Niantic Book Barn Angela Thirkell Shopping Spree

 

I got a chance to visit the Niantic Book Barn in Niantic, Connecticut, recently. The Book Barn is unique among the bookstores I've visited as being broken up into several stores throughout the town of Niantic. The main store is composed of a house that has several categories of nonfiction, and vast outdoor barns and stalls for fiction- mystery, general fiction, romance, etc. There are several other stores around town that are Book Barn stores that have science fiction, other categories of nonfiction, and even an antique store.

I spent most of my time, and all of my money, in the general fiction section.

I collect Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels; sometimes, I even read them. There are about 21 books in the series and I got a stack of Thirkells years ago at the Montague Book Mill. I was hoping to luck out here on this visit. I was not disappointed. I got all of the Thirkells pictured above, very nearly completing my Barsetshire collection. I think I only need two more now.

Very exciting!

When I'm done with Wheel of Time I'm going to make Barsetshire my next destination.

Massachusetts Vacation Book Haul

So I'm back from two weeks in Massachusetts and here are the books I found on my travels.

-"I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture," by Annie Ernaux from Copper Dog Books in Beverly, Mass.,

 
-The Situation and The Story, by Vivian Gornick, from Porter Square Books in Cambridge,

 
-Ariane, A Russian Girl, by Claude Anet, from Barnes & Noble Burlington, Mass.,

-The Book of Paradise, by Itzik Manger, newly translated from Yiddish, from Belmont Books,

-Yara, by Tamara Faith Berger, from Porter Square Books,

 
-The Shadow Rising, by Robert Jordan, Barnes & Noble, Burlington. This is the fourth book in the Wheel of Time series.

-Menewood, by Nicola Griffith, from Concord Bookshop. This is the sequel to her novel Hild, and I did not know this book existed before I bumped into it, so I'm very very excited about it.

Not pictured: 

-The Fact of a Body, by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, from Mitchell's Book Corner on Nantucket, and  

-I Must Be Dreaming, by Roz Chast from Nantucket Bookworks.  Special shout out to Bookworks for being fun and helping me find the Marzano-Lesnevich book!

Thanks to all the local indies I visited for having the books I want!