October 23-24 Book Porn

Just three bought books this week, but I've already finished one (with a photo posted in the entry directly below this one) and enjoyed it, am about 100 pages into the second and thinking it's an improvement of sorts over the author's debut work, and the final work intrigues me, since his previous writings have straddled the imaginary blurred line between mimetic and speculative fiction.

Left: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet; Ian Cameron Esslemont, Return of the Crimson Guard (related to Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series); B.K. (Brian) Evenson, Aliens: No Exit.