What did YOU buy today? August 2020

Yesterday I brought home:
The woman in the dunes by Kobo Abe and
The ten loves of Mr Nishino and People from my neighbourhood, both by Hiromi Kawakami.
*Yay!!* :)

Yesterday:

A Tranquil Star: unpublished stories, by Primo Levi
The Women of Renaissance Florence, by Richard C. Trexler
The Way of Taiko, by Heidi Varian

Today:

Two Cities, by Cynthia Zarin

The bargain section of my fave local bookstore proved way too tempting to just pass through yesterday... :)
Lost girls by Angela Marsons
Just before I died by S. K. Tremayne
Cranes fly early by Chingiz Aitmatov

Yup. I'm still here. I was furloughed from work for 4 months, applied to unemployment 2-1/2 months in when I had no idea whether I'd be working again or when. I've been back at work for a couple of weeks. Maybe someday I'll get that unemployment compensation. No idea how far behind they are, but someone I work with who applied right away said it took 13 weeks before he got his compensation.

When I got my first paycheck since furlough, I sent some money to try to save the country from a political party that has "jumped the shark." And I brought home 1 ARC and 4 bought books (2 deliberately, 2 impulsively):

The ARC is The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons (pub date 9/20; contemporary fiction). It sounds like a cross between The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

The two deliberately purchased books:
* Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris (latest in an historical mystery series I buy in hardcover)
* The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How To Write the Story beneath the Surface by Donald Maass (his books on writing have generated a lot of ideas)

And the two impulsive purchases:
* Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain (Regency-era romance, being or has been filmed)
* The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes (WWII historical fiction based on a story the author heard from someone who observed the events)

I need to shut my wallet, though. Especially if that compensation never comes. And who knows what the future will bring. The waited-13-weeks guy said he dumped money into his savings, just in case.

So good to hear from you again, ReneeMarie!!! And good to hear you're back at work! But the rest you talked about... :( :( I hope that compensation money gets to you soon!!!

Sometime last week - I don't remember which day - I brought home
Red girls by Kazuki Sakuraba and Final Girls by Riley Sager, both from the bargain section of my local bookstore.

I won't have access to LT for the next 20 days or so, so I'm saying bye till then!

So much for closing my wallet. I brought home 3 ARCs, but also bought 3 books.

ARCs:
* If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore (pub 9/20; precursor of Cambridge Analytics)
* Jane in Love by Rachel Givney (pub 10/20; Austen time travels to present day)
* When We Were Young & Brave: A Novel by Hazel Gaynor (pub 10/20; WWII historical fiction)

Purchases:
* What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues that Matter by Jessamyn Conrad (I had the 3rd edition, this is the 4th)
* True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump by Jeffrey Toobin
* Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: a Recent History by Kurt Andersen (3rd book of his I've bought; one other nonfiction, one fiction)

I also ordered Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits by James D. Zirin. And I preordered Rage by Bob Woodward.

Received from Bookmooch a first edition of William Styron’s Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.

Adding a book I bought in August, previously mentioned: Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits by James D. Zirin.