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Stewart said:
Took me a few minutes, guessing where I'd seen Appolonia's avatar before. Violent Femmes CD?
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Sad to say, I dunno. I found it online and just liked it because it was colorful. I'm simple that way. :)
 
Recent purchases

Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Empress Orchard - Anchee Min
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
If nobody speaks of remarkable things - Jon McGregor
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zazon
Pomegranate Soup - Marsha Mehran
 
My summer-read-pile, recently purchased from www.play.com
(All the books are in English)
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (just started on this one)
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
- Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
 
Well, I'm getting more into philosophy :rolleyes: I got Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by the popular philosopher, Rene Descartes
 
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

two hardcover children's classics by Robert Lawson
Rabbit Hill
The Tough Winter

Love Amazon's used book selections
 
Today I bought some more books. :D I just passed the 200 book mark.

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
Porno - Irvine Welsh
Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
Glue - Irvine Welsh
Ecstasy - Irvine Welsh
The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh

Altogether I spent £9. As you can see I found a load of Irvine Welsh books (this lot completes my collection of his books!), and in my rush to get them all I picked up the Lousie Welsh one, so I'm not sure about that one. :p Has anyone read it?
 
Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry
The Best American Short Stories 2003, edited by Walter Mosley
The Best American Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore
The Best American Short Stories 2005, edited by Michael Chabon
 
The Hotel New Hampshire-John Irving
158-pound marriage-John Irving
A widow for one year-John Irving
A star called Henry - Roddy Doyle
God dies by the Nile - Nawal El Saadawi
The Old Gringo - Carlos Fuentes
Half a life - VS Naipul
 
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
Jujitsu for Christ - Jack Butler
Arrogance - Barbara Scott
Twilight of the Idols & The Anti-Christ - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Koran
Gertrude - Hermann Hesse
Candide - Voltaire
 
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Villette - Charlotte Bronte

I got all four for 7 dollars :D
 
Sellavision - Augusten Burroughs
The Dogs of Babel - Carolyn Parkhurst
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
 
Received these two yesterday as part of a bookring for bookcrossing:

The Return of the Water Spirit-Pepetela (Angola)

The Last Will & Testament of Senhor la Silva Araijo- Germano Almeida (Cape Verde)
 
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