glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Fourth of July Used Books Sale It is 11:44 AM Monday late morning. It is 84 degrees and it is humid outside. Last night we shut up the house and turned on the AC so the house is not a sweat box presently. This morning we were up at 6 o'clock AM and were out of the door at 7:15 AM to attend a Fourth of July Used Books Sale in Grand Rapids. Here is a list of the used books I bought this morning for my library- 'The Occult: A History' by Colin Wilson 'Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait In Letters' Edited by Linda Gray Sexton & Lois Ames 'Of Love And Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions' by Theodor Reik 'Mozart: A Cultural Biography' by Robert W. Gutman 'The Life Of Joseph Conrad' biography by John Batchelor 'Clover: The tragic love story of Glover and Henry Adams and their brilliant life in America's Gilded Age' biography by Otto Friedrich 'Writing Down the Bones: Freeing The Writer Within' by Natalie Goldberg 'Edison' biography by Edmund Morris 'Onward And Upward In The Garden' Katharine S. White Edited And With An Introduction By E. B. White 'Cannibals In Love' A Novel by Mike Roberts 'The Man Made Of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages' By N. Scott Momaday 'The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage And Scandal In The Gilded Age' biography by Myra MacPherson 'Bob Dylan' Photographs by Daniel Kramer 'Ambassador of the Dead' A Novel by Askold Melnyczuk 'Ancient Angkor' Books Guides Michael Freeman & Claude Jacques 'The Missionary And The Libertine: Love and War in East and West' essays by Ian Buruma 'White Fever: A Journey To The Frozen Heart Of Siberia' Travel Memoir by Jacek Hugo-Bader 'City Of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas' European history by Roger Crowley 'Journey Into The Whirlwind' memoir by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg Translated by Paul Stevenson & Max Hayward 'Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas' travel memoir by Gary Geddes Carol also bought some used books but none for herself. So the morning goes by. Not much else to report. It is now 12:11 PM and I need to close to recover from the day. 12:16 p.m. - 2022-07-04 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
||||||