Recent Acquisitions #63

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The pile of books I acquired on Saturday while I was supposed to be filling my prescription just fell onto the floor, so now seems as good a time as any to write about them here.

Haven't been feeling too well lately so the aim was to go to the nearest town, get the prescription filled, then come home. Of course, it didn't work out quite like that.

Firstly, we turned up at the pharmacy just as they closed for an hour for lunch. Timing! Secondly, there were Daleks. And Stormtroopers. And stalls. Stalls with books. Well, one stall with books, anyway.

And of course the charity shops, one of which had recently reopened after a fire.

And an hour to kill.

The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford;
The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade by Michael Jordan;
(as you can see, it was a day for Michaels; also, a day for Michaels with the same names as Famous Michaels)
Meridian by Alice Walker;
Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado
and
The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing.

Not that I need any more books about Rome, really.