Trawling through the Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn

 Happy Thursday, everyone, and I'm hoping that you're having a pleasant week.  The US general election is ongoing (I voted a week ago) and if you are in the US I hope you already have or are getting ready to vote by Tuesday.  This is an important one  (even more than usual) and it's so important we all vote.  Now on to the random crap I found this week!

Published just over a century ago, in 1919, this is the charming sequel to the wonderful Parnassus On Wheels, wherein Roger Mifflin was running a bookstore in a horse-drawn cart.  I'm an absolute sucker for bookstore novels and these are excellent examples with a good affection for the material and a lovely wit.  It's also a fun look at early-20th-century Brooklyn, with an added bonus of a darn good mystery.

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Like last week, this two items are from an author who is apparently extremely well-regarded but of whom I have almost zero knowledge and definitely I've never read any of his work.  Moravia was an Italian author who was banned under Mussolini and then had great success after WWII and these are going on the TBR for checking out pretty soon.

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How great are movie posters, right, when they're not just digital photography of floating heads arranged by how big the actor/leading role is?  (Love your movies, Marvel, but a ton of your posters are boring as hell.)  This is a really fun presentation of alternate posters for movies, many of them for film festivals or retro showings (Alamo Drafthouse comes up in this a lot), presented by the artists involved and with their thoughts on movie posters.  It's a huge book, showing off the art very nicely and I'm really happy to have this.  I mean, look at this:

Just beautiful, right?