It's pretty much a given that whenever I let my History Book Club membership lapse--that is, go for six months without a purchase, usually because I am broke--inevitably they try to lure me back into joining again with offers of cheap books. Come on, you want more books, don't you...? No actually, I don't. I've already got about a million and one of them piled up around my apartment, waiting to be read. We'll give them to you for $1... Well, okay.
See--my willpower? Nonexistent, at least in regards to potentially salacious, gossipy historical nonfiction! Pitiful, I know. To make amends I will forgo crocheting and reruns of Buffy for a few hours this evening and put some serious effort into finishing one of the many books I am in the middle of already...
Oh yes, here is what I ordered: