After all my talk about decluttering, I acquired four new books today. Honestly, I couldn't help it. I was visiting my brother for Thanksgiving and he took me to the BEST bookstore. You know the kind. Books are stacked floor to ceiling in rooms loosely labelled "fiction", "mystery", "geography", etc. and you can barely walk through the piles of yet to be sorted volumes. How could I resist digging through them?I found Rummer Godden's Kingfishers Catch Fire ($2 hardcover), D.E. Stevenson's Gerald and Elizabeth ($2 hardcover), Leslie Charteris' The Saint Plays with Fire ($2 hardcover) and hardcover copies of the first two Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy Sayers.
Charteris wrote detective novels in the forties and although he's not my normal cup of tea, I enjoy his subtle wit.
3 comments:
I rejoice with you, and refuse to feel sad at all, at your bringing new friends into the house. It's hospitality if nothing else!
Oh, enjoy the Rumer Godden - I've been trying to order it and it seems to be out of print. Please review it.
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It's so delightful to find worthy books, isn't it? D.E. Stevenson has been on my radar all year, but I've not read anything yet.
I'm waiting for reviews!
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