The accessions department invites anyone seeking a justification for the acquisition of Mike Harrison’s new anti-memoir—in a signed hardback edition, no less—to, and I quote verbatim, “get themselves bloody well looked at”. The department’s position on the Science Fiction and Innovation Design edited volume is rather more professional, to the point of terseness: this is…

The accessions department is far from tireless, but rarely rests. It acquired this copy of the new posthumous Graeber while dropping in at Shakespeare & Sons, an English-language bookshop in Prague, that most literary of cities. Quite why the institution was in Prague is a topic for a later update, perhaps… though it bears noting…

Not done one of these in a while; acquired a few new titles in the interim, but workload throughout the institution has necessitated the, ah, temporary shelving of outreach activities in the accessions division*. Rather than go back and catch up, we’re just picking up from the present moment. So: I’ve never actually read The…

Seem to have done fairly well on the buy-fewer-books goal; more than two months since my last purchase. (This may be closely related to my being way behind on my reading rate compared to this time last year.) But I was passing the Science Fiction Bookstore with L____ yesterday and, well… I think she enabled…