,I got home last night, leaving behind sunny, 31C weather to return home to rain and 8C. Ah well, at least the cats still recognised me and my husband was very happy to have me home.
Along with an astounding amount of new clothes (mid-season sales!!) I brought back a pile of books (of course) and returned home to find another pile waiting for me as my internet buys continued to pile up in my absence. The tally:
New books in June: 19
Books read in June: 1
One book read this month. I don’t think I have ever before only read one book in a month so that probably says more about how much fun I had than all of the pictures I took (and there were many!).
The books in the bar above are the purchases I made in Amsterdam at the American Book Center (Highly recommend!) and at the used/antiquarian book fair taking place in the street out front. The covers below represent my normal haul of internet buys.
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho was recommended to me by my best friend and he also found The Fine Art of Fucking Up – Cate Dicharry and I read the summary over his shoulder and thought it sounded good. Battle of the Books – Jonathan Swift was a find at the book market and how could I not pick up a gem with that title?
The other 3 at the top are recommendations from my fellow BookLikers, so I know they’re going to be good!
The American Book Center… I could have spent days and days here….