More for the collection! :)

Cover of Shakespeare's Planet

We finally got to the post office this morning, for the first time in a couple of weeks, to send off a couple of BookMooch items, and receive several more, plus a couple of much appreciated gifts from my mother. Nothing for the baby this time (although there is one children’s book, it’ll be a few years till she’d be ready for it), and a good few of them were DH’s choices (mostly classic science fiction) rather than mine, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I won’t read them even before he does…

• The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel. (My mother and I both read the first five books in this series in the 90s, so now that the last one is finally published she very kindly got me a copy. I don’t have copies of the others, but with that gap I presume Auel will remind us of any details we need to know. I do remember the basic story, and I’m sure the rest will come back to me.)
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  Cover of Jerusalem: The Biography

  Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore. (Both parents have recommended this as an interesting read, so I’m intrigued.)

• Timescape by Gregory Benford. (One of DH’s choices whose back cover makes it sound like apocalyptic SF.)
• Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner. (The second of the Boxcar Children Mysteries, as recommended by a couple of my lovely readers/commenters here, so I’ll try to get to this one relatively quickly.)
• Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman. (I requested the entire set of Hillerman’s Chee/Leaphorn novels on BookMooch, so they’re gradually arriving. I may wait for the rest and then read them through in chronological order.)
• The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman. (As above.)
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  Cover of The Lovely Bones

  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. (I never read this when it was so popular, but it did sound interesting, so we’ll see.)

• Shakespeare’s Planet by Clifford D. Simak. (DH’s. I haven’t read any Simak yet.)

Cover of The Planet Buyer (U.K.)

• The Planet Buyer by Cordwainer Smith. (As previous.)
• Destiny Doll by Clifford D. Simak. (This too.)
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. (And this.)

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