Trawling Through The Thrift Stores with Joseph Finn

 Happy Thursday, everyone!  It's a bit of a weird week here in the States as we wait for the election results, but let's take a few moments out of the day and look at what I found while going through the thrift stores, Little Free Libraries and the like.

Sadly, I didn't find this before Halloween last week.  It's weird, really, that somehow this is a Stephen King adaptation that I simply have never seen.  (And I have seen multiple entries in the Sometimes They Come Back series.).   Sadly, this wasn't the full Shout! Factory edition, but a two pack without the special features, coupled with Carrie.   But still, now I have this and finally get around to seeing it soon.

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Speaking of Stephen King, once in a while he'll put out a novella, often something that's not what you might think of as his usual style (for instance, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon).  Elevation definitely fits into this mode and it's a lovely, sad tale of a man who literally keeps losing weight but not mass.  It is absolutely one of my favorites of his recent works and one you should check out.

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An anthology of humorists like Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, Emily Kimbrough and Margaret Halsey writing about a lovely country?  Hell yes, please and thank you.   This is completely new to me but absolute catnip.  (And makes me think it's time for a re-read of The Innocents Abroad, which I think gets a little glossed over in Twain's bibliography.)

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Is T.C, Boyle maybe the finest living US author?   He's definitely way up there and thankfully this one is new to me so I get to read it for the first time.  It definitely looks of a piece with this usual interest in environmental catastrophe and how the US responds to things.  Also, if you've never seen T.C. Boyle's author photo, the man has one of the best beards in the business.  

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Madeline L'Engle is an author that I really should have read more of.  At this point, I've pretty much only read her Wrinkle In Time series.   So, this helps me start on fixing this.  I don't think thus series is science fiction or fantasy but I'm sure it still has her lovely, lovely language.  (And her trademark humanism; I never shared L'Engle's faith, but I certainly appreciated how well she expressed that faith and her optimism for humanity.)