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I went out today and bought The Gunslinger by Stephen King . I have heard a lot of good things about this book and the series and so I can't wait to read it for myself :D
 
Well... the big charity shop freak I am, I am went out and got another load of books...

Hide & Seek - Ian Rankin (£1.00)
Memnoch The Devil - Anne Rice (£1.00)
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (£1.25)
Shade's Children - Garth Nix (£1.29)
Kept In The Dark - Nina Bawden (£1.00)
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe - Douglas Adams (£0.49 - couldn't resist...)

And finally I treated myself to a NEW book:

Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix (£5.99... or a £5 gift voucher and £0.99 :D)

Again... pleased with myself. :rolleyes:
 
Today I picked up these books used:

Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
IT by Stephen King

I also picked up a new copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. Not likely to find a book like that used.

I wasn't gonna pick up IT because it's not a high priority on my books to read list but inside somebody had left behind what they were using as a bookmark. It was a card that would come with a bouqet of flowers, in fact the back of the card was stamped with a florists address. It convinced me I should buy the book and it went like this:

Printed on the card was 'you've captured my heart'. Written beside this was

'Along with lots of other vital organs.

- Your Square Head.'
 
Picked up Point Counter Point by Aldous Huxleyfrom Oxfam the other day. Still on the lookout for a copy of Chrome Yellow though.
 
Just been on my lunch break and succumbed to buying new books for a change. After posting in the Dostoyevsky thread earlier I picked up The Double. Also picked up The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse as well.
 
Went a bit mad with my as-yet-unreceived wages yesterday. Whoops.
Atomised, Michel Houellebecq
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Making History, Stephen Fry
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
Ship of Destiny, Robin Hobb
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
What is Literature?, Sartre
Flashman, George Macdonald Fraser
 
I purchased Blindness by Jose Saramago and Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden today. I really can't wait to read Blindness... I've heard a lot of good things about it.
 
Recently purchased:

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (SC)
Incredibly Loud & Extremely Close - Foer (HC)
Make Love!* *The Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell (HC)
Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov (sp?) (SC)
Kubrick: The Definitive Edition -- Michel Ciment (SC)
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (HC) :D

I look forward to ALOT of reading

-JH
 
I got these from local library this week:

Serpent and the Moon - Princess Michael of Kent
Katharine the Great - Darwin Porter
The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
Catherine DeMedici - Leonie Frieda
The Way We Lived Then - Dominick Dunne
 
I bought these recently:

Eleven on Top - Evanovich
Rage - Jonathan Kellerman
Devil's Court - Lisa Scottoline
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince
 
'OUTLANDER ' Diana Gabaldon

' DRAGONFLY IN AMBER' Diana Gabaldon

Got them both in Swift Shop for £2.75p :D
 
I noticed several people bought The Lovely Bones. What did you all think of it? I loved how it was narrated from heaven. It was nice to read something with a different style.
 
From Charity shop.....

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time by Mark Haddon
 
Just bought The Faraway Tree collection, The Wishing Chair collection and The Call of the Wild from Amazon.

Reliving a few childhood memories.
 
Ai Confini Del Mare (The Far Side of the World) by Patrick O'Brian

An interesting challenge - expect me to be up to speed on all things nautical in Italian any day now....
 
Earthly Joys- Philippa Gregory
The Forest Lover- Philippa Gregory
Shoot the Moon- Billie Letts
Falling Angels- Tracey Chevalier
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- J.K. Rowling
The Lady and Unicorn- Tracey Chevalier
 
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