I've actually not got much in the way to share in terms of library books. Either my library is just not getting in new books I want to read or I am being too picky or I am too far down in the queue for the books I am waiting for. That's probably just as well as I keep thinking how I need to get back to reading from my own stacks, but am constantly tempted by what I bring home. Or maybe three new books in the last two weeks from the library is actually an entirely reasonable number and I should try and do this more often rather than feel slightly deprived I've not got more?
Once again my library's interlibrary loan department has come through and found a copy of White Mischief that so many of you recommended. I don't think it was ever released in DVD over here so I have a very old fashioned VHS tape to watch. I have a VCR with the ability to play VHS movies, but it's been so long since I used it, I hope it works okay! You know what I'll be watching this weekend. I've also got a film by Jim Jarmusch that sounds interesting, Night on Earth. It sounds like it's made up of vignettes--five cities and five taxicabs and in a tale of "urban displacement and existential angst".
What would my book pile be without at least one mystery? Aly Monroe's The Maze of Cadiz novel is set in 1944 Spain where the narrator is sent to arrest a rogue spy. It sounds dark and atmospheric. I do love Europa Editions and when I spotted The Art of Losing by Rebecca Connell on the new books list I got in line right away. It sounds like a mixture of thriller, romance and infidelity. I might have to start with this one. I Remember You by Harriet Evans was an impulse choice. One of the blurbs calls this the "perfect girly read", which I am not sure is to the benefit of the book or not, but something easy and entertaining is not a bad thing at all. This is a girl gets dumped by boy, changes life, finds new boy sort of read. Don't judge a book by it's jacket blurbs, right?
Just having a new stack of books gives me the excuse to start one of them right now, don't you think?