Last book you bought? and why?

[rjk]

*Originally posted by racinchikki *
**Wow, look at my coding. I keep switching between here and LiveJournal and forgetting to change coding protocol.

The series is Master and Commander; Post Captain; HMS Surprise; The Mauritius Command; Desolation Island; The Fortune of War; The Surgeon’s Mate; The Ionian Mission; Treason’s Harbor; The Far Side of the World (which is the other book the movie was based on); The Reverse of the Medal; The Letter of Marque; The Thirteen-Gun Salute; The Nutmeg of Consolation; The Truelove (which was called Clarissa Oakes in England IIRC); The Wine-Dark Sea; The Commodore; The Yellow Admiral.

I don’t have that memorized, by the way; I looked it up in the frontispiece of my copy of M&C. **

Your copy is missing the last two: The Hundred Days and Blue at the Mizzen.

My last purchase was Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster by Melissa Fay Greene. Springhill, in Nova Scotia, was one of the deepest coal mines in the world until it had a major collapse in 1958. It was right there in the remainder bin, so how could I pass up such a piece of Canadian history?