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Today was a book day.

Around noon, I went to the library, but then decided to head down to the bookshop below the library and get a few books. After all, I had about $33, and the most you ever have to pay for a book is $3 per hardcover, so... no book lover can pass that up.

At the library, I got the following:

Dust by Elizabeth Bear
All the Windwracked Stars by Elizabeth Bear
Murder of Angels by Caitlin R. Kiernan
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

I started Dust first. I love it so far, although there are a few little bits of it that I don't necessarily approve of (even though that's not quite correct wording, because I like that part, it's just something a little strange). Other than that, though, it's good and certainly keeps my interest. Judging by how quickly I've been reading it, I'll probably have it finished by Sunday or Monday. And then I'll move onto my library books and then, if I have time before I have to send them back, I'll start on the big stack of books I bought.

At the bookstop, I bought the following for only $8.50:

The Scourge of God by William Dietrich
What Was She Thinking? by Zoe Heller
God's Politics by Jim Wallis - I took this out from the library, tried finishing it, didn't, and so I decided to buy it once I saw it at the bookstore, just so I'd have a copy. It might come in handy.
Vigil by Robert Masello
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Last Day by Glenn Kleier
Contact by Carl Sagan

It certainly looks as though I'll be building up my library quite quickly, doesn't it? After all, I still have a list of books I want to get the next time I stop in the bookshop. And at fifty cents per paperback, $3 for hardcovers, I can get quite a few books with the money I still have.

Do any of you have opinions on any of the books I bought (or borrowed)? If you do, I'd love to hear them.