The Title Alone

Just the title alone makes me want to read this book:

Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People : The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived


But it will be a long while before I get to this title. My 'to-read' pile/stack/shelf keeps growing. This past Saturday I ventured up to Salem, ostensibly to check out the newly remodeled Peabody Essex. But in order to get there, you have to walk past the Derby Square Bookstore..and they were having a store-wide 40% offsale.. and oddly enough by the time we got to the museum it was closed. Ahem.

I did pick up some titles I'd been hankering for - the Derby seems to have a weird knack for stocking exactly what I'm looking for on a particular day. So into the to-read queue went:

The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan - Anthony Brown

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Seamus Heaney (editor/translator)

The Odyssey - Homer, Richard Fagles (translator)

The Company: A Novel of the CIA - Robert Littel

The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson

Just to give you an idea of how far my book-lust has gone, I didn't need copies of either Beowulf or The Odyssey as I've already read both of 'em. I just wanted to read these particular translations.

I'm gonna wind up being that dude with the 'Books For Lodging' Sign.