September 2021

I arranged to meet my daughter halfway between our homes. The easiest landmark happens to be the Half Price bookstore in Lexington.
Er, um. I was just setting us up.
Left with a pile of beautiful journals as well as
Avant Gardeners
Edmund Dulac’s Rubaiyat $3!
Science Fantasy Correspondent $2
Vas You Ever in Zinzinnati? $5

And then we stopped in a Kids to Kids store, and I found Anno’s USA.

Still on the island, still book buying like crazy...
Today I brought home:
Tess Gerritsen: Choose me,
Julie Clark: The last flight,
Agnes Krup: Sommergäste (Summer guests),
Erskine Childers: The riddle of the sands, That seems to be recommended lit for holiday guests and islanders here, as it is set partly on/around the East Frisian Islands (The island I'm staying on is one of these ;) ).

My second favorite bookstore* re-opened a couple of weeks ago, and I got over there today. Damage done in the "sale" section:

The traveler, the tower, and the worm : the reader as metaphor, by Alberto Manguel
The book of imaginary beings, by Jorge Luis Borges
Chicago's Great Fire : the destruction and resurrection of an iconic American City, by Carl Smith
History of immigrant female students in Chicago public schools, 1900-1950, by Stephanie Nicole Robinson

*Sister store to my very favorite bookstore, which re-opened a couple of months ago.

>3 lilithcat:
Oh, the Borges Book of imaginary beings looks so interesting!

The day before yesterday I paid ny last visit to the little island bookstore for this time - we went back home yesterday...
Brought home:
Samantha M. Bailey: Woman on the edge,
and, as gifts (for different people :p):
111 Gins, die man getrunken haben sollte (111 gins to have tasted) by Jens Dreisbach,
A story for a small bear by Alice B. McGinty and Richard Jones,
Hörnchen und Bär (Squirrel and bear) by Andreas H. Schmachtl.

Not on the island anymore, but book buying is still out of control...
Wanted to shop for a Litsy Halloween Swap and ended up on a buying spree (for myself) in my fave local bookstore:

Lafcadio Hearn and Benjamin Lacombe: Japanische Geister und Naturwesen (Japanese Ghosts and Nature Spirits),
Amy Lloyd: The innocent wife (in German),
Douglas Skelton: Thunder Bay (in German),
Kate Reed Petty: True Story,
Laura Sims: Looker,
Lucy Clarke: The Castaways,
Raffaella Romagnolo: Wie man einen Bestseller schreibt (How to write a bestseller).

I stopped in to two libraries yesterday. Borrowed from one; but the other has a too tempting Friends room. 50 cents to $1.

Came away with
A War of Gifts, which I’ve already read; but it’s worth reading again. I do have an Enderverse shelf. The original short story had a huge impact on me.
New Decorator. I don’t really need the advice, but I do like looking. I’ll probably toss it back afterward.
The West Wing season 2. I didn’t ever have cable, so I mostly knew it by reputation. Enjoyed season 1 so much during the last administration. Ah, this is how it should be done.

Wandered into a library sale and found one I’d been looking for, Mexican Gothic. Also found Revenge by Stephen Fry and The mystery of Mrs. Christie.

>6 2wonderY: The West Wing is one of my favorite shows. You're really in for a treat!

>2 Yuki-Onna: The Riddle of the Sands has been on my list of read someday titles for a long time.

I confess to my buying being a bit out of control, too. Only 1 ARC: The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves (pubbed this month, mystery).

These I bought:
* William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia by William Kashatus (I also own a book William Still wrote; an order)
* The U.S. Constitution and Other Important Documents from the No Fear series (gives you a "plain text" translation; found while helping a customer find a pocket-size version of founding documents in US history)
* Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 by Brenda Wineapple (an order)
* Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America by Christine Leigh Heyrman (found while helping a customer find a book in US history)
* The Heroine with 1001 Faces by Maria Tatar (I'm familiar with Joseph Campbell's title; found this in the new books area -- Pre-Raphaelite art on cover caught my eye)
* The Bondwoman's Narrative: A Novel by Hannah Crafts (an order)

And a book I have on hold that I'll pick up this week: Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee (I just heard it existed, I own his books on plot & dialogue -- as yet unread, like so many others....).

Picked up the McKee book I mentioned in the last message.

Brought home 2 ARCs:
* The French Gift by Kirsty Manning (pub 11/21; multiple time period fiction)
* _Yonder_ by Jabari Asim (pub 1/22; historical fiction)

I bought A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks. About Time by David Rooney

I found a short story collection at a Friends sale A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies. Short stories aren’t normally my thing but the cover was so beautiful I couldn’t pass it by.

These were my last two September purchases:

* Three Cartesian Feminist Treatises by Francois Poullain de la Barre (18th C works, been on my list for years but then the author was mentioned in a recent magazine article, so...)
* The Vanished Days by Susanna Kearsley (historical fiction, she's an autobuy)