Thursday, May 07, 2009

Merry Christmas! Yay! More Books!

We got a package from Amazon yesterday with Krista's name on it. We shook it around for a while and couldn't remember ordering any books. Then KAPOW we remembered that Krista had ordered me a book for Christmas... a book that hadn't been published yet.

But -- it's a book I've been eagerly waiting for by Glen David Gold, the author of Carter Beats the Devil, one of my absolute favorite books of the last few years. I think I've bought three or four copies of it. Anyway, Gold's new book, Sunnyside, just came out and since Krista had ordered it for me it just arrived!

I am really excited to read this book. Excited enough that I think I'm going to save it... I have a couple of busy weeks coming up and then a quick vacation with the family. I think this will be my vacation book! Yeeha!

And, as an added bonus, because Amazon sends things in groups to save on shipping, I also got a new John MacDonald book, Bright Orange for the Shroud. The MacDonald Travis McGee books are always a solid treat.

So, the moral of this story is that books are good. We need more books.

4 comments:

  1. I am compelled to ask, what's the ratio between the number of promising inbound books and the number of these books that actually get consumed within a calendar year? I suspect you keep your ratio pretty low...

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  2. Oooh, new book suggestion. I just put Carter... on hold at the library. Thanks.

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  3. I wanna know where my gluten is. Since when is BHR gluten free? Where's my gluten?

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  4. Ummm...I'm jealous of this post. Instead of visiting with you this weekend, I'll just borrow this book, sit in your living room and read.

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