This little stash are my recent buys:
First edition (USA) hardback of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook from Blue Cypress Books.
Phillipa Stockley's A Factory of Cunning and
Mark Salzman's Lying Awake from the Louisiana Philharmonic Book Sale.
Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish and Keri Hulme's The Bone People from DeVille's Books (for the
bookclub)
Umbra - a NOOCA student publication and
Bill O'Reilly's Who's Looking out for You from
The Bridge House Thrift Store.
Early Classic American Novels from the Friends of the
University of New Orleans Library Sale.
Well, technically not a purchase but a nice present from a friend, Alexandra Johnson's Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal.
And finally,
a blank journal made in Bangladesh from IN Exchange
a fair trade store on the Tulane University Campus.
The journal's cover is made from newspapers woven
together with string and pasted on a hard cardboard.
The rooster is hand drawn and the tacks are securely fastened.
The store also stock leather covered blank journals that have figures etched in (not sure of term) made in India.
6 comments:
What a nice pile of books. I just ordered a few from the Book Depository (two of the new Persephone Classics!). The Atwood is wonderful! And I want to read A Factory of Cunning, too! Enjoy!
Danielle, wink wink. Let me WIN one of the books that you are giving away and I will mail the Factory when I am done.
Just kidding.
Thanks for the heads up on Book Depository. The Persephone books - I can't hold back much longer.
I asked someone who is going to London to bring me back 6 books, but he said he has no room in his luggage.
Bummer.
Yay you got the book :)
I love that little journal you bought. Very unsual.
I've had The Bone People sitting on my shelves for years. I've heard that it's good but emotionally draining. Obviously I haven't been in the mood for something like that in years - ha.ha. Can't wait to read your review on it!
Glad you made it to Europe and survived your move! Major stuff.
Book People, yes, you do need to be in the right mood for it.
I think that the rooster journal will be my dream journal.
You've got a variety pile there, so tempting and wonderful. Meanwhile I'm trying to work through my pile at home, and oh War and Peace! :)
Books can be heavy to carry. I carried 8 books back from Asia and they weighed about 12 lbs, a third of my allowance for one piece of luggage!
Matt- I guess that we are such book lovers, that we don't mind losing room in the suitcase for books.
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