This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue: A Novel (Harper, 2012). Record stores, midwives, and love in early twenty-first century California. (BOMC)
- Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief (Norton, 2000). Parallel tale of two members of the MacDonald family, one who emigrates to Canada in the late eighteenth century and one who deals with the troubles of what's left of his family in the twentieth. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Zadie Smith, NW (Penguin, 2012). A cluster of families in northwest London and the spiralling effects of an unexpected event. (Amazon)
- Kirstie Blair, Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion (Oxford, 2012). Studies the relationship between liturgical and poetic form in nineteenth-century poetry. (Amazon [secondhand])