Sunday, September 07, 2014

September Plan Smashed

For a short week (no mail delivery on Monday, Labor Day) I ended up with a tall stack.
It started with my Tuesday trip to a meeting. Why, oh why, did we ever choose to meet in a library?
Well I resisted browsing the new book shelf, but right by the exit there was this rack of discards. At 25 cents each how could I walk on by?  (Dates in parentheses are dates rec'd, not publication dates.)

Community College used books:   (Sep 02)
The Story of Lucy Gault; William Trevor
Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories; Frank Bill (love the cover)
The New York Trilogy; Paul Auster 
But when I got home there was mail...
and...there was more mail on Wednesday & Friday...

From LibaryThing win(Sep 02)
Monastery; Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (Translation)    
The Polish Boxer; Eduardo Halfon, Thomas Bunstead (Translation)

(Monastary was the actual win, publisher tossed in the other as an extra.) 

Shelf Awareness wins:
Ajax Penumbra 1969; Robin Sloan     (Sep 02)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore; Robin Sloan     (Sep 02)
How To Be a Good Wife; Emma Chapman     (Sep 03) 

From Subscriptions:   
An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell; Deborah Levy (Sep 03) And Other Stories
Baboon; Naja Marie Aidt, Denise Newman (Translation)     (Sep 05) Two Lines Press
The Last Days of My Mother; Solvi Bjorn Sigurdsson; Helga Soffia Einarsdottir (Translator);  (Sep 05)  Open Letter   
So I said I'd read some of my backlog...and they sent me more. But I love these guys. And these covers!
From Blog wins:  
After I Do; Taylor Jenkins Reid    (Sep 03)
Survival Colony Nine; Joshua David Bellin     (Sep 05)

Then there was an Email from the library so I went there to pick up a hold (The Bone Clocks). I just took a glance at the new book shelf--I should have known better.
Public Library (Sep 05): 
The Hidden Child (Patrik Hedström, #5); Läckberg, Camilla
All Our Names; Mengestu, Dinaw
Evergreen; Rasmussen, Rebecca 
The Bone Clocks; Mitchell, David
The Pearl that Broke Its Shell; Hashimi, Nadia
Land of Love and Drowning; Yanique, Tiphanie

There is also another hold "in transit" which may mean "in limbo" since it's had that status for several days.

6 comments:

  1. cool! Sloan's book is awesome, loved it!

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  2. I'll get to it someday. The Bone Clocks has priority since it can't be renewed.

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  3. I love the cover of the Frank Bill, too. Irresistible! I'll be interested to hear how you find The Polish Boxer (if you have a chance to get to it) - I've heard good things about it, but I'm struggling to recall the source. Enjoy your reading..

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  4. I'm eager to get to both the Halfon titles. The Bone Clocks is a bit of a slog. One of those books I can put down. At page 50 I said to my daughter, "I'm not liking this book." But I stayed with it. Now at page 100 I'm liking it a little better, but all those other books are waiting...

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  5. I've got tickets for a David Mitchell event at the beginning of November so I'll be breaking my 'no-hardbacks' purchasing rule to buy a copy of The Bone Clocks while I'm there. What did you think of it in the end?

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  6. Uh,er, I gave it only two stars on Goodreads. That may be harsh, but I had a tough time finishing it. When I returned it the librarian told me she really liked it.

    I just read Traveler of the Century. Loved it! The same librarian hated it.

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