Sunday afternoon at Borders, they were running a sale where you can buy two bargain books and get a third for free. I ended up getting two lovely, weighty, art books published by Taschen, one on Picasso and the other on Van Gogh; my third, free book was a complete Shakespeare anthology, published by Collins. I love getting reference books like this. You feel like you’re acquiring an investment, something you’ll keep and treasure.
I’m still about midway through Bel Canto, but I may shelve it for a while. I’m just not engaged in the plot or the characters, I guess. It has an interesting premise–a South American rebel group, attempting to capture the country’s president, crashes a state dinner and takes hostage the entire gathering of international guests, including a renowned soprano, hence the title–but the whole thing seems to drag.