Book Hauls!

I should finish my re-read of the Gaumt's Ghosts series this week and i'm not quite ready to leave that world and have just bought the ebooks of Double Eagle, Titanicus and The Brotherhood of the Snake all by Dan Abnett.
 
The local library let my better half go into the "employees only" area to search through a large number of cardboard boxes of donated books. Among several items, purchased for a twenty dollar donation, was volume two of an old account of the Yucatan. Both of us went back to do some more searching (they must have judged us to be respectable book lovers to let us dig around in the boxes) and found volume one. My better half got some more stuff (another twenty dollar donation, which was less than one dollar per book) and I got some stuff.

All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) by William Gibson. Novel, third of a trilogy. I haven't read the first two. Oh, well.

The Rising Gorge (1961) by S. J. Perelman. Collection of humorous pieces.

The Best of S. J. Perelman (1947). More of the same. My copies of these two are reprints.

Four Faultless Felons (1930) by G. K. Chesterton. Linked stories. My copy is a reprint, of course.

The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001). Big volume brings together the contents of five collections.

Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2002). Very similar in size and appearance to the above, so obviously a companion volume.
 
I do like some Perelman on occasion.

Recently Barnes & Noble had a 50% off sale on hardcovers, that combined with some earned credits lead me to indulge myself:

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter Beagle
The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books ed. by Johnny Mains
America Fantastica: A Novel by Tim O'Brien

Now all I have to do is read 'em. I'll probably pick off the first two after I finish what I'm reading now.
 
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Giles yawns, but I bet there’s not a dull page in it. My book purchase for this month.
 
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JunkMonkey said:
(what is a 'lighter novelist'?)
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Until fairly recently, women novelists haven't been highly regarded as "serious" writers in the way male writers were. Austen, the Brontes, Woolf, Wharton, Cather, and a few others were exceptions to the (unwritten) rule. I expect Baldwin's work was regarded as commercial because it had readers and romance, and, you know, if it's commercial, it can't be serious literary work. Unless you were Hemingway. Or Steinbeck. Or Updike. Or Mailer. Or ... As much as we now regard Shirley Jackson as a fine novelist, she wasn't taken as seriously as her male contemporaries, in part because she put food on the table with her memoirs as a mother and home-owner.

I think that perception has mostly changed, but District Nurse was published in 1932, when the publishing world was male dominated, as were colleges, as were the outlets for book reviews/criticism, etc.
 
How typical. I go on holiday and i get so many pre-orders come at once. My copies of The Gaunts Ghosts hardback reprints continues with Traitor General, Only In Death, His Last Command and Only In Death as well as the spin off release of Inteceptor City. It would appear that a porch pirate took my copy of Double Eagle. Ba!!! Not too sure if i want to pay the price on the secondary market.

I also took delivery of Alexander Freed's Star Wars novel Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear.
 
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Y Dydd Olaf (1976) Owain Owain

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I have been trying to track down a copy of this book for years. 1970s Welsh Language sf is a bit niche, and does not come up very often on eBay etc. A friend was clearing her late aunt’s library and asked if I wanted anything before the books went to a charity shop. Spotted this. My son took away boxes of Welsh poetry- his tastes are more highbrow than mine.

Notable as the subject of an acclaimed Welsh electro pop album from a few years back.
 
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