Category: Acqusitions
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Sean’s Week in Review
The Week In Review In a quixotic attempt to write more and reinvigorate this blog, I present to you the new feature, the week in the review wherein I note books acquired, work done, and posts written. Acquisitions: On Writing Well: 30th Anniversary Edition, William Zinsser (amazon) Hell on Two Wheels: An Astoning Story of…
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Acquisitions: 3-8-2011
Lent is almost upon us, and this year I’m going to go without acquiring any books for 40 days. No laughter from the peanut gallery: I’ve done this before, so I know it’s possible. One consequence, though, is that I go on one final book-buying splurge before the restraint, sort of a bibliophile’s Mardi Gras…
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Acquisitions Week of 3/6/2011
Well my local shark pit of frenzied, desperate, deal-seeking bibliophiles (aka the soon to close Wall Street Borders) finally dropped the prices to 25-40% off. Now we’re talking. I look forward to when they drop to 35% off and I find myself buying slightly stained romance novels. David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de…
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Acquisitions for early-March
None of the Borders in my state or the one to its west are going out of business, so unlike the vultures Sean and Charm, I have not been picking at their corpse for new books. I have gone online and picked up some books I need to go through for some background research. The…
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Acqusitions for the Week of 2.27.2011
Unlike Charm, I haven’t found anything worth getting in the the Wall Street Borders, which is closing. Perhaps illustrating the efficient market hypothesis, it is already mostly picked over. I might pick up some trashy paperbacks when they drop the prices a little further. Just two this week from my local used bookstore. Frankenstein Unbound,…
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Acquisitions for the week of 2/27/11
Last week, I said no more new books, at least for a while. What a dismal failure. The continued death spiral of four nearby Borders is simply too tempting to a bargain-loving book jockey like myself. Below is this week’s intake. Antwerp, Roberto Bolañ0 (translated by Natasha Wimmer). New York: New Directions, 2010. Picked up…
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Acquisitions: Week of 2-20-11
I feel like this is some kind of Tweet Your Weight-esque exercise in public shaming, because the last two weeks make it look like I do nothing except buy books that I will never be able to read. This week, though, there were special circumstances: an order from a month ago showed up on my…
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Acqusitions Week of 2.20.2011
Death in a City of Mystics (Prime Crime Mysteries), Janice Steinberg, Berkley (1998) – Found on the street. Seriously. Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible, Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press (2009) – Amazon. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, NYU (2003) – Amazon…
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Acquisitions Week of 2/13/2011
V. Charm is adding to his holding a lot faster than I am. My only acquisition this week is: Israel Drazin, Maimonides: Reason Above All, Geffen, New York (2010) Received as a review copy from the publisher. – Seanv2
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Acquisitions, week of 2/7
I was belatedly celebrating some overtime this week, but that’s still no excuse. The piles of unread books lining my garret climb ever higher. Still, here are the books I acquired this week. W. Branch Johnson, Folktales of Normandy. The Whitefriars Press, London (1929). I got this at a used bookstore in the college town…
Milo and the Calf 