Amazon Raid

[stoutfellow]

Last Sunday, I put in an order at Amazon; it arrived in three separate packages over the last two days.

The contents included two CDs - Dinah Washington, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and Steppenwolf, All Time Greatest Hits - and six books: Laura Joh Rowland, Assassin's Touch (another in the Sano Ichiro series); Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys; George Macdonald Fraser, Flashman's Lady; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (look, you know what a procrastinator I am!); Nicholas Ostler, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World; and James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds.

I'm especially looking forward to reading Empires of the Word; I've heard a lot of good things about it.

Comments

[toraks.livejournal.com]

Anansi Boys I really liked a lot.

HP7 -- don't worry, not missing much...

Empires of the World sounds interesting. Do they hit India? I'm reading The Adventure of English, it's pretty good so far other than the annoying "English is the best language in the whole world, as are the English" attitude. (by Melvyn Bragg and a subtitle on the title, I'm forgetting)

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Judging from your posts about your book purchases, either your local public library is very lucky in its donation department or your house is lined with books. Or both [g].