Somehow, I borrowed twenty-four books from the library last night.
Ever since we decided we needed to purge our house of non-favorite literature, I’ve been putting the Boston Public Library system to work, asking it to reach its long arms into all of its stacks and pull title after titled out and send them to my local branch. I’ve got my account set up so that I receive emails whenever my books arrive, but the automated process still has some kinks in it — which I why I showed up only expecting five titles and walking out with twenty-four. I mean, what was I supposed to do, leave some behind and risk hurting their feelings? I’m not that cruel.
Here they are, in alphabetical order:
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Darling Jim by Christian Moerk
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
- Dry by Augusten Burroughs
- The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef’s Craft for Every Kitchen by Michael Ruhlman
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck
- Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story by Isabel Gillies
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- I’m So Happy For You by Lucinda Rosenfeld
- It Must’ve Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
- A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- The Little Black Book of Style by Nina Garcia (I love her, and miss her on Project Runway.)
- Marcovaldo, or, The Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino
- Outtakes from a Marriage by Ann Leary
- Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
- Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum by Michael Gross
- The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
- Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles by Katie Roiphe
- The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation by David Kamp
The thing is, I only get to keep these guys until the twentieth, so I’ve got to get reading.
Tags: Bangkok Days, Books, Charles C. Mann, Christian Moerk, Columbine, Darling Jim, David Halberstam, Lawrence Osborne, library, reading, The Best and the Brightest, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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