Twenty one

Matt at A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook has listed where he obtained his last twenty one reads.

Here are mine:
Sweet Bamboo: A memoir of a Chinese American family by Louise Leung Larson (library copy)
The vampire tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas (library copy)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (library copy)
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (Planet Books purchase)
Sacred hunger by Barry Unsworth (library sale purchase)
Fall on your knees by Ann-Marie McDonald (op shop purchase)
The kingdom by the sea by Robert Westall (library copy)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (Planet Books purchase)
Simon and the oaks by Marianne Fredriksson (op shop purchase)
MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips (op shop purchase)
Death of a red heroine by Qiu Xiaolong (Dymocks purchase)
The locked room by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Borders purchase)
Cop killer by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Borders purchase)
The terrorists by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (Borders purchase)
Original sin by P.D. James (Save the Children booksale purchase)
How I live now by Meg Rosoff (Oxford St Books purchase)
Nervous conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (long-owned copy, cannot recall where obtained)
Letter to my daughter by Maya Angelou (Book Depository purchase)
The reluctant fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (library copy)
Darkness visible by William Styron (library copy)
The charioteer by Mary Renault (Save the Children Booksale purchase)

I’m surprised that there are as many library books as there are – six (all borrowed, not from the public library, but from MPOW*). Eight were purchased new. Six secondhand. One of unknown provenance. I don’t tend to borrow from friends – rather I tend to lend. (Comes from having so many books rather than any particular generosity of spirit, I think.)

*MPOW: My Place Of Work