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| Foggy start to the day (5:30am) |
Already it's been a weird, mad, insane month. The weather is absurdly hot for November where I live. It's already been up to 35°c (95°f), which is about 7 degrees above average, and so hot and dry! At the moment it's overcast, and yet I'm sitting at the computer with the window open and a desk fan on - and yet when I woke up this morning there was fog everywhere! Hoping for thunderstorms to try and relieve some of this heat.
Then, to add insult to injury (so to speak), I awaited the results of the US Election. That was the biggest load of crap! I can't believe that they would elect a completely unqualified individual, who not only had the backing of the KKK (wtf!), but also has a hate-on for minorities, women, immigrants (seriously, doesn't he realize that his ancestors were immigrants once?!), and anyone in the LGBTQ community. He also sees nothing wrong with assaulting women as he's rich and powerful and that makes it ok. And this is the president America would rather have than a qualified and educated woman.
On to a different topic as that just makes me mad/sick when I think about it.
Okay, now on the book front it's been a much more exciting month. I have once again given in to temptation and bought waaaay too many books online. I've already received a chunk of them, but there are still 16 books I'm waiting for in the mail - sixteen! How did this happen? Okay, I know how it happened, but where did my self control go? Obviously it's been on an extended vacation somewhere... most likely on Harmony playing with the dust bunnies.
So to help me curb my over enthusiasm of late, here is a list of what I've bought (and still waiting for!) so that I can look at it when I feel the urge to splurge...
Evelina, Howards End, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Far From the Madding Crowd, Vanity Fair, Tom Jones, Ethan Frome, Wives and Daughters, Doctor Thorne, The Small House at Allington, The Warden, The Way of All Flesh, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Night Walks, Conspicuous Consumption, Heart of Obsidian, The Arsene Lupin Omnibus, Melmoth the Wanderer, A Natural History of Dragons, The Castle of Otranto, In A Glass Darkly, Christine, The Magicians Guild, Cast in Flight, The Burning Lamp, Archangel's Heart, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Name of the Wind, Making It Up As I Go Along, Maskerade, Moving Pictures, The Mystery Woman, and finally The Dragon Griaule, not to mention the 10 or so books I've picked up from the local thrift shops!
And that is only back over what I've bought since the 14th of last month! I've recently had a real thing for Penguin English Library books as you can probably tell from the list above (titles in blue). Most of them are for next years reading challenge I'll be setting for myself, and I'll be starting to collect a few of the Penguin Great Ideas as well, again for another challenge.
When all my books are in I'll have to put them all on a table somewhere and take a group picture, so to speak, just to show you the actual size of my recent bookmail. Where the hell am I going to fit all of these books? Looks like I'll just have to buy another bookcase ;-D
Oops, just glanced out the window and it looks like there is a storm on the way so I'm going to have to quickly post this update and get off the computer. Like I said earlier, this weather is nuts!
Until next time,
