the cult of invalidism

It is right now in the divine flow 2:30 PM Friday afternoon. I home from the Friends of the Library used books sale. I left the house this morning around 8:55 AM and got home around 2 o'clock PM. I cataloged the used books I got today into my LibraryThing site. Here is what I got today for our library-

"Sweet Caress" a novel by William Boyd

"All The Sad Young Literary Men" a novel by Keith Gessen

"Blood's A Rover" a novel by James Ellroy

"Paris In The Fifties" memoir by Stanley Karnow

"Just Looking: Essays on Art" by John Updike

"River of The West: Stories From The Columbia" American West by Robert Clark

"Tristes Tropiques" THE COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF THE CLASSIC BY THE DEAN OF STRUCTURAL ANTHOPOLOGY by Claude Levi-Strauss

"Silence" a novel by Shusaku Endo (Translated by William Johnson)

"Tennessee Williams Collected Stories" Introduction By Gore Vidal

"Segu" a novel by Maryse Conde (Translated from the French by Barbara Bray)

"The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov"

"Damage" a novel by Josephine Hart

"A Dangerous Friend" a novel by Ward Just

"American Blood" a novel by James Ellroy

"A View Of The Habour" a novel by Elizabeth Taylor

"The Great Upheaval: America And The Birth Of The Modern World 1788-1800" by Jay Wink

"Ghostwritten" a novel by David Mitchell

"Mara and Dann" An Adventure by Doris Lessing

"They Came Like Swallows" a novel by William Maxwell

"A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain" Stories by Robert Olen Butler

"The Viceroy Of Ouidah" a novel by Bruce Chatwin

"The Forest Lover" a novel by Susan Vreeland

"Over By The River and Other Stories" by William Maxwell

"Stoner" a novel by John Williams

"The Japanese Lover" a novel by Isabel Allende

"Idols Of Perversity: Fantasies Of Feminine Evil In Fin-De-Siecle Culture" by Bram Dijkstra

So the day goes by. I would write more, but I am tired. Existence keeps zooming by!