Recent Orders

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In the course of reading Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority, of which more anon, I ran across a reference to Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. And it occurred to me that it might be an interesting book to read. Especially as it was, apparently, controversial when it first appeared.

Therefore, I decided to order a copy and so wandered off to The Hive, which delivers purchases to my local bookshop and gives them a share of the purchase price, too. With luck I will have it shortly.

While ordering, I decided I might buy a book from the Mistressworks list as well, as part of my, ahem, ongoing attempt to read those books. But the first one I found, Angel at Apogee, was a POD book costing £9.99. Considering that fiction in paperback usually costs £7.99--even for big fat books like Divergent--this was something of a stumbling block. Eventually I may end up having to pay it, but I wasn't prepared to pay it today. Although I have paid far more ridiculous prices to complete my PKD collection. Not however prices of the order of ~£130, which is what I'd have to pay to get Margaret St. Clair's Agent of the Unknown, it seems. In paperback, too. And not, so far as I could see, gold-plated. Not going there today either. Nope.

I went over to good old Awesome Books and had a look at what they might have secondhand from the MWorks list. There, I picked up three for under £8 from their Bargain Bin, with free delivery. Awesome indeed.

So, in addition to the Eichmann, I'm expecting the following:

Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns;
Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller
and
Catseye by Andre Norton.