What did YOU buy today? October 2022

From Daedalus books A Child of the Century and Images of a Grand Tour.

It's been quite the month!

The first one I bought was First, catch : study of a spring meal, by Thom Eagle.

And then I went to a three-day book sale - every day. Herewith the haul:

Animalphabet, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Civic ritual in Renaissance Venice, by Edward Muir
All Souls' Night, by Hugh Walpole
The bookseller of Kabul, by Åsne Seierstad
Ladies in the sun : the memsahibs' India, 1790-1860, by J. K. Stanford
Frank Lloyd Wright's Seth Peterson Cottage: Rescuing a Lost Masterwork, by John Eifler
To the Honourable Miss S_ : and other stories, by Ret Marut
A far cry from Kensington, by Muriel Spark
The Sect of Angels, by Andrea Camilleri
Voices in the evening, by Natalia Ginzburg
English hours, by Henry James
The Aspern Papers, by Henry James
Jeeves and Friends, by P.G. Wodehouse
Rodinsky's room, by Rachel Lichtenstein
Best Martin Hewitt detective stories, by Arthur Morrison
A coat of varnish, by C.P. Snow
The high window, by Raymond Chandler
Nicholas, by René Goscinny
The Princess of Mantua, by Marie Ferranti
The Lion in the Gateway, by Mary Renault
Concerto to the Memory of an Angel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Made a deposit at a little free library and picked up Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther. Then received from Bookmooch The Miniaturist.

Could not resist an ARC today: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo (pub date 1/23).

Another "ARC" (it's a hardcover & I guess it just came out this month) today: Strike the Zither by Joan He. It's historical fantasy based on a classic of Chinese lit. I read her YA novel The Ones We're Meant To Find & enjoyed it muchly.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, because I could have sworn I had a copy but alas, I do not;

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky for the hubby.

Made this purchase as a first time user of The Book Shop, via the online co-op thingy they participate in with Bookshop-dot-com. Led there from this very site. Looking forward to seeing the quality of the books - I prefer to buy in person, but I'm impatient to get the Dickens novel so thought I'd give them a try. :)

>6 terriks: Tchaikovsky's on my radar. His SF sounds interesting. Someday.

I came SO close to making it through the month without buying a book. Then I was showing a brand new bookseller how to update a display...

Saw and bought Looking for Trouble: The Classic Memoir of a Trailblazing War Correspondent by Virginia Cowles.