I Do My Part

With the boys I wandered Borders' carcass in Palo Alto this afternoon. Most of the bookshelves were bare, although, curiously, the Romance section appeared to be over-stacked; the Crime section, too. Philosophy was gutted. There were no children's books left. I couldn't find Poetry.

At 70% off I bought:

• Hygiene and the Assassin, by Amélie Nothomb
• The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds
• One More Story: Thirteen Stories in the Time-Honored Mode, by Ingo Schulze
• Mourning Diary, by Roland Barthes 
• The Insufferable Guacho, by Roberto Bolaño
• Remainder, by Tom McCarthy

Reviews forthcoming, perhaps, weeks, months, years from now.