Nu-ILB: What books have you purchased lately?

Censors at Work HOw States Shaped Literature by Robert Darnton
book on how state censorshiop in 3 different times and geographical areas shaped what was able to be published . free from library.

From the Gracchae to Nero H.H.Scullard
History of Rome from 133BC to 48AD that used to be a standard history text book. Heard it's quite good. Another freebie from the library

A History of The Franks Gregory of Tours
Medieval history of European people taht gave its name to France etc but had wider catchment earlier. Should be interesting. I like to think I find this stuff really interesting but I think its automatically on my to read pile since i have things I'm already in the middle of . Wish I could read more than one thing ata time, like literally.

Cyberselfish Paulina Borsook
Wired writer looks into hightech. Bought it cheap in a multibuy for 2Eur with teh Gregory of Toursd and a thing on Sugar. Have now seen it is getting middling reviews so maybe should have got the alterntive book I put back Humans by Colin Phillips. oh well.
May have some insight in.

Sugar The Grass That Changed The World Sandija O'Connell
history of the plant that drove the slave trade among other things. I think from ancient times to present day.

50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
summary of several psychological tropes that I thought would be useful. Well it wasa Euro so I thought I'd take the plunge.

a few books from the library.
White Fragility Robin diAngelo
Started this last night and it does seem to be giving some perspective into the lack of perspective involved.

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X kendi
not started this yet but I think the title is a good description, just reading his How To Be An Anti-Racist which I'm finding very rewarding. Another book helping me understand previous experiences.

Lewis Thomas - The Medusa and the Snail
the only one of his that I couldn't find at my library or on scribd. lives of a cell and the youngest science are both great. wish I had found them when I was a teenager.

Tommy Wonder - The Books of Wonder
magic tricks and some of the philosophy behind his performances. continuing my three-year trend of purchasing magic books, reading them, and not practicing or performing any of the tricks.

Jeff VanderMeer - Ambergris trilogy
one huge hardcover book. I bounced hard off of his latest, hummingbird salamander, but I still want to try out some of his older stuff. (I had only read the Southern Reach books previously.)

James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain
Diane Cook - The New Wilderness
Harlan Ellison - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Soji Shimada - Murder in the Crooked House

kindle deals. The last one is released under Pushkin Vertigo, an imprint that releases translated mysteries. I snatch them up whenever they're on sale.

Verso books have had a 40% off sale this month so I grabbed The Invention Of The White Race volume 1 last night. Not sure when it'll get here. Have been meaning to read it for a while. I think it was mentioned on a thread here a few years back.
The 2 volumes are being released in an omnibus edition in October. Hoping that I am not about to find out that July has 50% off since May had 30%. & that's across the publishing house.

Claudius The God Robert Graves
One of the sequels in the Claudius series. I think this is 2nd book. I watched the 70s BBC series a few years ago and have meant to read the books for years. Possibly longer. Now have it so need to actually do so.

Hillbilly Elegy

Chronicles of the Crusades Joinville and Villehardouin
I think I had been reminded that I had wanted to read this a few weeks ago. Possibly surfing through Goodreads.
It was one thing I'd noted to read in the summer of 2003 but I think found out was in the special collection in the University library which limited access.
Anyway 2 chronicles of different crusades by people involved. The whole enterprise kinda sucked on a colonialist front and people weren't even white yet so obviously had even less excuse, like. But I thought this might give insight into the epistemology yah?

1434 Gavin Menzies
I enjoyed 1421 in the late 00ies so. have meant to read this since. Should have realised that it's reputation has it as nearly speculative fiction now. Like a newer less far fetched Von Daniken or something.
Chinese arrive in Europe with their ancient knowledge and trigger the renaissance. Is that a better idea than people fleeing from Constantinople bring knowledge with them. & is the concept of Renaissance now outdated and questionable like I'm hearing the Enlightenment is.
Anyway looking forward to reading about the big ship energy from the Chinese. Cos at least they is non Eurocentric or something.

Our Word Is Our Weapon Subcomandante Insurgente Marco
Zapatista leaders selected writings

The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power.
Memoir of Irish born US cabinet member.

Claudius The God Robert Graves
One of the sequels in the Claudius series. I think this is 2nd book

yeah, I thought there were more. But this goes up to his death.

Guess Claudius, The Ghost never really got off the ground.

could have explored his time in the afterworld or something. surely.

Elliott Kalan and John Hodgman did a podcast about I, Claudius last year. I didn't listen to it.

^sounds like something I would have posted

stoked to have finally found an affordable copy of denton welch's journals (jocelyn brooke version)

Octavia Butler Lillith Brood
I don't seem to coincide with copies of her books in charity shops for some reason. Maybe people grab them as soon as they see them or something. This was the 3 parts of the book series in one omnibus set . Glad i grabbed it cos i'm finding it pretty readable.
Must get more when i get the chance.

THe Mammoth Book Of native Americans.
Looked like this was pretty comprehensive which would be good but it does still have Indians crossing the Bering Strait landbridge which I thought was a while outof date. So hope it is worth it.

Flea Acid For the Children
Thought it might be interesting and i did get it as a part of a 3 books for 2Euro deal in a charity shop

The Written Word Martin Puchner
How Literature shaped history. Well looked interesting and was part of the same deal

An African American and LatinX History of the United States Paul Ortiz
I read his wife's Indigenous book in this Revisioning series a few weeks back so was looking forward to this. may have too many books on the go to get to this too fast now though.

LOvecraft Country Matt Ruff
not seen this around. Bought from same charity shop I got the Octyavia Butler on the previous visit.
Enjoyed teh tv series and heard thaht varies a bit from this.

THe Black Diaspora Ronald Segal
White South African telkls a black history . looked interesting so hoping it is actually good, slightly worried by the white SA bit on picking up the book. But seems he was a Jewish anti apartheid campaigner. Will see what this reads like.

How He Gets Into Her head Don henessy

Nega Mezlekia The God Who Begat A jackal
novel by Ethiopian now living in Canada. Seems to be based ina lot of local folklore and things.

Thomas L Friedman The Lexus and The Olive Tree Understanding Globalization

Ben Okri The Famished Road
Booker prize winning novel by writer I've meant to read for a while.

Green Suede Shoes: An Irish-American Odyssey Larry Kirwan
memoir of Irish American musician who I became familiar with from him backing Copernicus and met when he was leading Black 47

Girls Against God Jenny Hval
feminist book verging on manifesto apparently. got 2 loads of 3 books for 1 Euro => 2 euro = 6 books so found some interesting stuff in a charity shop that I had seen some interesting stuff before. I know this writer's name from somewhere and this look sinteresting

Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy JUdd Apatow
book of interviews which was part of taht deal too

The Great Dune Trilogy Frank Herbert
I know I've read Dune itself not sure about the other 2 here./ I got some Herbert when my uncle died a couple of decades ago I know there was some Dune in there but not sure what.

Toni Morrison Beloved
This was the book i'd seen on a previous visit. Odd layout in the shop with books stood up in rows behind the visible front row might explain why it was still there.
Really need to read some Morrison. Now got 2 to get to.

Richard Wright Black Boy
May have read this before, some years ago. Another book on the black experience from the middle of the 20th century

The Victorian Underworld Kellow Chesney
Looked interesting in a different charity shop.
Overview of the milieu of the criminal underworld during the Victorian era innit.

The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 F.M.L. Thompson
bought this in the same purchase as the other Victorian book. Seems like it could be good and this kind of sociologcal view seems really interesting right now . Not really looked at it much yet I mean stocking up yet again .

Daedalian Depths by Rami Hansenne
Based on Christopher Manson's MAZE but I hear that it is actually solvable. I'm going to put off looking at clues for as long as possible.

> Jenny Hval
> I know this writer's name from somewhere

she's all over 6 music, but i didn't know she wrote books

Went into town so bound to have bought even more
this time

The Irish (& Other Foreigners) Shane Hegarty
Irish book looking at immigration to the country over 10, 000 years. Vikings, Italians and everybody .
Sounded like it might be interestig. Hoping it is more on the decolonisation side of things.

Joan Of Arc The Image of Female Heroism Marina Warner
I saw this i the shop a couple of weeks ago but I thought this was gone last week.
Have read a couple of the writer's books and seen talks tied in with the latest book she put out.
So hope i do have a chance to read this.

MIddle England Jonathan Coe
one of the books in this trotter family saga. I read the ones named after Hatfield and the north lps about 20 years ago I think. Maybe not quite that long ago. I think this i s2018 and the main characte ris much older.

Companero The Life and Death of Che Guevara Jorge Castaneda
biography of the revolutionary hero

Girls Will Be Girls Emer O'Toole
Feminist book on gender identity etc

Deconstruction In A Nutshell A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
Seemed to be an interesting introduction

The Way Home Tales from A Life Without Technology Mark Boyle
I think this is an ex-p[at Brit who lives down country in either Galway or Clare off the grid. I saw him do a talk at the launch of either this or a later book and have meant to get this ever since and his other work.

A Natural History Of the Senses Dianne Ackerman
sensualist look into the senses , history antropology and fun things

The Stubborn Soil William A. Owens
memoir of a Texan survivor of extreme poverty

Stonemouth Iain Banks
a sequel to the Wasp factory I think

A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride

THe Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
Feminist book by Australian author

The haunting Of Hill HOuse Shirley jackson
Have come across films and tv series based on this so thought I'd grab th ebook too.

Dolly My Life and Other Unfinished Business Dolly Parton
memoir of country star

The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
still not read much of the Atwood i was picking up a while back but somehow hadn't got this one

Banksy The Man Behind The Wall Will Ellsworth-Jones
biography of the grafitti artist

Paranormality Why We See What Isn't There Professor RIchard Wiseman
book sceptical of the supernatural taht sees some benefits deriving from the study of the subject

How to DO MORE of Just About Everything
thought I might learn how to do some things i don't yet.

Costume Worldwide
depictions of costume over history I thought it might inspire meto get back to making stuff. May do yet

Cat Breeds of teh World Desmond Morris
Thought it might be good. I known his manwatching and stuff. & knowing cat breeds might be useful at some point

knowing cat breeds might be useful at some point

― Stevolende

Stevo your worldview and your book shopping habits are both really inspiring to me

spent some of yesterday downloading recent purchases, some of which I'd forgotten i'd bought...

summer, ali smith. i enjoyed autumn and have been picking up the other parts when i see them. missing winter.

Germinal, Zola. was cheap and sounds right up my street.

Children of Ruin, the second part of that thing about the spider planet.

troy, Stephen fry. didn't like the chapter i read of his mythos, sounded too much like Stephen fry, so this was a cheap hate-purchase given i'm on an iliad kick lately.

the honjin murders, mentioned here recently and i like the cover.

currently buying at about 3x my reading speed... but it's nice and varied so I'll never be stuck for something to read no matter what mood in in. and those 5 in total were less than half the price of the one physical book i bought this month.

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I've acquired the Repeater Books reissue of Patrick Wright: THE VILLAGE THAT DIED FOR ENGLAND.

The physical scale of Wright's books is remarkable!

My local charity bookshop that benefits the public library has reopened recently. Today I bought:

Vinland, Thomas Pynchon, used hardcover w/ dust jacket, $1.
A Small Town in Germany, John LeCarre, used trade paperback, $1.

Peter Cook A Biography Harry Thompson

Bandit Country The IRA & South Armagh Toby Harnden

Jeanette Winterson Frankisstein

A Mercy Toni Morrison

Even Silence Has An End Ingrid Betancourt

Grrl Gurl Gworl Guhl Kenya Hunt

THe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon

Malice in Blunderland Aubrey Malone
I think this is about Holllywood gossip. Seems to be too new to even turn up on goodreads etc. Cant even get a read for it on Google.
Found it for a Euro in a charity shop so thought it would be worth grabbing. Not really had a chance to look at it yet.

Larry Kirwan The Bronx
Irish American musician memoir about his life during the 80s. So far he's been ripped off before getting on the plane out of Ireland.
I think I mainly know him as the main backing musician to Copernicus though I may have something by his band Black 47 somewhere.
First chapter seemed promising. I got his Green Suede Shoes from a different charity shop recently too but haven't got into it yet.
THink I will be reading this soon but do have a lot of things already on the go.

Once Upon A Time In Aparanta Sudeep Chakravarti,
This looked like it could be interesting. I wanted to read as much non European stuff as possible was my excuse to myself for buying things when I'm too broke to be doing so. May catych up with me later. may turn out to be the best thing I've read in ages. One takes the gamble somethimes. I dunno.

Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess Alison Weir
Free book from teh library. They have a section of books taht can be taken. This looked like it ould be pretty interesting th epiecing together of a medieval woman's life by a current female historian.
So hope i do have the time to get to this.

Rockin' the Bronx was the Larry Kirwan title

Dulwich Park Festival: 50p for a tiny hardback of Synge: 4 plays + THE ARAN ISLANDS.

I wanted to have THE ARAN ISLANDS so this is a find.

If that Synge is the Oxford World Classics pocket edition, I have owned a copy of it since 1978. Yes, it is one sweet little book!

Adventures in The Skin Trade Dylan Thomas
hardback copy of anthology of pieces not previously published in Book form. I thought i might be interesting but not read much of it so far.
Now seeing reviews of it taht say that it is opaque or cloudy or something. Like its well written but the reviewer can't make sense of what's being said., I dunno, is that bad reading ? Will explore further. I'm not that familiar with Dylan Thomas, do know some of his biography but not much of his work. Still looked interesting and may have me investigating him further.

Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles Richard Dowden
a look at contemporary Africa from the late 00ies.
Not familiar wit the book. It looked interesting as i looked at the shelves of a charity shop and had Africa in the title.
Hope its not got an overly white gaze.

as some reviews of
The Lost Kingdoms of Africa Jeffrey Tayler
have suggested.
Another travelogue around Africa by a white Author. Looked interesting for 1.50Eur and i hadn't checked reviews til i got it home.
Well it will either be read and possibly found wanting or found to have some merit.

Just Ignore Him Alan Davies
memoir by the TV personality. I have liked him on QI and he comes from an area of London I was somewhat familiar with since my mother taught around there at one point as i grew up. have wanted to know a bit more about hsi relationship to the place since finding out he was from there. Just hope there is some of that here.
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Went to a charity shop for the first time in ages and found a hardcover of John McPhee's Annals of the Former World. $6.

Just a bunch of gifts and Oxfam finds (* = already read, is good to have a copy):

J. Rodolfo Wilcock - The Temple of Iconoclasts
The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson*
Driss Chaibi - The Simple Past
Natalia Ginzburg - Family and Borghesia
Gerald Murnane - Tamarisk Row
Mario Levrero - The Luminous Novel
Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
Nammalvar - Tiruvaymoli (Endless Song)
Shakespeare - Anthony and Cleopatra
Jocelyn Brooke - The Image of a Drawn Sword*

Here Comes Everybody James Fearnley
POgues accordionist's memoirs of the time he spent in the band. From auditioning for guitar in the Nipple Erectors to leaving a whilie after Shane had been fired. I found it quite compelling. Wound up being the book i read almost immediately after buying it which is like 2 weeks ago.
I'm not sure to what extent I was afmiliar with the history of the band. I didn't take the opportunity to see them in their early days which I should have done. May have seen them at Brockwell Park if at all. I did buy records from Shane in Rocks Off , met him at a Nick Cave gig a while later and even got to armwrestle him backstage at the Brixton Rollercoaster gig for which he gave me £10 to buy a drink after i missed the free bar.
Sorry to hear about quite what a state and liability he was to work with. He was quite a decent songwriter at one point.
Also interesting to hear about the ratio of Irish players in the band which I had assumed were mainly 2nd generation Irish Uk immigrant and seems to b efar less so.
Great book anyway I thought. I know i saw this around for ages in sales in HMV and FOPP and thingsbut don't think I had teh urge to buy it until I found it in a local charity shop.

Secrets of the Press ed by Stephen Glover
Allstar cast of newspaper journalists give some insight into how things are done within the press of the turn of the millennium and a couple of decades before. I've read a couple of the essays and found them pretty interesting. Good to get a picture of how the world works or is it more worked. At least at one time. I do like things like this.

The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies Deborah Frances-White
THe book related to a podcast I listen to frequently. I've been meaning to pick up a copy for a while but hadn't seen it around physically. Then managed to see 2 copies in different shops in one week. THis was the cheaper of teh 2 and does seem to be reasonably new.
It starts with a history/overview of feminism and the goes into further exploration.

Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians James Welch
an attempt to look at the massacre that lead to the death of Custer from an Indian perspective and then look into the consequent history of the tribes involved.
James Welch was a Native American author so his perspective should be interesting. So far I've read the introduction and look forward to the rest of the book. He is joined in writing this by the film maker Paul Sekler who made acouple of films on the subject himself.

Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology Francis Frascina (Editor),
Charles Harrison (Editor)
An Open University related text book including a number of essays and articles on the subject. It came out in the 90s. Looks interesting

Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Jeff Guinn
apparently the best researched book on the late 60s figure. I have read afew books on him and heard his solo lp.
So this looked like an interesting buy in a charity shop yesterday.
May take a while to get around to reading.

Also got hold of Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities from the library
I know i saw a documentary on the writer a while back & probably at least one webinar.
Looks interesting, hopefully give me even more background on a series of Town planning talks i was following last year and will probably continue interest in if webinars continue online. I think this is an interesting perspective anyway and may be one that has been built on since its early 60s initial publication.

The Bang bang Club Greg marinovich & Joao Silva
Snapshopts from a hidden war
Talking about the township war in South Africa and some young photographers who covered it.

The Life Changing Magic Of Tidying Marie Kindo
a mouse eaten copy of the popular book on tidying up from a few years ago. So maybe doesn't automatically work. Well I'm sure i can lose i into a pile somewhere. THough maybe would do some good to read and learn.

Everyt6hing Is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer.
a story about a man of teh same name as the author turning up in the Ukraine looking for the man who saved hjis father accompanied by a bad translator. sounds interestying.

William Faulkner LIght iN August
cos it was Faulkner, not sure what its about

Maark Little The New America
I thought i recognised the cover from something from last year. Its earlier though

What Ei9nstein Told His Cook 2 Robert L Wolke
Kitchen science book, looked interesting.

The Rage of a Privileged Class Ellis Cose
book on how the m0re privileged classes of the black population are effected by institutional racism and similar

Black Hole; Green Card Fintan O'Toole
book by Irish thinker on changes in Ireland. Earlier than I thought since its from 94.

Modern Nature Derek jarman
Memoir and book on building a garden after the director discovered he was HIV positive. Looked very interesting.

A Different Drummer William Melvin Kelley
book by undersung black author

The Chestnut Man Soren Svestrup
started watching the tv version of this . Story about a Danish woman detective looking into a serial killer who is leaving a folk doll figure as a signature at his murders.

The Grail Tradition John matthews
thought I would get this and it would give me a decent outline of what had been believed cos I thought the tradition wasinteresting. apparently it gives few citations as to where the info came from and also interweaves everything with new age meditation practises. Still it was cheap and if it does give taht tradition it should be good.

Biased Jennifer Eberhardt
Looking into what creates biases etc

This is Grime Hattie Collins & Olivia Rose
Oral history of recent music genre. Nice find for a couple of Euro

Fashionopolis The Price of Fast Fashion & The Future of Clothes Dana Thomas
book on fast fashion etc . I have some interest in why iit is so bad so this might give me an even more concrete picture of the details.

White Fragility Robin Di Angelo
book I read recently in a library loan version and hoped a cheap copy might turn up in the shop I found this in afte rfinding Ibram X Kendi's How to be an anti-racist there a few months back. THis was even better today I had been in to my dentist which is a few doors down after being in the shop once. For some reason I went back in afterwards to see if they put any more titles out. Not sure if thsi had been put out in the timme I wa sin the dentists or had just missed it on the previous look.

John Fowles The Collector
I read acouple fo his before i think. Remember having him reccomended decades ago and still not picked up on him much. But wanted to pick up something wityh White Fragility.

previous trip was
Why I'm No Longer Talking TO white People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge
which I'd read as a library loan item about 3 week s ago. But this is a nice looking copy & I did want a copy of my own.
So 1Eur is nice

Climate Justice Mary Robinson
introductory book on the subject

MotherFocloir Dispatches From A Not So Dead Language Darach O Seaghdha
Fun with Irish language etc

THe Book OfThe Thousandand One Nights Richard Burton
1950s edition of the Victyorian adventurer's translation compiled at 370 pages from a longer work.
I'm not sure who thsi is for. THought it might be a children's work but illustrations have titls in them and i think there may be more sex in this version than the bowdlerised later popular versions. Not read it yet.

For my birthday yesterday I received five books, all of which are non-fic and four of which are somewhat obscure titles purchased at a charity bookstore for a couple of bucks. My wife gave up on selecting books for me at least two decades ago, so I bought all five books and gave them to her to keep until my birthday.

The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia, is the least obscure book on the list and cover his thoughts regarding the assassination of the Italian PM.

Treason by the Book, Jonathan Spence, about an 18th century Chinese conspiracy.

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Richard Wrangham, much speculative paleo-anthropology theorizing about fire, food and cooking in human origins.

The Disappearing Spoon, Sam Kean, looks to be a bunch of entertaining stories all loosely connected to the periodic table of elements.

The Age of Entanglement, Louisa Gilder, recounts the quantum theory of quantum entanglement, which is a truly spooky phenomenon.

The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters 1100-1500, edited by Catherine Moriarty.

There have been at least another 20 titles I've acquired since the last time I posted to this thread, but I've been too lazy to post to ILB about them, until I've read them and can post in the WAYR threads. Stevolende has been doing heroic work keeping this thread current. Much appreciated.

I got a copy of John Berger's Pig Earth second-hand because I liked Ways of Seeing and The Red Tenda of Bologna. Not sure if I'll read all of it or just the "three lives of lucie cabrol" chapters which seems to be the part people like.

The thread Literary treats - recommend great reads, combined with the NYRB Flash sale this weekend just lead me to order:

Eve's Hollywood, Eve Babitz
The Long Ships, Frans G. Bengtsson
To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia
Black Wings Has My Angel , Elliot Chaze

Of these four I've already read To Each His Own, but I wanted a copy for my personal library (and I recommend it). I made a similar purchase of four interesting-looking titles from NYRB during last year's Flash Sale and didn't regret it.

Sophie Colline - Who is Mary Sue?
Baudelaire - Intimate Journals
Domenico Starnone - Ties
Aubrey - Brief Lives
Johann Grimmelhausen - Simplicissimus
Antonio Lobo Antunes - Act of the Dammed

*Collins

Johann Grimmelhausen - Simplicissimus

a+ (which translation, out of interest?)

Mike Mitchell.

got into the habit of buying e-copies of books i already own when i see them on sale just because i fancy re-reading them and prefer the kobo. probably 4 or 5 a month. do androids dream... today, two Gibsons, 2001, slaughterhouse 5... at least it's not contributing to my space problem...

I want to do the opposite, have copies on shelves of ones I've only read on the kobo. No good bookshops round here unfortunately, but I did today pick up a Penelope Fitzgerald in Oxfam. (The Gate of Angels which I haven't actually read yet, was hoping for The Blue Flower.)

i do have a complete set of penguin classics Dickens that I've only read the Project Gutenberg versions of but i know that's an extravagance. the intros were informative at least (although you can often read the intro via Amazon's look-inside feature)

have just noticed ocr errors in my new digital copy of The Accidental Tourist. "Sony!" offered as an apology.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, by John Koenig. Seems like it is some kind of bestseller now, so expecting some sort of ILBacklash.

Remembering How We Stood John Ryan
book on the literary bohemian scene in Dublin in the mid 20th century. pen portraits of several writers from teh time. Should be interesting.

Warlock Oakley Hall
1950s Western reflecting the political feelings of the time. Fear of McCarthy and so on.
I think I know the name from somewhere was it filmed. Seemed interesting for a euro anyway.

City of Bohane Kevin Barry
dystopian sci fi novel by local author. I have his Beatlebone around somewhere too , maybe other stuff.
I bump into him t openings and things so think I need to read him.
Plus i heard he's really good.

Camera Lucida Roland Barthes
Philosopher's views on photography. Apparently his final book.

THree Novels of Old New York Edith Wharton
I think I may have picked up a copy of teh Age of Innocence after seeing the mid 90s film .
& sill haven't read it. But thought i might be tempted now.
Not like I've actually bought another stack of books since the olast things i added to this list and neglected to add tehm here or anything. Or amybe it is exactly like taht.

plus new book out of teh library
Ain't I A Woman bell hooks
Been meaning to read her fro a while and never see them in charity shops which I hope will change.
She was somebody who was recommended during the recent TULCA arts festival and I had this ordered as an interlibrary loan before that but seems like copies of this are disappearing and still listed within the system.