Recently Purchased/Borrowed

[pontalba]

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre
The Private Patient by P.D. James
The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer

 

[readsalot]

Listening to High Country by Nevada Barr

 

[shadforth]

Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy
Speak No Evil by Martyn Waites
The Railway Excursion by Edward Marston

 

[-Carlos-]

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
John Adams by David McCullough

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[Libra]

Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy
Speak No Evil by Martyn Waites
The Railway Excursion by Edward Marston

The poet?

 

[Peder]

South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman
Beckett's Dying Words by Christopher Ricks

 

[lenny nero]

Magic Terror ~ Peter Straub

 

[HGT_Fan]

YA Fiction
-The Hunger Games
-Catching Fire

Waiting for the release of Mockingjay

 

[shadforth]

The poet?

Yeah,Libra,it's a 1974 hardback ex library edition in VG condition which I got for 50p at the market! It's an in depth biography of Owen and his family pre/during WW1.


In Durham today which had med temps of 27C I bought:

The Rapture by Liz Jensen
Souls of Angels by Thomas Eidson
Oath Breaker by Michelle Paver
Order Of The Wolf by Shawn W.Salzman
This Side Of Brightness by Colm McCann

Not sure 'bout the last one. Enjoyed supping cider in the sun too!

 

[-Carlos-]

Euripides: Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles by Euripides
Short Fiction of the Masters by Leo Hamalian (Editor)

The authors included in the latter:

Honoréde Balzac
Nathanie Hawthorne
Ivan Turgenev
Feodor Dostoyevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Machado de Assis
Giovanni Verga
Henry James
Guy de Maupassant
Joseph Conrad
Sholom Aleichem
Anton Chekhov
Miquel de Unamuno y Jugo
Luigi Pirandello
Maxim Gorki
Marcel Proust
Thomas Mann
Hermann Hesse
Robert Musil
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
D.H. Lawrence
Par Lagerkvist
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Isaac Babel
Ernest Hemingway
Ignazio Silone
Graham Greene
Jean-Paul Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Alberto Moravia.

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[abecedarian]

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
John Adams by David McCullough

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Mr Abc highly enjoyed John Adams and from the excerpts he shared with me, I'm sure I will too when I can get to it.

 

[-Carlos-]

I'm reading it now and am loving it abecedarian.

 

[SFG75]

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
John Adams by David McCullough

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My breakfast was a cheese quesadilla with tomatoes and eggs.

 

[abecedarian]

My breakfast was a cheese quesadilla with tomatoes and eggs.

Wow, I'm eating breakfast with you and your urchins tomorrow Champ! Sounds great.:lol:

 

[-Carlos-]

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[mrsfabrianni]

Hmmm, don't have a recently purchased, because I am a library user. Recently borrowed would be Sarah's Key by Tatiana Du Rosnay and The Fourth Hand by John Irving.

 

[Libra6Poe]

Last week:
Under the Dome by Stephen King on audio.
Amazing. It kept me company on my four+ hour drive to my parents'.

 

[shadforth]

The Way Of Wyrd by Brian Bates

 

[readsalot]

The Lightning Thief (audio CD) by Rick Riordan.

 

[Peder]

The City and the City - China Mieville