Desired volumes

Bibliomania is such that, even as I wait for a parcel from amazon, I am wanting more. Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife, Jan Morris's South African Winter, which I just discovered in the Faber Finds list, and Anne Landsman's The Devil's Chimney. From reading Landsman's The Rowing Lesson, I have Samantha Weinberg's A Fish Caught in Time, about the coelacanth, waiting on my chest of drawers. A recent addition was Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey (found through the Harvard Crimson) and, on the same spree, A Farewell to Arms. I also yearn for a copy of Moon Country by Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell. My original edition, purchased in Blackwells on my nineteenth birthday, is packed in a box somewhere, perhaps one of those that is threatening to bring down the ceiling of my mother's bathroom.