What did YOU buy today? November 2023

Found an ARC left for me in my locker at work:
* The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes (pub 2/24; historical fiction about the family of the painter Gainsborough)

One more ARC, historical fantasy: A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke (pub 4/24).

Hanging out at the FoL sales and found Less is Lost, The Third Nero: A Flavia Albia Novel, The Guest List, and Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten .

Another ARC: The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan (pub 1/24; historical fiction set in WWII Malaysia)

Dropped a bomb today:
* The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods (contemporary fiction w/a twist; the cover & title got me, actually)
* Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars by Helen Fry
* The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading by Andrew Pettegree

And an ARC I requested from a Publishers Weekly e-newsletter arrived unexpectedly today at the bookstore: The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill (pub 3/24; contemporary mystery; I have The Woman in the Library on the TBR mountain range -- again, a sucker for the cover, but I've also heard good reviews of the author's historical mysteries).

Grabbed an ARC of a children's book: Coyote Lost and Found by Dan Gemeinhart (pub 2/24, realistic fiction). I absolutely loved the first book The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise and recommend it left and right.

Update: I finished reading the new Coyote book. LOVED it & passed the ARC on to a coworker.

At another FoL sale Brendan Gill: A New York Life.

Did you read it yet? I just finished it and left a haiku summary. I found it hard to put down. I recently read The Midnight Library and found some similarities... both books about purpose, in a way. (Sorry - answering 2nd comment about A Short Walk Through a Wide World )

>8 shelf-employed: No, not yet. I'm unpredictable. I have read The Midnight Library, though, so I'll keep that in mind.