Birthday Books

I was lucky to get a great number of books given to me for my birthday. Well, I got the huge Amazon gift card, and did all the choosing myself.

The first book, Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates, arrived yesterday, Since I used about ten different sellers via Amazon, this gift-receiving thing will likely stretch on for another week, maybe longer.

Below is the list of books I ordered on Monday, alphabetical by author:

• The Art of War for Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, and Exercises, James Scott Bell
• The Write Great Fiction Collection Bundle, James Scott Bell, Nancy Kress
•  2011 Writer’s Market Deluxe Edition, Robert Lee Brewer
• Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories About the Men We Used to Love, Harriet Brown, ed.
• Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking, Jo Doezema
• A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
• On Writers and Writing, John Gardner, Charles Johnson
• The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography), Charlotte Perkins Gilman, et al
• The Crux, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Sugarbabe: The Controversial Real Story of a Woman in Search of a Sugar Daddy, Holly Hill
• On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
• The Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel, David Levithan
• Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Flannery O’Connor, et al
• Blonde: A Novel, Joyce Carol Oates
• Rape: A Love Story, Joyce Carol Oates

EDIT: A couple of books, now crossed out on the list, couldn’t be shipped.