A quick post to celebrate all the lovely, lovely books that have recently arrived in my glad embrace, including:
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
- Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
- Long May She Reign by Ellen Emerson White
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith (whom I saw speak at the New Yorker Festival Friday night)
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- Eunoia by Christian Bok
- McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell
- Tyrell by Coe Booth
- Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (my book club's next pick)
- Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
AND Katy just read a Patrick O'Brian novel called The Unknown Shore and said it's a marvelous precursor to the Aubrey-Maturins, so I have to get that too. I have no idea where to begin -- or rather, since I've begun many of them, which to continue -- and I love it. Hurrah for book joy!