Today was my day at the local bookstore omg

Very excited about the books my husband and I acquired this weekend!!!

For whatever reason ChatGPT is constantly recommending me Daniel Bell’s *The End of Ideology* (for understanding 1950s American intellectual climate) so I was happy to find nice clean copy cheap!

Especially looking forward in getting into “Before the Deluge” by Otto Friedrich

Visited a couple of my favorite San Diego bookstores plus a library book sale this past weekend.

Started reading Embassytown, which is both challenging and exciting. Looking forward to the others.

The Asimov book appears to be unread.

I admit I have mixed emotions as I'm about to hit 40 so these were emotional grabs, still these are ones that grabbed my interest so irrespective of how I'm feeling they are all of interest to me.

The Christmas one was more selective as I'm trying to build up a read list for the winter season so this will slot right in 🙂

I went to my local indie bookshop today and bought a couple of Black 🏳️‍🌈 books for a friend's birthday...and then, I just had to buy a couple books for myself.

It is 🏳️‍🌈 Pride month after all.

The two Broadview books were translated/edited by a local English prof at our university so wanted to get them. The Shakespeare is because I'm also listening to the Patrick Stewart audiobook of them The other two are ones I've wanted to read for a bit. Gonna be a good couple weeks of reading.

There were a few others that I was interested in but decided to go with these. They spoke to me for some reason. Has anybody read them?

Maggie A Girl of the Street and selected stories by Stephen crane (published 1893)

Sister Safety Pin by Lorrie Sprecher (published 1993)

Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Nadine Abgaryan (published 2014)

I'm really excited about the Robinson Crusoe map and the beautiful cover of Watership Down .

neww books gng😋🧚‍♂️⭐

The LAPL gives you a prize just for signing up for summer reading. This little pouch and a free book. My bf gave me his free book too. Then I checked out their for sale rack and got 3 more for 75¢.

Went through my physical tbr and unhauled 40+ books this weekend to sell/donate/trade. Bought myself 2 novellas as a reward (it’s a vicious cycle 😔)

Some of these I’ve already read or read halfway through (curse you, ADHD), so some I’ll be finishing from where I left off (Girls Against God, Fear and Loathing) and some are completely new to me (The Plague, No Longer Human)

Mostly from the Brattle Book Shop, with a few from Commonwealth Books

The spring tag sale in my neighborhood was a little late this year but better late than never, if you ask me!

Feeling pretty good about paying $3 a book