What did YOU buy today? December 2023

FoLing again. That should be a verb. Picked up Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle by Jonathan Horn,
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham,
Skeletons in the Closet (this one came from NYRB) by Jean-Patrick Manchette,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American dreamby Hunter S. Thompson, and
The Way of the World by Nicholas Bouvier.

My NYRB order came in today:
Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet
Notes of a Crocodile by Miaojin Qiu
Born Under Saturn by Margot Wittkower
Arabia Felix by Thorkild Hansen
And from Early Reviewers The Spirituality of Dreaming by Kelly Bulkeley

>2 varielle: Wow. I've never heard of Arabia Felix, but I think I need to own it. Fascinating.

Bunch of ARCs arrived today. I grabbed two, both historical fiction:
* The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (pub 2/24; this one has a supernatural twist)
* Clear by Carys Davies (pub 4/24)

I have two other books by him, so today I bought How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Greger.

I screwed up and accidentally picked up one I already had The Pirates Lafitte. Obviously I’m not reading fast enough. Also picked up The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques so maybe it will inspire me to do something.

Because I am suggestible, I ordered & today I purchased The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen.

Darn you, LibraryThing.

A to Z : marvels in paper engineering : the history, inspiration, and process, by Bruce Foster. It's a collection of 26 pop-ups by different paper engineers.

From a visit to Powell's the other day:
Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw, by Leonard K. Eaton. This was actually already in my "Read but not Owned" collection, but i bought a copy for my library
Gli duoi fratelli rivali = The two rival brothers, by Giambattista della Porta. This is a bilingual edition.
Fading ads of Chicago, by Joseph Marlin, photographs of those fading ads you see on the side of old buildings.
The noble room : the inspired conception and tumultuous creation of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, by David M. Sokol, a book I've been wanting for a while.

We went to the Art Institute to see the exhibit, Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, so I bought the catalog.

And a visit to Seminary Co-op yesterday resulted in Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World, by Christopher de Hamel, another book that's been on my wish list, so it was nice to find it a) in paperback, and b) on sale.