What did YOU buy today? July 2021

Bought the updated, paperback version of John Dean & Bob Altemeyer's Authoritarian Nightmare: The Ongoing Threat of Trump's Followers

Original was Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers and has been updated to include information about Trump's election results lie and the domestic terrorist attack on the capitol.

>1 ReneeMarie:
'information about Trump's election results lie and the domestic terrorist attack on the capitol.'

Thank god someone is finally naming it for what it was: a domestic terrorist attack!
They are right-wing terrorists and not some kind of libertarian superheroes.

On July 8, I grabbed a psychological thriller from the bargain section: Nichts wird dir bleiben = You'll have nothing left by Christian Kraus, a German author I hadn't heard about before.
But he's a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, too, and I tend to enjoy most psychological thrillers written by professionals...

Today, I went to my fave local bookstore (to reward myself for being brave and going to the dentist check-up 😅)
and found and bought another book by Christian Kraus there: Tief wirst du schlafen = You'll sleep deeply
as well as Peter Stamm's Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt = The gentle indifference of the world.

>1 ReneeMarie: There's a new Altemeyer? Thank you for letting me know. I was absolutely fascinated by The Authoritarians in college.

>2 Yuki-Onna:
>4 Watry:
Another couple of recent books I'm interested in are Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael Wolff, and Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael C. Bender.

I took home two ARCs recently:
* _Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump_ by Jennifer Rubin (pub date 9/21)
* _The Stolen Lady_ by Laura Morelli (pub date 9/21; historical fiction set during WWII and the Italian Renaissance)

And I bought three books:
* _Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930_ by Kathleen Ernst (title is a bit deceptive: the poems were written in the present day, imagining the lives of immigrant women)
* Someone to Cherish by Mary Balogh (historical romance)
* West End Earl by Bethany Bennett (historical romance bought because a review compared her writing to Georgette Heyer, and in spite of the title that takes off on a Pet Shop Boys song -- as much as I enjoy PSB, I don't like cutesy titles that take off on modern pop cultlure)

Another purchase: Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman. It's historical fiction set in Hawaii during WWII.

Cruised the friends of the library sale and came away with The Only Woman in the Room, Thomas Jefferson’s Creme Brulee, Wilderness and Razor Wire and The Little French Bistro.

Bought one book: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig & Phil Rucker.

And brought home one ARC: Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed To Survive by Lucy Adlington (pub 7/21; I don't think we have many nonfiction readers among our booksellers, but if I can find another --probabaly female because of the cover and because I'm not sure how many men will want to read about sewing -- who likes history I might pass it on)

Arrrgh: an ARC of Radar Girls showed up after I already bought and read mine. I passed it to a coworker to make sure someone took it home.

Bought two books I had ordered:
* The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett (sociology, shows our movement away from our civic responsibilities)
* Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories by Christopher Booker

Also bought 5 classic movies, in the Criterion Collection versions since they were on sale:
* Bringing Up Baby
* His Girl Friday
* The Philadelphia Story
* My Man Godfrey
* Sullivan's Travels

This used to say "3 classic movies." And before the end of the day Sunday it might say "6 classic movies." Maybe. I got more tax refund this week.

>9 ReneeMarie: 🤣