.

The Mystery of the Missing Diamonds by T E Kinsey

The Stories of John Cheever
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
South Riding by Winnifred Holtby
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Woman Last Seen in her Thirties by Camille Pagan

I just got The Butterfly Lampshade by Aimee Bender for my book club.

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler

This "not buying books" thing is absolutely not happening. It needs to.

For my e-reader: the first seven Val McDermid novels on a particular character curve came as one package, so I bought that. And The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe.

Physical books:
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
I Know why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat

I just got Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid with a Target gift card I got from my niece for Christmas.

I had Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston on a list of books I want to read in 2021, so when I saw it for $7 on Amazon...you know the rest.

More books. Must stop.

The Shadow Girls by Henning Mankell
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker

Home by Marilynne Robinson looking forward to a reread.

The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham

Shadow of Night and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

New thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/330329

One last book splurge for February before we move to the new thread, which I'm hoping I won't post on!

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde
Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower VI) by Stephen King
The Scent Keeper by Erica Bauermeister
Civil Wars by June Jordan
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition by Paulo Freire (purchased by request by my union for my Anti-Racist Teacher group)