Good news! is coming up to Weston to visit and cook dinner tomorrow night! Hooray! This will be his inaugural visit, so I hope that all goes well. I wish I could say that his coming was inspiring me to clean, but I would be lying.

Randomness: shopping list for used book sales

Samuel Richardson, Pamela
Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Nadine Gordimer, July’s People
V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River
Toni Morrison, Beloved

Samuel Johnson, London, The Vanity of Human Wishes
John Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson
Poems of Wallace Stevens
Derek Walcott, Omeros
Poems of P.K. Page

Susannah Centilivre, The Bassett Table
Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan
Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming