Friday Finds! What I Found at the Bookstore This Week

Coronation Summer, by Angela Thirkell, came from a pile at work. I'm a big Thirkell fan and was delighted to find one of her books in the stacks.

An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori is a European novel that came for review from NYRB Classics. From the NYRB website:

Set just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire, determined to defend the virtue of his cheating wife at any cost. Rezzori surrounds Tildy with a host of fantastic characters, engaging us in a kaleidoscopic experience of a city where nothing is as it appears.

I picked up Sarah Waters' Fingersmith after asking some pals for recommendations for good, recent LGBT-themed books. This one looks right up my alley, a Victorian mystery set in England.

I'm curious about the graphic novel adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, so I picked it up at work.

Little, Big, by John Crowley, was another recommendation, this time from Nymeth of Things Mean A Lot. She thought I might like it since I liked The Prestige. The publisher says:

Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in -- and how it is to end.

Have you read any of these? What did you think? What's new on your shelf this week?

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