Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Wallace Stevens and the Seasons by George S. Lensing

The Bhagavad-Gita - Ramananda Prasad's translation

Tom Adelman: "Black & Blue: The Golden Arm, Robinson Boys, & the 1966 World Series That Stunned America" (Little Brown)

Don Yaeger, Sam "The Bam" Cunningham, & John Papadakis: "Turning the Tide: How One Game Changed the South"

Nice pickup Blossom, The Bhagavad Gita is one of the best collection of scripture in history and a recommend for anyone interested in Hinduism

Jack McCallum: Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns (Simon & Schuster)

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Originally posted by Mike:
Nice pickup Blossom, The Bhagavad Gita is one of the best collection of scripture in history and a recommend for anyone interested in Hinduism

Yes indeed, Mike. I have many different translations of the Gita at home, and always carry a small paperback copy of the Prabhavananda/Isherwood translation with me wherever I go. Paramahansa Yogananda's masterful two-volume translation and commentary (God Talks With Arjuna) is a very treasured part of my book collection.

The Autobiography of Donovan: The Hurdy Gurdy Man - by Donovan Leitch

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles - by Geoff Emerick & Howard Massey

Matisse, His Art and His Textiles - by Ann Dumas, Jack Flam, & Remi Labrusse

Today I bought The Wicked Pavillion by Dawn Powell; I was very excited to find it at the Barnes and Nobles. I also got Naked Lunch, nothing out there. Then I got my mom to buy me a pocket dictionary, which I, again, was excited about. It took me forever to find the section where they stashed all of the dictionaries though.

The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation (Angel Flores, Editor)

Louis Armstrong's New Orleans - by Thomas Brothers

Dance Was Her Religion: The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham - by Janet Lynn Roseman

(With thanks to my mom for the gift card. )

I ordered a few more Freddy the Pig series books. They're for young kids but much fun for adults, too.

Plus, since I've been watching more werewolf films lately, I picked up some werewolf books through amazon marketplace. The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within deals with the creature in myth & legend as well as Hollywood. Ultimate Werewolf is a collection of short stories on the subject. Wolf Moon is written by one of my favorite authors, Charles de Lint. Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn is the second in a series about a she-wolf who's also a DJ. Ivy Cole and the Moon from Gina Farago is described as 'Flannery O'Connor meets The Howling', hmmmm, have to read it first before I believe that.

Just today I saw an ad in the "Voice" for Bob Spitz' bio on the Beatles for $9, tax included. I remember reading the review of the tome -- it runs FOR 860 pages plus extensive footnotes and index. It was a hardcover copy too.

I picked up a bargain hardcover copy of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco the other day. Supposedly, this is his last novel.

You know, I enjoyed Flame Queen, but thought it wasn't as immediately universal as some of his other work. It seems very specific to a time and place, and suspect it really resonates with Italians who grew up during the era of Mussolini. I can see how it would be very meaningful to Eco, as well. It seems a very personal work.

Still Foucault's Pendulum, and the Name of the Rose remain my favorites, closely followed by Baudolino.