World Book Day (one meme I didn't skip, so . . .baaaaaaa!)

[sartorias]

The books I'm reading: Open right now, on the desk and around it [not counting the many books going on my Kindle]:

Larry Hammer's One Hundred People, One Poem Each

Melluch's The Ninth Circle

Madame Junot's Memoirs

Empress Josephine,

Burnt Books: Rabbi Nachman of Bratislav and Franz Kafka,

A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,

Swords Around a Throne,

The Eagle in Splendor,Napoleon I and His Court

T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-32,

Costume in Detail, 1730-1930,

Bourrienne's Memoirs,

The Age of Comfort,

The City as a Work of Art,

What People Wore,

Schom's Napoleon Bonaparte,

Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon,

Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789-1804

and my own book Blood Spirits for corrections for mmpb--geez this thing is riddled with errors even worse than usual, sigh.

Books I'm writing: Revenant Eve, Danse La Folie, Dark-side of the Sun (etc)

The book I love the most: Changes hourly

The last book I received as a gift: Christmas, Tina Fey's latest.

The last book I gave as a gift: Two days ago, Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time of Gifts.