He's a Book Fiend!

I've picked up a fair number of new books over the last week- by which I mean, of course, used books. At a new Catholic bookstore in Coquitlam, I picked up Ralph Martin's overview of Catholic eschatology, "Is Jesus Coming Soon?", a old Image paperback biography of St. Jean de Brebeuf, written by Fr. Francis X. Talbot, S.J., and "Praying in the Presence of Our Lord", compiled by Fr. Benedict Groeschel.

Then, on the way to Victoria, I stopped at the Haunted Bookstore in Sidney and bought two Gerald Durrell first editions: "Encounters with Animals" and "The Whispering Land", both published by Rupert Hart-Davis. I also acquired a lovely early Penguin paperback copy of Waugh's "Vile Bodies", a novel by Umberto Eco, a Collected Works of William Shakespeare, Dobree's "Restoration Tragedy", a lovely little edition of The Little Flowers of St. Francis, and a nice CCCB edition of Marialis Cultus, Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Exhortation on devotion to Mary.

So, among all this wonderful new stuff, you might ask, what might he be reading? Well, I'm actually getting started on a copy of Vanity Fair, loaned to me by a friend. Thackeray is thus far endearing himself to me.