New Purchases

Today I nipped into the Mind charity shop and picked up two books -

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Mary Anne by Daphne Du Maurier

I love Du Maurier and the Roy book I remembered as the Booker Prize winner a few years ago.

There were three copies of The Edge of Reason, the Bridget Jones sequel. I never did finish the first one, not being able to relate to it much and it seems the charm of the book is in the recognition of self and situations. I tried to read it after I saw, and enjoyed, the film but found it a hard slog. And never bothered with the second. Seems it's not a book people treasure.

Also received an online purchase today: The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M Hollander. Meant to be the best translation so I'm looking forward to that.

Just wanted to list the books purchased since Christmas:

Another copy of Crow by Ted Hughes (a copy to carry around and batter :)
The Living Woodland by David Boag (free with Crow)
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Collins Complete British Trees (more portable than my tree book and better photos)
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan (again, as the other was soiled {brand new for 2 squids!})
The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chodron
Hedge-Rider by Eric de Vries
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
A New Earth by Eckart Tolle
Host by Stephenie Meyer
Earth Angels by Doreen Virtue (again; duh)

See, I buy these books through various means (three of the above were two pounds each and others on multi-buy offers), but then always pick up old ones to reread, like I'm glued to - and gaining more revelations the second time around - Caroline Myss's Anatomy of Spirit and have also pulled out of the depths Eugene T Gendlin's Focusing. And I still need to finish the Twilight books.

I overtax myself.
See, this is why immortality is so enticing, Chris :)