A good day for books
This morning on The Current there was a piece on Genghis Khan (apparently, it’s actually pronounced something more like CHING-ISS HAWN.) Like the Greeks have done with Alexander for over two thousand years, the Mongols are apparently making Genghis Khan a national symbol and taking pride in some of his accomplishments. One of the guests on the show was Jack Weatherford, the author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. It sounded really interesting, so of course I went looking for it at Chapters before class today.
While I was in the bookstore, I noticed that two authors I like have new books out. Umberto Eco’s new book is The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: an illustrated novel, and it sounds really good. It’s too expensive to buy the hardcover new, though, so I’m going to keep my eye out for it in used bookstores.
Shani Mootoo is a Canadian author. I read her first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, in OAC English and really loved it. Her new book, He Drown She in the Sea, is set in the Caribbean and in Vancouver. I’m excited to read it, but her other book doesn’t seem to show up in used bookstores, so I might have to wait a year for it to come out in paperback and buy it at full price. Sigh.
On a happier note, I found Shauna Singh Baldwin’s Tiger Claw at Eliot’s Bookshop this afternoon, in hardcover, so as soon as I get some time…and finish the other books I’ve already started…and do all my homework…then I can start reading it. Yay!
