Sunday, January 6, 2013

Holiday Book Haul

Happy (somewhat belated) holidays, everyone!

For review:
Our Man in Iraq by Robert Perisic (First Look)
The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran (publisher)

From Random Buzzers:
Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier

Christmas gifts:
The Packhorseman by Charles M. Hudson
Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa by Charles M. Hudson
Utopia by Ahmed Khaled Towfik
The Year 3000 by Paolo Mantegazza
Three Women by Isabelle de Charriere

Purchased on a book-buying excursion to two of my favorite stores:
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Feed by M.T. Anderson
The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru by Nigel Davies
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn
The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie
Lady Audley's Secret by M.E. Braddon
Corinne, or Italy by Madame de Stael
Egil's Saga by anonymous
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
Supernatural Horror in Literature by H.P. Lovecraft
The Scholars by Wu Ching-Tzu
The Search for the Tassili Frescoes by Henri Lhote
Work and Worship Among the Shakers by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews
Long Before Columbus by Hans Holzer
Early Irish Society by Myles Dillon

3 comments:

  1. Nice book haul! I wouldn't know where to begin with those stacks.
    2 Kids and Tired Books

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  2. So many good books!
    I love Les Liasions Dangereuses, it's one of the least stuffy classic books I have ever read.

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    1. Nice to hear! I've been a classics slump for quite a while now, so maybe this will help break it.

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