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Maria Regina said:
Oh, I walked into my local Angus & Robertson bookstore, walked up to the counter and said: "I need new books. I have a hundred dollar budget as of this moment and I have absolutely no idea what to get."
Turns out the person didn't work there and was a workman installing new shelves so I
had to repeat that wonderful speech of mine.

I'd ended up buying a whole paperback compilation of the Chronicles of Narnia. All seven (or is it eight?) stories in one!

I haven't read it yet.

I also bought all the classic titles, or at least I think it's all classic.

Treasure Island
Pollyana (or something of the sort)
Secret Garden (I'm sure of that title)
Anne of Green Gables (now I'm sure THAT'S a classic, it is... right?)

I think some more, but the names escape me.

Ahh, before you laugh, they were on sale! SALE!!! Book sales are the only sales I fall to.

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Yes, those last four are classics. Sounds like you did well. If I walked into the bookstore with $100 I wouldn't be sure what to get either. :p
 
Have just returned from a charity shoppig spree. Picked up 5 books in Barnardo's - Any Human Heart by William Boyd (have never read any of his, though this makes no. 4 in the tbr pile), The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble (again have never read and already have 2 more in the tbr pile), The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (no. 3 in tbr), After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard and The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies - have just realised that this is part 3 of a trilogy. Anyway they cost me, along with 3 kids books and a video, the grand sum of 3 euro.

Then headed for Oxfam where I got Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres and a pile of kids books, including a lovely edition of Oscar Wilde's childrens stories all for 15 euro.
 
Started reading, and first bought in 2003 and ONLY getting around to it now :eek:, a none Dr. Delaware novel from 2003.
Called The Conspiracy Club.
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Which I got a flithy look from my TBRPile I can tell you.! Knowin' me, I'll probably get around to it in a few years time.! ;) :eek: LOL.
 
I hit a few yard sales today looking for football cards. I only found a couple of good cards. However, I got the following for $4.50:
Jude the Obscure -Thomas Hardy
The Kite Runner -Khaled Hosseini
Anna Karenina -Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield -Charles Dickens
Candide -Voltaire
Dubliners -James Joyce
Le Morte D'Arthur -Sir Thomas Malory
Moll Flanders -Daniel DeFoe
Gulliver's Travels -Jonathan Swift
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft -Claire Tomalin
The Bacchae and Other Plays -Euripides

Yard sales rock!
 
I just got a few weeks ago
Killer dreams - iris johansen
Prey - michael crichton
A case of need - michael crichton
Plum Lucky - janet evanovich

all from the salvation army 25 cents each
 
I just went to Borders a couple of days ago and bought

The Pickwick Papers: Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde
 
First bought some years back and like the Kellerman book, just getting around
to it now my TBRPile is very pleased :)
Started on this little beauty....DO NOT DISTURB (please).
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King Lear.

Talked about it briefly yesterday at work, so it was on my mind. On the walk to the subway, I had an urge to read certain passages right then. I stopped and picked up a paperback copy (though I have several fancy editions of Shakespeare at home), then I was reading it on the subway and almost crying. :eek: :rolleyes:
 
Eva said:
King Lear.

Talked about it briefly yesterday at work, so it was on my mind. On the walk to the subway, I had an urge to read certain passages right then. I stopped and picked up a paperback copy (though I have several fancy editions of Shakespeare at home), then I was reading it on the subway and almost crying. :eek: :rolleyes:
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There are good reasons a work gets labeled a 'classic.' :)
 
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