Over the past few weeks I've gotten a few stragglers in the mail, a bookmooch and some other odds and ends I'd ordered a while back. Janet Morgan's Agatha Christie: A Biography came all the way from Finland. It's the first time I've ever mooched a book from anywhere other than the US and Canada! I love getting packages from Europe. People in Europe still use postage stamps, whereas here we seem only to use those machine printed postage labels--very boring. It's very festive getting something you're almost sure is a book but before you even open it you're treated to a colorful package covered in exotic-looking stamps.
Two books arrived from the Book Depository. I know Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is out here in the US, but I prefer paperbacks over hardcovers. I've heard raves about this one, so it'll be my next mystery as soon as I finish reading Tana French. I'd also been waiting for Katharine McMahon's Footsteps. I listened to The Alchemist's Daughter last year on audio and found it very enjoyable (one of the best audios I've listened to yet--great story with an excellent reader!), so when I saw she had a novel set in the Edwardian period, I knew I would have to read it as well.
So normally I prefer paperbacks over hardcovers, except when I find a hardcover that I want to read and it is a bargain book with accompanying very cheap price tag. Then price trumps format. I'll fit Germaine Greer's Shakespeare's Wife in on my shelves somewhere. This reminds me I had planned on reading more Shakespeare. Maybe it's time to revamp Project Shakespeare.
Sourcebooks is publishing Georgette Heyer's mysteries, so I thought I should give them a try. Behold, Here's Poison is the first title they've published. They also have a slew of her Regencies out now, which makes me think I'll never get around to all of them. It's nice to just have a few to fall back on when I need a nice, light comfortable read. I'll be curious to see how the mysteries compare.