It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book.

However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by , the lady who was hosting the reading I participated in this past Saturday at the Wayward. I wanted to get it not only to support her, but also because is in it, and I’d seen him posting about it before!

Meanwhile, here’s another drop of freebies from B&N, as this week’s round of free classics has made it into my Calibre install:

• Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
• Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf
• The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
• Nana, by Emile Zola
• Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
• O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
• The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
• Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
• Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
• Daisy Miller and Washington Square, by Henry James

Note: Vanity Fair‘s PDB file is 7.5MB?! Whoa.

Also picked this up since it showed up on B&N’s freebie queue:

• Marked, by Elisabeth Naughton. Paranormal Romance.

This brings me up to a grand total of 247 for the year!