Toady I took a little me time to visit the local used bookstore, Bookmans. I needed a break from the kids and the household chores (today I washed all the couch coushins) and the bookstore seemed like the perfect escape.
Whenever my Amazon cart gets a little too full I check out the library, of course, but then also Bookmans. I don't like the pressure of library books sometimes. I would rather keep the book forever and read at my leisure.
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe (1987)
I'm hoping this is the ultimate 80's period book. I want to be immersed in the excess that I missed out on since I was only a kid.
Harvard Yard - William Martin (2003)
This was an impulse buy. I love Boston and this book promises to combine history, architecture, and libraries in the search for a lost Shakesperean play.
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing (1962)
I recently read that this was one of the 100 best novels of all time and I had never heard of it, so of course it went into my Amazon cart. It seems like something I might like, combining something vaguely about women and mental illness. I could be wrong, but I'll have to read it to find out.
I was disappointed to find that there were no copies of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis or Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.
I headed over to the history section and picked up some awesome biographies. My recent trip to England has me reading up on English history, so:
The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser
The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Queen Victoria by Christopher Hibbert
Will I have tiem to read these this summer? Probably not. I've got about 14 books ahead of these that are in my MUST read pile.
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