this is what happens when I let my guard down ...

[truepenny]

I buy books. Used bookstore, thank goodness, but a lot of books. I went a little nuts.


Caudwell, Sarah. The Shortest Way to Hades, Thus Was Adonis Murdered (both with the waycool Edward Gorey covers).

Crispin, Edmund. The Moving Toyshop. Introducing Gervase Fen.

Dickinson, Peter. Hindsight, The Old English Peep Show. (That was the selection they had, and I took it.)

du Maurier, Daphne (or should that be Maurier, Daphne du?). Don't Look Now.

Dummett, Michael. The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards. ("Ooh, pretty," said the bookstore guy.)

Ford, John M. The Final Reflection, Growing Up Weightless (to replace my AWOL copy), The Princes of the Air. (See above, re: Dickinson, Peter.)

Lamott, Anne. Traveling Mercies. Battered $5 copy. All I'd pay for it anyway, but I do want to read it.

Langton, Jane. Natural Enemy. Somehow I hadn't made the connection that the Jane Langton who wrote The Diamond in the Window was the same Jane Langton who writes (wrote?) Homer Kelly mysteries. So I'm trying one (signed, with an incredibly cute drawing of a spider, by the author).

LeFaun, J. Sheridan. Wylder's Hand. Because it was there, it was $3, and I need (for writing-related reasons) to increase my familiarity with Victorian and Edwardian horror writers.


Shouldn't have spent the money, but I'm glad I have the books.

Comments

[lcohen]

oooh! sarah caudwell! if you haven't read her books before, you have a treat in store.

that said, i loved thus was adonis murdered while the shortest way to hades was my least fave of the four (which is not to say it was a bad book, mind you). i hope you'll post what you thought after you read them.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/truepenny/13005.html)'s what I said about The Sirens Sang of Murder when I was reading it. Not much more than a shriek of glee, but I don't know that I'm going to have anything more substantive to say. But if I do, rest assured I'll post about it.

I was saying to my husband last night: That's what I do with my LJ. I talk about books. And it makes me insanely happy to have found a forum in which people appreciate and respond to me talking about books ... and talk about what they're reading and get in discussions about it ... It's great. I love it.

[vass]

I admire your new books.

Shouldn't have spent the money, but I'm glad I have the books.

I'd be happy to have that written on my tombstone.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thanks for both comments. You're right. That would make a good epitaph. Plus with the accuracy. *g*

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Hmm, another rec for Caudwell. Must add to list...

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Caudwell is a delight. I'm reading Thus Was Adonis Murdered right now (instead of working on Ch.3), and bemusing my husband with my snorting and giggling. It's all about word choice, timing, and high burlesque. LOVE it.

Ahem. My enthusiasm is intemperate but sincere.