Book Purchase Update
Managed to get to the secondhand book store that is so conveniently local, warm and friendly. I love that everytime I go in there it seems that there has been some form of product turnaround on the shelves. It means that every now and then I might miss out on something as it goes too quick, but most of the time it means I’m not staring at the same spines on the shelf time after time. I managed to pick up three little gems to keep me quiet and happy, and here they are.
Gil Brewer’s So Rich, So Dead
After reading and absolutely loving The Vengeful Virgin, I picked this up without a moment’s hesitation. I cannot wait to get around to it, though that might take a little while.
Brett Halliday’s A Taste For Violence
This Mike Shayne mystery is a little Dell paperback, just smaller than the others.
Walter B Gibson’s Return of the Shadow
After reading about The Shadow in the back of Brubaker and Phillips’ Incognito, I thought it might be interesting to give him a go. Worthy investment for only a couple of dollar coins.
I also finally spent my birthday book voucher at the real store. That fabled place where once the purchase is made you become the one and only owner of that book for that moment in history. It’s a big moment for me, someone who lives and dies by the hunt and the bargain. It also kills me a little inside to see that a paperback novel can be priced $27.99. I will never know how that makes sense. When I was a kid paperbacks were about twelve or thirteen bucks and a hardcover was always found under thirty. Savages have taken over the pricing industry, surely.
Anyway, after must intense scrutiny I decided on a book I am really keen to read. Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
Being a comic fan this book naturally appeals to me, but so does the fact that it managed to be about comics but also so much more. It won the Pulitzer and it is critically lauded. I cannot wait to get stuck into it, so much so that it will no doubt be my next book, I have already read the first page in line at the supermarket. I just need to finish the current anthology of Lovecraft works. They’re good but the pacing isn’t exactly thrilling, at least so far. But I am enjoying it and will find plenty of time to finish it on this two week holiday which has just begun.
Posted on July 5th, 2009 by ryan
Filed under: books
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