What did YOU buy today? April 2016

I spent too much money last month, even if I only bought 3 books. It's the second day of April and I've already bought a book this month.

My copy of Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain got destroyed last August when I was stuck outside (broken car door lock) in a rainstorm. Today I replaced it.

I found Nicole Routhier's Fruit Cookbook in an antique mall yesterday for $3.

Picked up another ARC at work today: Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky. Comes out in May.

Oh, don't even.

I have purchased eight books this month, and received one ER book. And it's only the 12th.

Last week, I went to a sale and bought:

Picturing Wright : an album from Frank Lloyd Wright's photographer, by Pedro E. Guerrero
Building Taliesin : Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss, by Ron McCrea
Frank Lloyd Wright's Coonley House : story of a masterpiece, by Dean Eastman

Then I went on a tour and bought:

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum (Booklet)

Today I made the mistake of wandering into the Art Institute of Chicago's Museum Shop, and emerged with:

Matchibako : Japanese matchbox art of the 20s and 30s, by Maggie Kinser Hohle
What may come : the Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Mexican political print, by Diane Miliotes
Furoshiki : the art of Japanese wrapping fabric, by Kanako Hamasaki
In praise of shadows, by William Kentridge

The ER book is American luthier : Carleen Hutchins, the art and science of the violin, by Quincy Whitney

Made the mistake of looking at a table of new paperbacks. Saw and quickly bought Robert Goddard's Sea Change. It seems to be straight historical fiction a la David Liss.

All his books I've seen until now have been contemporary stories with a mystery tied to the historical past. The only one I've read so far is In Pale Battalions, but I enjoyed it enough that it was my staff rec a few years back.

And one more ARC, being published in June: Barkskins by Annie Proulx (without the E.), which covers 300 years of deforestation.

Made the mistake of looking up Susanna Kearsley and D. E. Stevenson and discovered I'd missed picking up one by the former and at least 3 by the latter.

Today I bought Named of the Dragon and ordered The Baker's Daughter and Celia's House.

Must. Stop. Now.

I'm reading teen titles for a future bookstore event, so brought home another ARC that I probably wouldn't have picked up, otherwise: The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye. Historical fantasy set in 19th century Russia.

Hit the friends of the library sale and came away with 22 books for $28.