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What's On Your Nightstand: A Semi-Regular Feature
May 7, 2007

I usually post this nightstand feature on Thursdays or Fridays, since weekends are the time when most of us can afford to indulge our passion for reading.

However, this past weekend I was able to indulge a passion I don't have enought time for: shopping for books. I'll share a few of my purchases here (if I shared them all you might be forced to either report me to some appropriate twelve-step program for biblioholics or to come steal some from my study). I look forward to hearing about what you're reading, too -- I always get more ideas from you...

First I hit the mystery shelves:

An author blurbed by Ruth Rendell? A no-brainer for me...

And THEN a blurb from P.D. James? Look, I'm fully aware of logrolling, but I still couldn't resist.

On to Fiction:

I've been meaning to read Meloy's latest for far too long. I love the fact that it starts with a seven-year-old trapped indoors with chicken pox... that seems so nostalgic, somehow, in these days of the chicken-pox vaccine (the other day, my daughter asked wistfully when she would get the chicken pox and get to stay home... no such luck, I'm afraid... ).

A brief stop in Essays:

The Revolution Will Be Accessorized: BlackBook Presents Dispatches from the New Countercutlure includes pieces by Augusten Burroughs, Chuck Palahniuk, Jonathan Ames, Douglas Copeland, Meghan Daum,  Dana Vachon... why, it's like a GawkerFest!

Also:

A civilized tonic to last week's book review rage.

Finally, a stop at the New In... tables. I'm a sucker for those.

I'll read anything Elinor Lipman writes. Yes, even a grocery list. (She'd definitely have Cafe de Bustelo and dark chocolate on there.) And she may claim that my alma mater bears no resemblance to the small women's college she's writing about in this book, but we'll see.

Finally:

For the title alone.

What's on your nightstand?

Posted by Bethanne Patrick on May 7, 2007 | Comments (3)