I done good. I bought only two books this month. I won a third book via a contest. I read five books off my pile. I am officially at -2 for the month of June.
Also, I pulled a number of books off my shelf and put them in a box to be given away. I needed to be a little more ruthless in culling my book collection. So into the box went some books I liked but shouldn’t have been must-keep-for-all-time. More books will go into this box over the next couple of months.
As I did last year, I will be soliciting donations to the A.L.S. Association in memory of my mother, Dorinda Bender, who died from A.L.S. last October. I will send a book to anyone who donates $20 or more via the web page I will set up for the A.L.S.A. Walk to Defeat A.L.S.
On to this month’s acquisitions… So few I’m not even going to use a list. First book I bought was Akashic Books’ Seattle Noir edited by Curt Colbert. I liked Colbert’s Jake Rossiter series, and I liked Delhi Noir from the publisher. The second book I bought up just hours before the end of the month. That was The New Space Opera 2 (they shoulda called it The Newer Space Opera dammit!) edited by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan. My third physical book acquisition came via a contest Harper Studio had on Twitter; I won Who Is Mark Twain?, a collection of previously unpublished essays by Mark Twain.
In non-acquisitions: I checked out, read, and returned Daniel Farber’s Lincoln’s Constitution from the Seattle Public Library. And I downloaded Stephen Piziks’ In the Company of Mind from his web site.
My shelf space actually increased this month! That’s only happened one month in the last couple of years.
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