You’ll notice I’ve added a new section to the right sidebar called “Book Bought” — which, obviously shows books that I’ve recently purchased. I decided to add this section because I don’t usually read book in the order I purchase them, and I really want to show what books are coming into my personal library. Books under “Books Bought” are different from books under “Future Reads” because ideally “Future Reads” includes only books that I plan to read in the near future. True enough, Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to The End has been listed under “Future Reads” for several months, and I have yet to crack it open, though my plan is to remedy this after I finished I Am Legend.
As for the books I’ve just purchased, let me give you a run down:
As any reader of my blog knows, I’m a fan of Nick Hornby. Despite this, I haven’t read The Polysyllabic Spree or Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, both a compilation of selections from his “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column for The Believer literary magazine.
I said in my previous blog entry that I was working on getting James Patterson’s Double Cross on audiobook, and I’ve finally done that. That will likely be read soon after I get it in the mail.
The last book I got was The Better of McSweeney’s, Volume 1 , which is a collection of “the best stories from the first ten issues of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern.” McSweeney’s publishes Believer and also put out the aforementioned Nick Hornby books of his columns from Believer.