Rare Book Pox

I too am afflicted with this incurable malady. But my acquisitions were different from jducoeur's. When we were at Isaiah Thomas Books on Sunday, I bought:

Marriage and Family in the Middle Ages, by Frances and Joseph Gies. Popular social history.

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Cardamom and Coriander: A Celebration of Indian Cooking, by Simon Morris. Signed copy.

Wines & Beers of Old New England, A How-To-Do-It History, by Sanborn Brown. Period and not-too postperiod techniques.

The Chessboard Queen, by Sharan Newman. Vol 2 of her Guinevere series.

The Inevitable Guest: A Survival Guide to Being Company and Having Company on Cape Cod, by Marcia Monbleau. Funny enough that I was snickering as I leafed through it. New.

Mama Makes Up Her Mind, and Other Dangers of Southern Living, by Bailey White.

Science Fiction Writers of America Handbook: The Professional Writer's Guide to Writing Professionally, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. 1990 edition but fascinating anyway.

The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, by Karen E. Gordon.

The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists, by Arthur Plotnik. A sibling of The Elements of Style, which I have owned for ages.

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and Hornblower and the Hotspur, both by C.S. Forester. About time I read the classics, isn't it, given how much I enjoy Master & Commander, and Honor Harrington?

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14. The Cold Equations, by Tom Godwin.
(Hi tiellan!) More noble heroic brilliant (white, American) males.
Actually turned in 6/15 but I'm behind on LJ again.

Edit: To those of you (below) who've asked -- it's an anthology of Godwin stories, the centerpiece of which is the tragic story you're thinking of.