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I just picked up my requested "The Mystery of the Yellow Room" from my library. I didn't realize it was large print edition (the only one in the system.) I'm starting to think this "large print" idea is pretty good actually. Very easy on the eyes.
 
I worked at library today and picked up Time travellers Wife and a science fiction novel called Ancient Shores. I looked for Edgar Wallace books but they don't have any.
 
Found a new bookstore and picked up a bunch of previously unseen lit-crits:

The Free Indirect Mode, Flaubert and the Poetics of Irony - Vaheed K. Ramazini

The Birth of the Modern Mind - Paul Oppenheimer

Falling Into Theory - David H. Richter

The Art of the Poetic Line - James Longenbach
"Poetry is the sound of language organized in lines."​


Plus, some "people" books:

I Remember, Sketches for an Autobiography - Boris Pasternak

The Two Worlds of Marcel Proust - Harold March

The Dreyfus Affair, J' Accuse and Other Writings - Emile Zola, Ed. by Alain Pages, Trans. by Eleanor Leviwux


and an irresistible:

Collected Poems - Sylvia Plath
 
Borderline-Nevada Barr
The Complete Novels-Jane Austen(so I can read Persuasion)
Street of Lost Footsteps-Lyonel Troulliot
 
St. Petersburg by Andrey Biely
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
The Achievement of William Faulkner by Michael Millgate
Soldier's Pay by William Faulkner
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
The Malcontents The Best Bitter Cynical and Satirical Writing in the World by Joe Queenan
 
Fiction:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Invisible Cities by by Italo Calvino

Non Fiction:

Nano by Ed Regis
A History of God by Karen Armstrong
 
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

I got this used copy from the library. (Not borrowed but found in a stack of donated books behind the library.)
 
The Demon Haunted World; Carl Sagan
The Autobiography of William Allen White; WAW
The Origin of minds; Peggy La Cerra
Remembering Denny; Calvin Trillin
Robert's Rules of Order Revised;
The Four Agreements; Don Miguel Ruiz

And a book for some of my students to peruse:

Teen Ink: Our voices, our visions; Stephanie Meyer
 
Sofi Oksanen - Purge (Finland)
Fareed Zakaria - The Post-American World (USA)
Javier Marías - All Souls (Spain)
Indra Sinha - Animal's People (India)
Terry Pratchett - Small Gods (UK)
Eric Flint - 1632 (USA)
Allan Klynne - Kleopatra: Liv och legend (Sweden)
 
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
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That is an excellent book. You will definitely love the history of the various monastic clans and events. For about a week, I became obsessed with the cadaver synod mentioned in the book. It was lively trial.:whistling:
 
Fury/Blown Away both by G.M Ford
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
On Green Dolphin Street by Sebastian Faulks

In Durham today.
 
2 Books by the Same Author

I recently purchased two books by the same author--Rusty McClure.
One is a novel called Cincinnatus: The Secret Plot to Save America.

It was a really good page turner involving the paranormal, a secretive historical society, fixing PGA golf tournaments, lost loves and the classic cross country race against time. Really good read.

The same author also has a companion non-fiction piece about Coral Castle, this place down in South Florida that was built by one man out of 1100 tons of coral rock. No one really knows how he did it--some say he harnessed the powers of anit-gravity. He has a real paranormal following. Anyway, the book is called: Coral Castle: The Mystery Behind Ed Leedskalnin and His American Stonehenge.

It covers all the theories about how this guy built Coral Castle.

Very interesting stuff.
 
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