New Books on the Shelf

I did my editing at Powell’s today, which, needless to say involved the purchase of some books. I got away pretty cheap this time, having retrieved a couple of well-worn paperbacks at low prices. Dune, Frank Herbert’s classic SF novel about the politics of retrieving an all-important commodity from a desert planet, has been calling to me of late for obvious reasons. (I’m sure I read this at some point in the far off past, but as usual my memory is a stranger.) I also picked up Arundhati Roy’s A God of Small Things, mostly on account of A. Roy’s current activism, which I greatly admire.