Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[-Carlos-]

Understanding Fiction by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren (nonfiction)
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
A pair of Sparknotes on Earnest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms.

 

[Landslide]

Dearly Devoted Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay
Remember Me, by Lesley Pearse

 

[Stewart]

Some recent purchases from the last week or so:

Two copies of James Kelman's Kieron Smith, Boy
Beijing Coma, Ma Jian
This Is The Life and The Breezes by Joseph O'Neill
Ghosts, Cesar Aira
The Lucky Country, Donald Horne
Hiroshima, John Hersey
Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
Briar Rose, Robert Coover
Pinocchio, Carlo Colludi
Post Office, Charles Bukowski

I've got a bunch of other stuff that's arrived too, most of which I can't remember the names of. But, oh, to have the time to finally read once more!

 

[abecedarian]

Some recent purchases from the last week or so:

Two copies of James Kelman's Kieron Smith, Boy
Beijing Coma, Ma Jian
This Is The Life and The Breezes by Joseph O'Neill
Ghosts, Cesar Aira
The Lucky Country, Donald Horne
Hiroshima, John Hersey
Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
Briar Rose, Robert Coover
Pinocchio, Carlo Colludi
Post Office, Charles Bukowski

I've got a bunch of other stuff that's arrived too, most of which I can't remember the names of. But, oh, to have the time to finally read once more!

Nice catch, but why did you buy two copies of the Kelman book?

 

[Stewart]

Nice catch, but why did you buy two copies of the Kelman book?

One for me, one for a future plan.

 

[abecedarian]

One for me, one for a future plan.

Really? Do tell
We sometimes buy extra copies of a favorite book for gifts. In fact, I really need to purchase a cookbook for an upcoming bridal shower...

 

[Stewart]

Really? Do tell
We sometimes buy extra copies of a favorite book for gifts.

Gifts, yes. That's what it is.

 

[abecedarian]

Gifts, yes. That's what it is.

Yessssss?!? Go ahead. Spill. Inquiring minds, and all...:whistling:

 

[shadforth]

Crooked Tree by Robert Charles Wilson
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque

 

[-Carlos-]

Thrift shop...1 buck each:

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (hardback)

Both are in mint condition. I can't be happier.

 

[The X]

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Babylon Rising by Tim Lahaye

 

[Disenthral]

The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
VALIS - Philip K dick
Slatewiper - Lewis Perdue

 

[The X]

The Lightning Theif by Rick Riordan
The Dangerous Days of DanielX by James Patterson

 

[Landslide]

Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Tipping the Velvet -- Sarah Waters
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole
The Master and the Margarita -- Mikhail Bulgakov

 

[-Carlos-]

Good books MonkeyCatcher!

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

Good books MonkeyCatcher!

I hope so! I think I'll start Tipping the Velvet tonight, and I'll read A Confederacy of Dunces after that I think - I've been searching for that book for years.

 

[Peder]

Shenandoah Valley Memories of the War Between the States - James C. Holland

The Endless War - James Pinckney Harrison

Hide My Eyes - Margery Allingham

 

[Peder]

And one more, :whistling:

The Mission Song - John LeCarré

 

[Robert]

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction