The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Attack of books on deep discount.  Obi-Wan, you're my only hope?)

  • M. T. Anderson, Feed (Candlewick, 2004).  YA dystopia set in an ultra-cyberpunk environment.  The summer reading assignment for my college's freshmen.  (Review copy)
  • Junichiro Tanizaki, Seven Japanese Tales (Vintage, 1996). Collection of short stories written in the early twentieth century.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Christopher Moore, Fool (Morrow, 2009).  Everything you know about King Lear is very wrong.  (eBay)
  • Nicholas Mosley, Children of Darkness and Light (Dalkey Archive, 1997).  Journalist reports on a sighting of the Virgin Mary.  (eBay)
  • Jules Lubbock, Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello (Yale, 2006).  Biblical narrative in Renaissance painting and sculpture.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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