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Friday Finds


I’ve added much to the TBR list recently! What I’ve listed here is stuff that’s come into my house within the past few weeks—I have no self control! I recently discovered Virago books, so I apent a part of last weekend on ebay, looking to see what I could find. I walked away with:

Frost in May, by Antonia White

Invitation to the Waltz, by Rosamond Lehmann

The Rising Tide, by Molly Keane

And then I added about a dozen more Viragos to my wish list…

Then this week I received a review copy of Great Maria, a reprint of the novel by Cecelia Holland. I enjoyed Jerusalem, so I jumped at the chance to read and review this one.

I also received Juliet, by Anne Fortier, based around the Romeo and Juliet Legend. This is my LTER books from last month, so I need to get to reading it soon.

Other purchases from the past couple of weeks:

Lots of Dorothy Sayers

Some more books in the Morland Dynasty series

Shinju, by Laura Joh Rowland

Nightingale Wood, by Stella Gibbons

Britannia Mews, by Margery Sharp

So, the month is only about 2/3 over, but already I’ve done a bit of damage… bringing the number of books I own but haven’t read up to 100! Yikes.

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Ana S. said…
Sayers! Nightingale Wood! Hard to go wrong with those. Enjoy your new acquisitions :)
May 22, 2010 at 7:37 AM
Danielle said…
I have those same three Viragos and am at the moment trying to decide on which Virago (from the pile I have) to pick--I tend to switch--read a Persephone and then a Virago. Unfortunately I tend to move slowly with them so don't read as many in a year as I'd like. Frost in May happens to be one I picked that I might start reading (along with a couple of others...now I have to decide on one...always a hard choice).
May 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM
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