Flag Day/World Juggling Day/Great Turtle Races Day/Army's Birthday/Tomato Festival (Louisiana)/Oyster Festival (California)/Blueberry Festival (Texas)/Strawberry Shortcake Day
2008-06-14 @ 11:35 p.m.

Was very tempted to pick up about a dozen books in the Faber & Faber Poet to Poet series, as a means of broadening my reading of poetry, which is practically non-existent when it comes to poets writing before the last century, with the notable exception of Thomas Hardy. In the end, I decided that this could wait, at least until next month's pay arrives. The series looks very good on the shelf though, colourful and portable volumes that give a quick glimpse of the work of the featured poet, which is why I still plan to collect the entire series eventually. Instead, what I bought today were five books by Bret Easton Ellis. The only novel I didn't get was Lunar Park, because Kinokuniya didn't have the Vintage Contemporary edition. Kinokuniya has, however, recently restocked their Nabokov collection, so I won't have to get all of his novels from BooksActually after all. I exchanged the copy of Edmund White's The Married Man that I bought by mistake for Nabokov's The Defense, purely for convenience because they're the same price. Guess I really should stop going to the library, what with so many unread books of my own languishing on my shelves. Picking which ones to haul to the UK is going to be a nightmare! Everything published by Vintage, that's for sure. Plus my Russell Hoban novels. Beyond that, who knows?