Polish Outlander

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My first class for grad school starts in just a little over a week from now. So I had to buy some textbooks. I needed three, THREE, textbooks for my Canterbury Tales class:

That third book, when I opened it and saw that it was in Middle [...]

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Got two books recently from PBS:

Brigid of Kildare is the story of the revolutionary Saint Brigid and the discovery of the oldest illuminated manuscript in the annals of the Church, a manuscript that contains an astonishing secret history.Fifth-century Ireland: Brigid is Ireland’s [...]

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So last weekend, we went to see Inception. But we had lots of time to kill because two movie times were sold out. So we bought our tickets and then had over two hours to kill. Josh was worried that we would have a hard time [...]

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So last weekend Josh and I drove to Boston to stay with friends for the long weekend. And on the way there, we stopped at a place in Connecticut called Traveler Food and Books. Now this place is right off I-84, on a route that I [...]

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You know, everytime I go to conferences, I think I won’t be able to pick up anything since I’m in the booth all day. But I realized at ALA, that the best time to look at other booths and such is when I go to the [...]

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So I thought I’d do something slightly different. I want to show what I got at BEA, but I want to show the books that were not necessarily the ones that people stood in long lines for. Cause, just like last year, I stumbled upon some [...]

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Got only one book this week! One! Must be a record. This is what I got from PBS:

Young Elizabeth Tudor lives in the shadow of her infamous mother, Anne Boleyn. Declared a bastard and banished from her father’s court, young princess Elizabeth has become [...]

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What a great and quiet week. I went to see Isabel Allende on Monday night and got her newest book:

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, ZaritÉ — known as TÉtÉ — is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one [...]

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So in preparation for BEA, I thought I would try to at least not acquire any more books. I told myself, “No more buying!” Well, that ultimately failed this past week. Here’s what I ordered from bn.com:

Trust Dreams.
Trust your heart,
and trust your story.
A renowned storyteller whose [...]

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So this week’s edition of IMM is a bit bigger than I had originally expected, and part of it can be called “In My Suitcase.” I got back from the TLA conference in San Antonio last Saturday very late at night. So on Sunday I was [...]