The OF Blog: After a break, some book porn for your enjoyment

Friday, March 25, 2011

After a break, some book porn for your enjoyment


It's been a while since I posted a book porn post, so I thought I'd highlight just some of a few dozen books that I have bought or received over the past month or so.  There are many others not pictured that I believe I've either mentioned directly or featured in some other way, so this is just the tip of the iceberg.  In this first photo, here are two recent Easton Press purchases (I now have close to 60% of their 100 Greatest Books Ever Written books collected; several other recent purchases aren't featured here, though), along with four books by Eric Basso that will be discussed in the near future.


Here are some foreign language acquisitions from the past month or so.  I received as a gift two book from Brazilian writer Octavio Aragão that will be read and hopefully reviewed in the next few weeks (I plan on reviewing more Brazilian/Portuguese works next month).  The Marías book will be reviewed later in the year, once I've bought/read the other two books in his trilogy.   Balzac was great (I can't recall if I featured this book before; I might have), the Flaubert will be read/reviewed shortly, and Racine will be read sometime later this year.


Just so Jason can believe me, I did purchase a used copy of Garber's Shakespeare After All.  It's about time that I read Amos Tutuola's work, so I thought I'd start with an early work of his.  Couldn't pass up the recently-released Library of America edition of Henry James' Novels 1903-1911.  Rosendorfer's The Architect of Ruins will be read and possibly reviewed in the near future (I think I'll list it in my next reviewing poll).  Thiong'o's memoir of his childhood and adolescence was excellent.  Partway through Jesse Bullington's second novel, The Enterprise of Death, and it is promising so far.  Review later this spring.

And there you go.  Some book porn to sate the appetites of those who needed their appetites sated.

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