Now this seems a far more reasonable number of library books, doesn't it? One DVD and one memoir slash cookbook!
I think I was actually expecting something else, but I have got the Shirley MacLaine version of Coco Chanel. I was thinking I had requested this, but oh well. It still looks interesting.
Peter Akinti's Forest Gate looks really interesting but also very dark. Akinti was born in London of Nigerian ancestry but lives in New York now. The blurb reads, "a shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London--beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth."
Follow Me by Joanna Scott is an impulse choice. I don't usually browse the new books shelves often these days as I tend to have plenty on hold already when I drop by the library, and it seems like all the really good books have been requested by patrons. Still there are probably all sorts of hidden gems if I'd take the time to look around a little. The is an "epic and unforgettable novel of a young woman's search for herself in America."
Kelly O'Connor McNees's The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott might be interesting after having read a biography of her late last year. The author mixes fact with fiction, which tends to be an iffy proposition, but you never know!
And I had to get Molly Wizenberg's A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table after Darlene wrote about it and further tempted me with a photo of the lemon cake she made from one of hte recipes. I wonder if I can pull that off, too? You've got to love a book that tells you how to make something yummy looking like that!
And this may be hard to believe, but I have not a single book on hold at the moment and have a feeling nothing new is going to come up in the coming week. I guess that means I should read what I have? Why is bringing home new (library or otherwise) books such an adrenaline rush?