Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month

It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book.

However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by jennifer_brozek, the lady who was hosting the reading I participated in this past Saturday at the Wayward. I wanted to get it not only to support her, but also because jpsorrow is in it, and I’d seen him posting about it before!

Meanwhile, here’s another drop of freebies from B&N, as this week’s round of free classics has made it into my Calibre install:

• Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf
• The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
• Nana, by Emile Zola
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
• Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
• Daisy Miller and Washington Square, by Henry James

Note: Vanity Fair‘s PDB file is 7.5MB?! Whoa.

Also picked this up since it showed up on B&N’s freebie queue:

• Marked, by Elisabeth Naughton. Paranormal Romance.

This brings me up to a grand total of 247 for the year!