This Week's Acquisitions
- Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Vintage, 2000). Orphans + gangsters = revisionist crime fiction. (Lift Bridge)
- Dan Simmons, Drood (Little, Brown, 2009). Neo-Egyptian rituals, laudanum, sexual shenanigans, cannibalism, murder...and, of course, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. (BOMC)
- Marcus Tanner, Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggles for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 (Yale, 2003). A journalist's take on Ireland's history from the sixteenth century to the present. (Amazon [secondhand])