Big Bag of Books Day!

One of my favorite events in Houston, besides the Art Car parade, is the Houston Public Library annual booksale. On Sunday, the last day of the sale, you can buy a bagful for $10.

Book Booty:

fiction--
Persuasion; Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run; John Updike
Postcards; E. Annie Proulx
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing; Melissa Bank
Ellen Foster; Kaye Gibbons
The Lover; Marguerite Duras
The Pilot's Wife; Anita Shreve
The Diagnosis; Alan Lightman
Corelli's Mandolin; Louis de Bernieres
The Corrections; Jonathan Franzen
Willard and His Bowling Trophies; Richard Brautigan
On Love; Alain de Botton
Daughter of Fortune; Isabel Allende

poetry--
Homecoming: New and Collected Poems; Julia Alvarez
Fathers: a collection of poems; David and Judy Ray, eds.
Into the Garden: a wedding anthology; Robert Hass and Stephen Mitchell, eds.

plays--
Complete Works 4; Harold Pinter
Our Town; Thornton Wilder
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Tom Stoppard
Murder in the Cathedral; T. S. Eliot

short stories--
Daisy Miller and other stories; Henry James
A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith
Complete Short Stories; D. H. Lawrence
Dust on Her Tongue; Rodrigo Rey Rosa


I find my book selections these days are heavily influenced by 1. Dr. Michael Olmert (de Botton, Stoppard, Pinter, Eliot); 2. my dad (Franzen, Brautigan, Proulx) and 3. Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran (Austen, James).