New titles in the house…

So – I can not deny that a few new titles may have crept into the house lately. One point to keep in mind is that, in order to maintain my goal of not buying too many books [hollow laugh], I managed to miss my library’s annual book sale, and that even when there was one day still to go when it was open, I didn’t. [Gives myself a big gold medal for such literary control.]

However, it’s amazing how sometimes books can be found everywhere and end up being rather hard to resist. 🙂 With that said, here are the titles that I have picked up on my wanderings in my home town and beyond:

(L-R) –

• Read On: Life Stories – Rosalind Reisner (2009)
• The Oxford Book of Letters – Anita Kermode, Frank Kermode (2003)
• A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman (2014)
• Apple of my Eye – Helene Hanff (1995)
• The Time Machine – H. G. Wells (1895)
• Forever Fifty and Other Negotiations – Judith Viorst (poetry) (1989)
• A Pocket Book of Modern American Stories – Philip Van Doren Stern (1955)
• The Jewel in the Crown – Paul Scott (1^st in the Raj Trilogy) (1966)

So this seems to be an interesting collection to me. I’m especially looking forward to the short story collection as I seem to have the attention span of a gnat and short stories may fit the bill. Plus, I’m curious to see what constitutes “modern” in this collection that was published in 1955.