- Geschiedenis van het lachen in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, zestiende en zeventiende eeuw (“The history of laughter in the Southern Lowlands [that is, I think, what’s now the south of the Netherlands and Belgium], sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”). A prodigious work of scholarship, 245 pages plus references. I foresee it will be a frequently-consulted reference work. (Seriously: it’s got a lovely design, which is what sold me on it in the end, but I suspect I’m just going to dip into it and crack up. Sample chapter and section titles: “Historische antropologie van het lachen”; “Een Leeuvense zot”; “Fysiognomie van het lachen: Vouwtjes naar de oren toe”; “Het traktaat over de lach van Laurent Joubert”… heerlijk!) Boekenmarkt Spui, naturally.
- Catch-22, Joseph Hellers masterpiece (Boekenmarkt Spui). I actually bought this as a graduation gift, but it turned out the recipient already owned it. Not that I’m complaining, mind!
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (proofing-for-books — thanks Trijsje!)
- Nabokov’s Lolita, also from Trijsje. These last two are in exchange for proofing an MA thesis which analyses a science fiction novel in Heideggerian terms. I mention this as evidence that I don’t have to understand the content to proofread the form.