Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Landslide]

Last week I got The Godfather, by Mario Puzo. I didn't actually buy it because it was offered with a magazine. The same magazine will offer more great books in the next weeks for only 1€, so I'll keep posting which ones.

 

[Sybarite]

Piaf: A Passionate Life by David Bret.

So-so.

 

[abecedarian]

This weekend:

• Marcel, Edwin Mortier
• Castorp, Pawel Huelle
• Gregorius, Bengt Ohlsson
• Agamemnon' Daughter, Ismail Kadare
• The Moon Opera, Bi Feiyu
• Let It Be Morning, Sayed Kashua
• Measuring The World, Daniel Kehlmann
• Rivers Of Babylon, Peter Pist'anek
• The Torontonians, Phyllis Brett Young
• Wolf At The Door, Travis Jeppesen

Most are my attempt to read as many of the longlisted titles in the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008, which was announced on Friday.

I think that's it.

I liked Marcel. Looking forward to your take on the rest of the list as well. Now, excuse me while I check out that link

 

[Stewart]

I liked Marcel.

That's encouraging. Apparently his new novel, Shutterspeed, concludes his series of coming-of-age-books, making it an extremely loose four book series. Shutterspeed's the one that's longlisted but I fancied reading all his stuff, so thought I'd just start at the start.

Looking forward to your take on the rest of the list as well.

Well, if it's any good, you'll have a hard time getting Rivers Of Babylon by Peter Pist'anek: it's the second title from a university's Russian department and I had to buy it direct from the editor. It must be a terrible small print run, unless they are doing it print-on-demand.

 

[direstraits]

A Disease of Language by Alan Moore. Unexpected, but rewarding.

ds

 

[deirdre]

My last purchase is Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murikami.

 

[rachael_g]

Today i bought:
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Of Cats and Kings by Clare De Vries
Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson
Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Look No Hands! by Brian Gault & Helena Rogers
Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire

and all for £5.50

and my mum lent me:
A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly

 

[Stewart]

Watch Me Disappear by Jill Dawson

That's a good one. We have a thread on it, although it's only me at the moment.

 

[thebookcrosser]

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Found a few marvelous books in a charity shop. This one, Housekeeping, is a Pen/Hemingway Award winner. I just finished it - just journaled it - here's the link:
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/5818475

I can't believe I have not read this writer's work before now. Have to look for her Gilead now.

 

[thebookcrosser]

I LOVED ballet shoes. I read it when I was about 11. It was one of my favorites.

 

[-Carlos-]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

 

[Landslide]

LA Confidential, by James Ellroy

 

[-Carlos-]

I purchased two classics at B&N. It was a 50% online sale so I had to take advantage of it.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

[Wells83]

I was bad today.

I haven't bought a book in months. I have quite a few books that I haven't read plus I rent books through bookswim, a netflix-like program for books, so I've held off . . . until today.

I bought:

A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Chesnut

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul, by Karen Abbott

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, by John M. Barry

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, by Mary S. Lovell

Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties, by Michael Lesy

Atonement, by Ian McEwan

The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan

Plagues and Peoples, by William H. McNeill

The Women of the House, by Jean Zimmerman

Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870, by Liza Picard

Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle, by Lois W. Banner

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

San Francisco is Burning, by Dennis Smith

 

[Fore Check]

Well, now that I'm working on reading the Dirk Pitt books by Clive Cussler (currently reading Vixen 03), I just put an order in for the next 6 books in the "series" that I don't own yet (Night Probe! is already waiting on the desk):

Deep Six
Cyclops
Treasure
Dragon
Sahara
Inca Gold

 

[-Carlos-]

 

[Samerron]

The Google Story



It grabed my eyes the moment I saw the colorful Google logo
http://www.thegooglestory.com/

 

[CawMeFish]

I just finished Wicked and Life of Pi, both great books! I am now reading Son of a Witch, anyone read that?

 

[BeerWench13]

I have. It's a good read. I didn't think it was as good as Wicked, but that's just my opinion. When I finish the two I'm reading now, I'm moving on to Mirror, Mirror.

 

[CawMeFish]

BeerWench, I have to agree with you thus far into the book with only 6oish pages to go I am still waiting for a major even to occur.

Have you read Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister? I noticed Something Wicked is in your current reads (Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, amazing book!)