Book Haul #1!

If you've read my last 'Progress...' post, you'll have noticed that I had one book on my 'to-read' pile for this month. Well last week my trip to the library corrected that, as did my trip to the works yesterday.

Let's start with the library haul first.

Going clockwise from the top, we have:

'A Wild Sheep Chase' by Haruki Murakami - this will be probably be my last Murakami book this year, I promise! I only picked it up because it's a short read and apparently its a prequel of sorts to 'Dance Dance Dance' which I really enjoyed.

'The Book of Tomorrow' by Cecelia Ahern - a book picked up after reading a review of it...somewhere, I really can't remember where! If I'd actually noted the book down on goodreads I'd remember where I'd heard of it before I saw it on the library shelves. I know Ahern is the author of the bestseller 'P.S. I Love You' but I've never read that since I've never really been into sentimental romance books. This book however seems to be part chick-lit, part magical realism: A young woman born into wealth and privelige finds herself lost after her family has to move away from Dublin to the countryside due to debt. However, when she comes across a travelling library she discovers a leather-bound tome with a golden padlock called 'The Book of Tomorrrow'. With a premise like that, who wouldn't want to know what's inside?

'The Angel's Game' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon...yes, you can tell this post is rather overdue given that I've read and reviewed this book last time!

'The Last Caesar' by Henry Venmore Roland. Picked this up after a glowing recommendation from the book blog 'Medieval Bookworm' (read the review here.) It's another novel set during the Roman Empire but focuses on a period known as the Year of the Four Emperors- a time where four guys squabbled and fought to become Caesar after Nero's death. As a classicist, I've never studied this period in much detail (more like I studied up to it), so it should prove an interesting read.

Will update on the book purchases soon!