Just Added to My Shelves:

The books just keep coming and coming and coming... The "good" news is that I was able to donate about 970 volumes from my non-cyber library to the Brooklyn Public Library's annual sale!

Here are some of the latest additions, however...

• From Germany to Germany by Gunter Grass (Amazon Vine ARC)
• The Goldberg Variations by Susan Isaacs (Kindle)
• The Liberator by Alex Kershaw (NetGalley)
• From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra (Brooklyn Public Library)
• The Resistance by Peter Steiner (Brooklyn Public Library)
• The Potter's Hand by A.N. Wilson (Amazon UK purchase)
• The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling (Kindle)
• When it Happens to You by Molly Ringwald (Kindle)
• Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie (Kindle)
• The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey (Brooklyn Public Library)
• How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton (NetGalley)
• Tombstone by Yang Jinsheng (NetGalley)
• The Watchers by Stephen Alford (NetGalley)
• Semper Fidelis by Ruth Downie (NetGalley)
• Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell (NetGalley)
• Better Off Without 'Em by Chuck Thompson (Kindle)
• In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin (Amazon Vine ARC)

Too many books, too little time... Hence the deaccessions. I was fairly ruthless: if a book didn't strike me as something I was highly likely to re-read, had no sentimental value or isn't in an area of interest of mine, I marked it for disposal. I now have open shelf space once more -- well, for the time being...