Monday, July 6, 2009

Mailbox Monday

Last week was a busy book week, making for a long Mailbox Monday post.
Two came in the mail: 

The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich (a novel set in Ireland that sounds really, really good -- I am excited about this one).

A Century of November by W. D. Wetherell (they are making this into a movie and I want to read it before I see it).

  

Also, I celebrated the spirit of Independence Day (and Friday off work) with a shopping spree at a couple of Portland's independent book stores, Second Glance Books (also on facebook, here) and Broadway Books. I went in to use the gift certificates I won by participating in Reading Local's monthly contest, but ended up spending more than my contest winnings -- that's the whole point, right? From Broadway Books, I got: Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York by Adam Gopnik (I loved his Paris to the Moon book)

   


   


   


 


At Second Glance Books, I found many books on my Must Read lists and became instant best book buddies with Rachelle, the friendliest book seller in town: 

The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary (on Anthony Burgess's list of favorites)

   

Small Island by Andrea Levy (winner of the Orange Prize and the Costa Book of the Year award)  

Thinks . . . by David Lodge

 

Home Truths by David Lodge

   

 

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald 

   

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Booker Prize winner and on Erica Jong's list)

 

Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss (on my Oregon Books list) 


 

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien (on Burgess's list and the All-TIME Top 100 list)

 

  Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee (National Book Critics Circle award winner)

 

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (because I loved his National Book Critics Circle award winner, Motherless Brooklyn)



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