This week's spoils
I went book diving again this weekend, so I thought I’d take the time to share (/brag about, I mean, really) my conquests. Clockwise from the top left:
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss (PB). I’ve already blogged about this one, and indeed I have a copy. But when I really like a book, I always pick up extra copies to thrust upon unsuspecting friends and family members, because one of the greatest pleasures of being widely read is match-making books and their ideal readers.
The Dutch Wife, by Eric McCormack. (HC) This was an amusing and fortuitous find. I was reading Corey Redekop’s Shelf Monkey a couple weeks ago, and the novel’s fugitive protagonist writes letters to a prominent Canadian writer . . . who, embarrassingly, I’d never heard of. And then, it seemed, the bookish fates intervened, and I now have one of his books.
The Red Queen, by Margaret Drabble (PB). I’ve never read anything by this Dame of British letters, and I thought it was time. Plus, I love hist fic, and admittedly, put a lot of faith in M&S books.
The Accidental, by Ali Smith (HC). Another writer I’ve been meaning to get [...]
