Jenclair shared this link today. If I can figure out how, I think this might be an appropriate photo of a few piles of books to add. This was my big reorganization project from this past summer. It's amazing how many books you can fit into one bookcase when you are creative! Or do you think these piles are too messy? Maybe I should create some sort of artistic pile of books?
I canceled all my book requests at the public library but two. Guess what I have waiting for me as I type? Kate Atkinson's One Good Turn (a follow up to Case Histories, which I really enjoyed), and Sena Jeter Naslund's Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. Guess what I found on the new book carts at my library earlier? The Sea Captain's Wife by Matha Hodes, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, After This by Alice McDermott, and The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien (I came this close to buying this one last time I was at the bookstore--you can read a review of it here). I'll pick up my public library holds tomorrow after work. I'm still trying to decide whether or not to put routing slips in the books at my library...
It looks as though the BBC has filmed a new adaptation of The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. I like most things made by the BBC, and I bet it is much better than this version (which I didn't much like despite Nathaniel Parker starring in it!). I wonder how long we'll have to wait until we get to see it over here? I am happy to see that season four of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries have recently been released (also starring an older, but still hunky Nathaniel Parker). I am a fan of Elizabeth George, though I am not sure how I feel about the direction she has taken the Lynley novels. She has a new book out, but I am unsure whether I want to buy it or not. Rather than picking up where her last cliff-hanger of a novel left off, she goes back in time and tells the story of the events that led up to the rather climactic conclusion of With No One As Witness. Generally I buy her books as soon as they come out, but I have been a bit hesitant about this one. Maybe it will go on the Christmas wishlist.
I mentioned that I am contemplating a book order from the UK. I know I will get one or two books by Daphne Du Maurier (I had no idea she published as many books as she did), but I am unsure of what else to get--a couple other titles to round things out). Litlove recently mentioned a book by A.N. Wilson, A Jealous Ghost, which is a retelling of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. My one catch when I order books from abroad is that they not be easily obtainable here in the US (shipping is too expensive for books when I could buy them here locally), and the Wilson book from what I can tell has not yet been published here. So, any suggestions of new British books (though preferably in paper)? I am sure I can easily browse a bit and find plenty, but I like it when someone has already "tested the waters" so to speak. As always, suggestions welcome.