It’s a busy time of year for me at work, and I’ve been struggling a little to keep up with the reading; and so I’ve tried to stem the amount of books coming into the house. But that usually fails a bit, and there *are* a few new arrivals I’d like to share with you! 🙂
I’m still taking donations to the local charity stores and doing quite well at not bringing replacements home. However, these two slipped into my bag somehow – well, they really couldn’t be left behind…
The Saint-Exupery is a title I’ve wanted to read for a long time, and such a beautiful Penguin edition in lovely condition couldn’t be ignored. As for the Simenon, well I’m intrigued – it’s one of his non-Maigret titles and is set in a Soviet port in the 1930s, where the new Turkish Consul has an affair with a local woman and has to deal with the consequences. I’m really keen to read this one soon!
The other arrivals are all new books, which is rather fab! First up, a prize in a giveaway from the lovely Pushkin Press:
Again, this one sounds really good and I can’t wait to read it. The other books are all review ones, planned for forthcoming editions of Shiny New Books:
New Penguin Modern Poets – what more can I say????
Grand Hotel – very excited about this one too, as it’s being raved about.
And finally, the reason I’m not reading much else at the moment:
600 pages of Dostoevskian loveliness! So if my reviews are not so frequent for a while, you’ll know why! 🙂
Jul 12, 2016 @ 06:48:10
Wow! Some good ones here. Happy reading! 🙂
Jul 12, 2016 @ 06:54:34
Thank you! I think they could keep me busy for quite some time!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 07:05:59
I really can’t blame you for any of these!!!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 09:13:02
They *are* rather appealing, aren’t they?
Jul 12, 2016 @ 07:11:00
Lovely haul! It’s all about work/life balance, so if you’re busy at work you *have* to buy more books 😉
Jul 12, 2016 @ 09:12:38
Exactly – thank you for that rationale! 🙂
Jul 12, 2016 @ 08:30:42
Nice haul… Affections & Grand Hotel immediately entice!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 09:11:37
They do sound wonderful, don’t they?
Jul 12, 2016 @ 11:16:30
Oh, I’m so envious of the Penguin Modern Poets volumes. I want some of my own!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 11:20:17
They’re very lovely to look at – and having dipped into the content a little, I think that what’s inside will live up to the outside!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 12:08:50
oooh, thta’s a blast from the past: Maigret!! That would be a good re-read for the summer. I’ve put Grand Hotel on my list. Thnak you!!! xxoxo
Jul 12, 2016 @ 12:54:40
Simenon is always a good read!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 16:07:22
Looking forward to all of your wonderful reviews 😀
Jul 12, 2016 @ 16:14:18
Thank you! 🙂
Jul 12, 2016 @ 18:01:15
Amazed to find Simenon had time for any non Maigret novels. The guy must have been a word machine
Jul 12, 2016 @ 19:14:03
Apparently he wrote literally hundreds of books – albeit short ones. I wonder if he counts as the most prolific author ever? 🙂
Jul 12, 2016 @ 21:15:02
I’ve not come across anyone else whose tally approaches his in any way
Jul 14, 2016 @ 18:08:13
Did he write more than Agatha Christie then?
Jul 14, 2016 @ 18:24:42
I think so – Wikipedia states her wrote “nearly 500 novels and numerous short works” so that’s many more than Agatha who seems to clock in at the early 100s!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 18:44:43
Perfect looking books for you. Happy reading. This week and next week are going to be tough for me too. Blogging is very hard to find time and energy for. Roll on summer hols 😊
Jul 12, 2016 @ 19:13:25
Yeah, it’s not an easy time for us to read, is it? I’m managing a chapter or two of Dostoevsky a day (and they’re short chapters!) if I’m lucky which is nothing like my usual rate of reading – just so tired!
Jul 12, 2016 @ 19:30:28
I feel your pain!
Jul 13, 2016 @ 01:44:19
Grand Hotel is fantastic. I hope you like it too!
Jul 13, 2016 @ 06:27:46
Really looking forward to it!
Jul 13, 2016 @ 06:43:23
Lovely haul! Especially the lovely Penguin edition of Saint- Exupery. Enjoy! 🙂
Jul 13, 2016 @ 09:18:16
Isn’t it beautiful? I couldn’t resist – and you don’t often see an old Penguin in such great condition!
Jul 19, 2016 @ 09:08:03
Pretties! I love that you stick post-it markers in books, too, or is that your bookmark? I’m deep in review books, too – especially in one that’s trying to make a case for Evelyn Waugh not actually being horrible …
Jul 19, 2016 @ 09:29:46
The post-its are to mark quotes, or else I would forget them – even if I write down the page number I can’t always remember which bit on the page I was intending to recall…..
Jul 19, 2016 @ 12:05:53
Exactly what I do. Then I forget to take them out as I go along and my books are festooned with them!
Jul 19, 2016 @ 12:53:49
Mine too….. 😮
Jul 22, 2016 @ 01:55:06
Lovely books as always! I do love Anne Carson’s poetry, and I have a copy of The Hotel, too. I couldn’t resist the cover. I like the idea of reading a long Russian book this summer. I’m in the middle of a long Victorian novel and it does take so much time.
Jul 22, 2016 @ 09:01:00
Long Russians are good! Now I’m debating whether to start War and Peace….
Jul 27, 2016 @ 09:27:04
Awesome lot, particularly Flight to Arras and The Adolescent. I wrongly thought Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum was the source material for the Greta Garbo movie.
Jul 27, 2016 @ 10:07:34
No, you’re not wrong – the book *was* the source for the film, though I haven’t seen it which I’m pleased about. I’m in the “The Book is Always Better” camp and I’d much prefer to read first and watch later!
Jul 27, 2016 @ 18:41:37
Okay, thanks for correcting this 🙂