What did YOU buy today? July 2022

Anybody bought anything in July, yet?
I haven't - no books so far - trying to finally read some from my shelves first. :P

Yesterday I couldn't resist anymore and bought:
Drachen (= dragons, an illustrated bestiary) by Johan Egerkrans, whose work I admire,
Sweet hereafter by Banana Yoshimoto,
The dangers of smoking in bed by Mariana Enriquez,
All the lovers in the night by Mieko Kawakami.

Yesterday I picked up The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. Also, received from a friend Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books you were Supposed to Read.

Wow: ZERO books bought this month, but 4 ARCs brought home. All forthcoming books have a 9/22 pub date.

One work of nonfiction: The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger.

The rest are novels except for one short story collection:
* The Girl from Guernica by Karen Robards (historical fiction)
* Bindle Punk Bruja by Desideria Mesa (historical fantasy)
* Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by various authors for the estate of Agatha Christie

I was in Washington, D.C. earlier this month to see an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art.

I bought the catalog: The woman in white : Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler, as well as another book at the NGA, Kimono couture : the beauty of Chiso

I also stopped at a used bookstore and bought two other books:
Sherbourne Street, a novel by John Cornish, and Donald Keene's memoir, Chronicles of my life : an American in the heart of Japan

Tomorrow, I expect I will acquire more books, as a couple of boxes have arrived from my sisters in anticipation of my birthday. Knowing them, one or both will contain a book or books.

Well, I was right. There were books in those boxes.

The Jazz Age : American style in the 1920s, by Stephen Harrison and others. This is the catalog from an exhibition that was at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt (where I saw it).
I will judge you by your bookshelf, by Grant Snider
Klimt & Fashion, by Christian Brandstätter
Aline Barnsdall's Olive Hill project : Frank Lloyd Wright sketches and drawings, Edmund Teske photographs, by Jeffrey Herr
Front International 2022 : Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art : oh, gods of dust and rainbows

>6 lilithcat: You're lucky: ever since I started working at a bookstore, people stopped giving me books as gifts. I think since '95 I've received 2 books total.

One multi-generational novel ARC, with a 6/22 pub date: The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford.

Yesterday, I went to Preview Day at the Newberry Library Book Fair. Herewith, the haul:

Southern comfort : the Garden District of New Orleans, by S. Frederick Starr
Whistler's Venice, by Alastair Grieve
Netsuke : the Japanese art of miniature carving, by Matthew Welch
Contemporary Japanese bamboo arts, by Robert T. Coffland
The culture of fashion : a new history of fashionable dress, by Christopher Breward
The Turkish embassy letters, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
An armchair traveller's history of Istanbul : city of forgetting and remembering, by Richard Tillinghast
Lettere di cortigiane del Rinascimento, edited by Angelo Romano
Ywain, the knight of the lion, by Chrétien de Troyes
Sabers & suites : the story of Chicago's Ambassador East, by Rick Kogan
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue, by William Tyre
London under : the secret history beneath the streets, by Peter Ackroyd
Tales of Firenzuola, by Agnolo Firenzuolo
Our vanishing landscape, by Eric Sloane
La piramide di fango and La voce del violino by Andrea Camilleri
The Watercress girl and other stories, by H. E. Bates
A counter-blaste to tobacco, by James I of England
The encyclopedia of the dead, by Danilo Kis
Venice Century by Century, by Giovanni Distefano

>8 lilithcat: HAUL is right. Some of those look terribly yummy. I think I have the Eric Sloane, or another by him.

I am finishing the month with an actual purchase of two books:
* The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander (contemporary fiction)
* Bookish People by Susan Coll (also contemporary fiction)