It’s being a good week for library growth. Courtesy of a holiday gift certificate, I’ve got five books on the way from Amazon UK: Pratchett’s Wintersmith, The Mislaid Magician, which is the second sequel to Stevermer and Wrede’s Sorcery and Cecelia, Scalzi’s Android’s Dream, Mike Ford’s The Dragon Waiting, because I read so much about him after his death that I had to read his actual writing, and The Unfolding of Language, which I hope will give me a better idea of the history of divergence of Dutch (and German) from English.
For roughly one-fortieth of the price last night I acquired four more books, because apparently one of the teachers at the school where we take our Dutch lessons is pruning her library. From her I have Connecticut Yankee, Anne of Avonlea (I don’t have all the Anne books, having read and reread many from the library), Nancy Mitford’s Love in a Cold Climate because I keep thinking I need to read Mitford, and Helen Cam’s England Before Elizabeth, because I seem to look up English history as much as I look up anything.
The Android’s Dream rocks really hard–I’ll be interested to hear what you think of it. Also, I think you will like Love in a Cold Climate; stylistically, it’s a bit dated, but the wit is very sly in it.
And I had no idea there was a new Kate and Cecilia book out, darn it! Now I have to go back to the bookstore 😉