This Week's Acquisitions

  • David Malouf, Ransom: A Novel (Pantheon, 2010).  Achilles, Priam,  and Hector's body.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • John Burnside, The Glister (Talese,  2009).  Creepy killings in a dying town.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Christian Opinion and Revisionist I (1882).  What appears to be the full run of this weekly periodical, devoted to church news and, more importantly, commentary on the Revised Version (1881).   This bound volume--well, it used to be a bound volume--originally belonged to Ezra Abbot.   (eBay)
  • The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, and Guide to Christian Truth X-XI (1856-57).  Two volumes bound in one ("bound" is a courteous way of putting it...) of this Protestant monthly.   I also own volume XIII.  (eBay)