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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

I just ordered...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The World According To Garp (John Irving)
The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
A Little Stranger (Kate Pullinger)
Saturday (Ian McEwan)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)

I don't know whether to be ecstatic or cut up my credit card :confused: :confused: :D
 
I received another book as part of a bookring - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. I'm really looking forward to reading this one :)
 
Only a few hours after joining readitswapit I have already agreed to swap...

Time of Arrival by Sallis for The Gift by Nabokov :)
Dirty Havana Trilogy by Guteirrez for Lucky by Sebold
Round Ireland With a Fridge by Hawks for The Alchemist by Coelho
My Sister's Keeper by Picoult for Notes on a Scandal by Heller
Velocity by Koontz for The Virgin Suicides by Eugenides

:D :D
 
I want to read the series so that I can discuss it with my LKH forum buddies:

A Caress of Twilight - Laurell K. Hamilton
 
I got one of my orders from Amazon today!

It included:
Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
Banewreaker - Jacqueline Carey
The Tower of Ravens - Kate Forsyth
The Innocent - Posie Graeme-Evans
 
I've not been keeping up to date with this thread. Here's my list of books I've bought this year:

40. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera
39. Immortality, Milan Kundera
38. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
37. Animal Farm, George Orwell
36. Poet In New York, Federico Garcia Lorca
35. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
34. The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
33. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
32. Cup Of Gold, John Steinbeck
31. The Winter Of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck
30. The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck
29. The Book of Evidence, John Banville
28. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
27. Cider With Rosie, Laurie Lee
26. The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
25. Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
24. Some Hope - A Trilogy, Edward St. Aubyn
23. The Bandini Quartet, John Fante
22. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
21. Zadie Smith, White Teeth
20. The Plague, Albert Camus
19. The Outsider, Albert Camus
18. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
17. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
15. Postcards, Annie Proulx
14. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
13. Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
12. The Pearl, John Steinbeck
11. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
10. The Long Valley, John Steinbeck
09. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
08. The Wayward Bus, John Steinbeck
07. Young Hearts Crying, Richard Yates
06. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
05. Cold Spring Harbor, Richard Yates
04. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
03. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
02. The Blue Afterboon, William Boyd
01. Snow, Orhan Pamuk​
 
Here's what I picked up at the library this afternoon:

Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World-Bernice Willson (school)
Perfume-Patrick Suskind( sale cart)
Dirt Music-Tim Winton
The 100 Best Films to Rent You've Never Heard of-David Meyer
Microsoft Office Front Page 2003-David Plotkin (for dh)
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
A Year of Reading-Elisabeth Ellington

Gotta go, gotta read!
 
abecedarian said:
Here's what I picked up at the library this afternoon:

Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World-Bernice Willson (school)
Perfume-Patrick Suskind( sale cart)
Dirt Music-Tim Winton
The 100 Best Films to Rent You've Never Heard of-David Meyer
Microsoft Office Front Page 2003-David Plotkin (for dh)
Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro
A Year of Reading-Elisabeth Ellington

Gotta go, gotta read!
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Wow! Not only have I heard of some of those, but I've even read 2 of them! :eek: :eek: :D
 
Stewart said:
Whoops. Updated list can be viewed here. I suppose I'll need to buy another one to replace the book I never had. :D
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That would be my solution :D Just so you resist the temptation to buy the latest Dan Brown;)
 
Stewart said:
Believe it or not, I wasn't buying books until I got the paperback for Never Let Me Go next week. :eek:
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Sure!! Looks like a good haul anyway. If librarians in Scotland walk out on strike, you're set for a day or two:cool:
 
I've read Never Let Me Go earlier this month, which I didn't think was that special, to be honest, but worth a read for the TBF discussion at least. It was ok, you kinda appreciate it all at the end, but throughout, it gets quite tedious, and the "twists" are those you guessed chapters earlier. The whole story seemed to me, to be aimed at young adult readers, but maybe that was just me. I was still a little disappointed, anyway, after reading The Remains of the Day a while ago, which was much, much superior.

I read Perfume, a while ago, and it was fantastic. In fact, I may hunt it out for a re-read.
 
steffee said:
I've read Never Let Me Go earlier this month, which I didn't think was that special, to be honest, but worth a read for the TBF discussion at least. It was ok, you kinda appreciate it all at the end, but throughout, it gets quite tedious, and the "twists" are those you guessed chapters earlier.
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Aw! I really liked it when I read it last year.

I was still a little disappointed, anyway, after reading The Remains of the Day a while ago, which was much, much superior.
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I think they are two different types of narrator despite the trademark Ishiguro resignation at the end. It was written somewhere that TROTD was the closer to his "confusion trilogy" and NLMG was probably the closer to his "bewilderment" trilogy. So, where Stevens is looking back and deceiving himself that he's been wrong until he finally accepts it, Kathy has always accepted it but has never understood her circumstances.
 
I was shocked to find Perfume on the sale cart. They don't set prices, just accept donations..It had a stamp from the library but it looks brand new. I bet someone donated it, and after stamping it, the library ladies decided it looked too naughty to put on their shelves..
 
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