Trigger happy finger clicking this week, some fortuitous charity finds and some gift from across the way.
Firstly a couple of Donna Leon's. Discerning reader's the world over are reading Death at La Fenice and then rapidly buying the other 13 in the series, or is it 14? How can I not at least investigate the fuss and likely catch the bug?
Amazon coughed up at my behest the latest Margaret Drabble The Sea Lady, plus a couple of recommends from Persuasive of Longbarn, Lying Awake by Mark Salzman and Hotel Savoy by Joseph Roth. Celandine, Steve Augarde's sequel to The Various also sneaked into that order at last.
Then two lovely packages from across the way.One from Graywolf Press in Minnesota who responded magnificently to a pathetic begging e mail from me and sent The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee. A book parcel from my Ohio bookaholic kindred spirit revealed a copy of The Sound on the Page : Style and Voice in Writing by Ben Yagoda, here's some blurb.
"This is an ingenious and memorable exploration of writing's soul, a small book that challenges us to look past some of the operative 'rules' of the written word and to bravely examine what many writers consider ineffable - the matter of style"
Interviews with more than forty authors including coincidentally Margaret Drabble.
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