Recent Acquisitions

Here is a list of some of the books I have recently acquired, one set through trips to Half Price Books and to Recycled, the other via the gigantic Plano Friends of the Library book sale. This is probably more money than I have spent on books all year; even so, I am proud of my economy.

• Four Dorothy L. Sayers novels: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Five Red Herrings, Murder Must Advertise, and The Nine Tailors ($2 each)
• The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark, a travelogue from the 1930s ($1)
• Two Kazuo Ishiguro novels, the last two of his I haven’t read: A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World ($1 each)
• Katherine by Anya Seton, a historical novel set in the 14th century ($1)
• Pavane by Keith Roberts, an alternate-history steampunk novel ($1)
• World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler, an alternate-history no-electricity novel set in a small town in New York ($2)
• Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi, a short-story collection by a new-to-me-author who has been published in Best American Short Stories ($1)
• Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a novella by the master of the novella ($1)
• Galileo’s Dream by Kim Stanley Robinson, in which Galileo gets kidnapped by someone from the far future ($8)

For a Grand Total of $25, I am now thirteen books richer. That’s at least a month’s worth of reading for less than a dollar a day. Which is what I call a Win.