As you can see, I’m once again very late on posting my Polysyllabic spree posts. :) I haven’t even done May, and I must get caught up on June as well. Oy! Let’s get started.
The Books Purchased stack for May is incredibly large, and (alarmingly) does not include the 25+ books I acquired at BEA. But it’s full of goodies, and that’s all that matters, right?
Books Purchased:
Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros
World War Z by Max Brooks
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
In the Neighborhood by Peter Lovenheim
A Cook’s Tour by Anthony Bourdain
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
The Book of Idle Pleasures by Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright by Jean Nathan
I Know I Am But What Are You? by Samantha Bee
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements by Dwight Garner
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
A Traveler’s History of Ireland by Peter Neville
A Secret Map of Ireland by Rosita Boland
Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors by Bill Bryson
Books Read:
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (library)
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
World War Z by Max Brooks
The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman (re-read)
In the Neighborhood by Peter Lovenheim
Picnic Lightning by Billy Collins
Beautiful additions to your collection! I have heard about Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Kitchen Confidential’. Looking forward to reading your review of his ‘A Cook’s Tour’. ‘Classics for Pleasure’ by Michael Dirda sounds quite fascinating! I am getting tempted to get this book, but I will wait for your review. ‘A Traveler’s History of Ireland’ also sounds wonderful!
Are you going to post a review of ‘Huckleberry Finn’? :)