Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[Isabell]

Oh no you won't!

Why not?

 

[sparkchaser]

Why not?

Because.

 

[Isabell]

Because.

Because is not an answer, it's the beginning of an answer.....

 

[sparkchaser]

Did you d/l it?

 

[Isabell]

Did you d/l it?

Not yet, but I will tonight. And I'll still get it before Lenny.

 

[sparkchaser]

Not yet, but I will tonight. And I'll still get it before Lenny.

See? I was right. You didn't download it in a few minutes.

So neener to you.

 

[saliotthomas]

get a room

 

[-Carlos-]

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[Isabell]

get a room

oh, no....I like the attention

 

[saliotthomas]

oh, no....I like the attention

 

[pontalba]

Managed a run to the second hand book store...

Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Candide by Voltaire
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

 

[letterHead]

A fistfull of well read cancelled library books and a marked down copy of 'It Ain't Necessarily So . . . Bro' by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.

 

[angerball]

Blindness by Jose Saramago arrived today.

I also went to the library and borrowed:

Solar Lottery - Philip K. Dick
The World Jones Made - Philip K. Dick
The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak.

I also nearly borrowed Seeing by Jose Saramago, The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, and one of David Mitchell's (Cloud Atlas, or another - I just can't decide which one to start off with).

 

[jenmcd]

Have just been to a summer fete at my mother's church and came back with the following:

The Play Room - Olivia Manning
Two Days in Aragon - MJ Farrell (Molly Keane)
Tomorrow - Graham Swift
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
Every Move You Make - Alison Fell

 

[Libra]

Uncle Tom's Cabin


Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte

Inkheart-Cornelia Funke for my daughter

The Secret Map also for the young one.

 

[Peder]

Just one: Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marais.

 

[Sofia]

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

cool. I just picked this up the other day.

 

[SFG75]

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak.

This is an outstanding book! My girls read it as part of the One book for Nebraska teens reading selection. This has been one of the more popular books with my kids.

 

[-Carlos-]

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by X.J. Kennedy
Mythology by Edith Hamilton



Can you tell that I'm getting into Mythology?

 

[Maizee]

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

My Left Foot (autobiography) by Christy Brown - One of my sons has Cerebral Palsy and I thought it would give me some more insight into what it is like to have your mind live inside a body that is so physically restricted--as it was for Christy Brown.