the results of a rampage

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I went to the Harvard Bookstore warehouse sale and acquired $75 worth of books.

These include:

For myself

How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit, by Witold Rybczynski 

For my dad (Christmas presents, now settled!)

The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb
Beyond: Our Future in Space, by Chris Impey
Incredible Stories from Space, edited by Nancy Atkinson
Into the Ruin of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia, by Ronald H. Spector

For my maternal grandmother

Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren (it has plants! she likes plants! and I loved this book)

For my friend

Peacock & Vine: On William Morris and Mariano Fortuny, by A.S. Byatt

For my other friend

The Givennes of Things: Essays, by Marilynne Robinson

For a different friend

Lettering & Type: Creating Letters & Designing Typefaces, by Bruce Willen & Nolen Strals

For my niece, possibly next Christmas? (let's be real it will be this Christmas I have no ability to keep stuff back)

Drummer Hoff, adapted by Barbara Emberley and illustrated by Ed Emberley
The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney

SO.