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I'm Jessie Quinn from cupofbooks and this is a book haul.
The first book I bought back in February was A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. It's one of the Sherlock mysteries.
I really liked the cover. It's small, it fits in my purse really easily. It's hard
to find
individual novels of the Sherlock Holmes
mysteries. A lot of them just come in big, ginormous bind-ups and I just,
I don't really do bind-ups, because I can't carry them in my purse.
I mean, I could. My purse is huge, but I
wouldn't want to carry them in my purse.
The next book is Kissing The Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue. This
is a collection of fairy tale retellings that are told from a feminist and ***
perspective. I reread it recently and I still absolutely adore it.
The next two books I actually bought at
the local Goodwill.
The first one
is Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
This is a lively and funny tale of a family in turn-of-the-century Mexico.
I actually have already read this book before but I read it in Spanish.
for one of my intermediate Spanish courses in college and
I don't remember much about it and I know I skipped quite a few chapters
because I was so far behind at points that I had to just
skip ahead and spark-note the rest.
The next book
I bought from Goodwill
is a book that I knew nothing about,
had never heard of it before, didn't even know what it was about 'cause it's missing its
dustjacket...
but
it looked like this.
I saw this book and I just had to have it.
It's called The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and
after I got home from Goodwill, I looked it up on Goodreads and it's the
second book in a series. According to Goodreads, this is a dark, gothic tale about a
young man who is trying to
write novels.
I hope this doesn't end badly because the last book I bought
specifically
for its cover was absolutely terrible.
Then a
week or so ago,
the local grocery store ended up having a bargain bin of books.
They had all these really nice, popular hardbacks for only five bucks and
by the time I got to the bin,
apparently it had been out for a while, so most of the books had already been sold
but I did find one:
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel.
This is about a man named Henry who receives a letter from an elderly
taxidermist
and somehow ends up very involved in the lives of a donkey and a
howler monkey. The only thing I'm annoyed with about this copy is that there's this black
sticker I can't seem to take off. Then the remaining books I bought this past month
are not for me but they're actually for my niece.
The first one is a little golden book. It's based on Disney's Doc McStuffins,
which I keep hearing about in a lot of blogs posts. I know a lot of
parents really like this one, 'cause it features a girl of color
who is the a doctor and is called Doc, and she
fixes her stuffed animals, I believe.
I think she can make them come to life and she fixes them.
So this one is called "A Knight in Sticky Armor."
In the end, it's the little girl
who ends up saving the knight and i thought that was pretty cool.
One of the other books I bought her was
Slow Snail by Mary Murphy.
"Snail slides slowly down
her
flower." The snail does not have
outrageous eyelashes or pretty pink bows or is wearing a dress.
The snail is just
a snail but can also be a lady snail.
The last book I bought my niece is a book that I keep seeing on
Top Books for Young Girls, Top Books for
Feminist Readers who have Kids, Top Gender-Positive Children's Books, etc, etc.
And the book is
The Paperbag Princess
by Robert Munsch and art by Michael Martchenko.
I probably messed that up.
This is a book about
a little princess
takes on a fearsome dragon who has stolen the prince from her kingdom. I can
see why it's gotten as much praised as that has. If you have any suggestions of
books I should check out for her,
let me know comments below.
I don't know how many people read children's books, but maybe you have a
young one in your life
like me
and have some
suggestions.
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